Like it was a hunger games book and that is always a time - my only thought is I wonder if her next book will explore the politics and strategy behindLike it was a hunger games book and that is always a time - my only thought is I wonder if her next book will explore the politics and strategy behind choosing! to be on display in pain - especially in the context of today’s influx of pain on western media and social media outlets as a way to garner sympathy and capital - there is power to pain but I wonder how the immediate capitalization of it (because it is one of the few FEW resources left large swathes of people all around the world) changes your relationship to it and makes you a bit alienated from it ...more
Everything I wanted This is How to Lose the Time War to be and genuinely better - the comparison to Calvino is so true and I hope people who loved InvEverything I wanted This is How to Lose the Time War to be and genuinely better - the comparison to Calvino is so true and I hope people who loved Invisible Cities as much as I did will read this book! I love a love story between a being and a place!...more
Tony…tony…TONY…when I find you�. - reading this book felt exactly like being 15 on the internet reading the most astronomically Shakespearean (derogatTony…tony…TONY…when I find you�. - reading this book felt exactly like being 15 on the internet reading the most astronomically Shakespearean (derogatory) drama play out in tags and reposts while blasting blue light directly into my incredibly impressionable and gooey brain - not necessarily a bad thing because i deeply miss the highs and lows of silently viewing entirely manufactured grievances AND YET reading this book also reminded me of exactly why i’ve lost almost all faith in left organizing and have taken my brittle, broken body directly to local government to find some solace in public service…so…tony you’re a genius and i hate you how dare you be this good at rehashing the scab picking violence of post modern politics and then give me nothing but a meta meta (yes i mean meta twice) rejection letter to cope - SIR I REQUIRE NEXT STEPS - this book has essentially become a sub choker around my neck and i can’t tell if i even want the key to open it so…thanks I GUESS (5/5) ...more
Scary that this was written in the 1400s and yet it doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten much further than this - it is a completely conditional argument foScary that this was written in the 1400s and yet it doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten much further than this - it is a completely conditional argument for the rights of women - you are able to live in safety and comfort if you contort to very specific and rigid ideals of femininity (meek, demure, virtuous, etc) and are able to consistently withstand and not anger at large amounts of pain and misfortune - it is in large part the feminism of the center right in america and that’s scary! it also kind of follows PE Moskovitz’s puritanism idea where someone’s moral character can be the deciding factor in their right to life which is complicated for multiple reasons: who is defining their moral character, what about the fact that people are different moral actors in different situations, when does morality become a place to peddle incredibly harmful and clunky biases etc etc - overall kind of a wild read for how prescient it is! ...more
An impassioned argument for the ineffable boons of art and creation, a diatribe against stupidity and all its clunky manifestations, a crawl through tAn impassioned argument for the ineffable boons of art and creation, a diatribe against stupidity and all its clunky manifestations, a crawl through the abyss of existence to find remnants of explorers from eons past, a wail of grief that ceaselessly echoes through a counterfeit night, a slick descent into valleys and gorges of sound, a murmured plea at the doors of memory; it is suffering, clutching at its tatters, refusing to go bare.
I closed the book a bit more forgiving of distraction, a bit more accepting of mediocrity, and a bit more bullheaded towards stupidity. This book asks what it means to grieve, a life, a love, and an ambition, and it leaves you with no answers other than it means nothing; we will all suffer, we will all grieve, and we will all have to face the hard cold hour. ...more
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