#book posting

One of the things I greatly appreciate about The Murderbot Diaries is that the author tells us about worldbuilding stuff organically instead of having like a huge list at the beginning or the end of the book that you better study or you'll be completely lost whenever someone mentions something very specific. I especially love that Murderbot's sort-of infodumping about constructs happens in tiny bits and pieces whenever it feels fitting while at the same time trusting us to know how humans work and how their world works. While actually this is a science fiction world Martha Wells made up so we just really know stuff from context and I LOVE THAT. To me personally nothing is more annoying than when a story spoon-feeds you the same information three times in a row like some sort of workbook. I love it when an author trusts me to know why people use it/its for Murderbot or why Murderbot knows everyone's pronouns. I mean, we eventually learn that people have their pronouns in what is essentially their bio in their version of the internet. So like we do in this day and age. Most of us anyway.

I know I'm quite literally 40 years late to the party but it is unbelievable how relevant The Handmaid's Tale still is. Obsessed with this section in particular

also happy pride everyone!! i’ll be reading exclusively queer books this month (as if that’s any different from the other 11 months of the year…), so i’m looking for recommendations!! these are my latest read, my current read & my planned next read. if anyone has any other recs please let me know!! <3

Piranesi really is a Character of all time. the gentleness he treats not only other versions of himself with but also all the birds, other people, and the house itself with, the incredible amount of perseverance he has for learning hard truths about the world and himself, and when he wants to look his absolute best, he decorates himself with trinkets and pieces of coral and things

Y'all I just came up with a new book idea: It's set after the second world war and a group of women form a support group for women who lost their husbands in the group. They help each other through the grief and eventually they end up just having a little club for various things, not just therapy, but they become a very close group and great friends.