Bookwyrm posts

1. I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom

   David Wong, Jason Pargin

   

   a few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

   this is a lot of that

   cw: mens rights nonsense

   my point: so if you feel like you don’t need some old guy rubbing your nose in a “deuteragonist" (I had to look up the word for that) “hey look at this kid who is a twitch streamer who is kinda black pilled, don’t be lame like this”, because you yourself are also over that, maybe skip this one

   Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

2. Mickey7

   Edward Ashton, Simon Saito

   

   picked up after a friend who had already enjoyed it linked x.com/mickey17movie/status/1836197947668860958 in discord, very fun, read it in a few days.

3. Moonbound

   Robin Sloan

   

   p good! kinda Y.A. and a little slow to start but w/e, fun ending

4. Doppelganger

   Naomi Klein

   

   Another one that I waited out thinking “eh, probably great but maybe I’ll pass” and then people I follow just kept citing it months and months later, so onto the pile it went. My first and not last Klein book, about significantly more than I expected.

5. Family Furnishings

   Alice Munro

   

   The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

   Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.