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Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When …
This appeals both to my desire to read some fluff, and to my interest in hypothetical pre-industrial supply chain logistics for salt
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …
This was a frustrating read because I liked so much about it, but I thought it floundered a bit in the second half and also it was just so much. I wish it had done way less and spent more time with the story. I felt like the impact of revelations was diminished by the sheer volume and frequency they came at. The world was really interesting, but important parts didn't feel fleshed out (like the entire government and how it operated, logistically)
@morenonatural@todon.nl Not really -- the folks at bonn.digital/ contacted me about it at one point but I'm not sure if they ever started offering as a service
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the …
We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? …
Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of …
A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond.
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …
First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living …
First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
I'm really liking this but you'll be shocked to hear that this book about a soldier and a nurse in WWI is pretty bleak so far
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being …
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
Appropriate gender behavior, for instance, was considered by many to be an essentially improper concern for Christians. ... The influential "Egyptian Gospel" emphasized again and again the necessity of terminating traditional patterns of sexuality, especially childbearing, and asserted that the Apocalypse would not occur until "the two [genders] become one, and man and woman are neither male nor female."
— Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell (Page 158)
This was an interesting comparison to something I recall from Gender Reversals & Gender Cultures:
To the extent that generic human being is male, that is rational soul, every description of the Christian process of salvation is a form of gender crossing for women. To be saved in of a world of body, flesh, and sexuality to become an incorporeal, rational soul is to become symbolically male.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
