mouse started reading Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
interesting to start a book with the protagonist being the absolute worst!
Reviews and Comments
it's me, I'm the creator and admin of BookWyrm. buy me a book!
try me at @tripofmice@friend.camp for non-reading content and @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt for technical stuff
This link opens in a pop-up window
mouse finished reading Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
I'm a little grumpy that I predicted the twist at the end early on. This wasn't really my thing, but it wasn't bad?
mouse started reading Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
I'm not super feeling this but I'm still reading it
mouse started reading Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
Been a while since I got lost in an escapists sf/f genre read, what a cool drink for me right now
mouse finished reading The Philosophy of Art by Curt John Ducasse
I keep finding that with philosophy or theory books, I find the intro super interesting and then the rest of the book a combination of absolutely impenetrable jargon and excruciatingly detailed debunkings of prior work that I haven't read and means nothing to me. I guess this is why I didn't go to grad school.
mouse started reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the …
delightful so far
mouse finished reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the …
this really brought me fully back to being a kid who wanted to be a sailor
mouse started reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems …
My mom lent me this, it's interesting so far!
mouse finished reading The Goddess and the Bull by Michael Balter
Discovered in 1958 by James Mellaart, Catalhoyuek, located on the Konya Plain in Turkey, is …
I really enjoyed this!
mouse finished reading The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Mayor of Bellay, cousin of Madame Recamier, Chevalier de l'Empire, author of A …
Content warning food & alc, diets
I did not know what I was getting into with this book! It was written in 1825 (which I did not realize until I started it) and is a mix of food science of its time, anecdotes about food, and the author pondering wholly unrelated subjects (like what would happen if an astroid hit the earth). Brillat-Savarin is an incredibly compelling and witty writer, especially when read aloud; he also has some strong opinions that are quite funny to the present day (drinking water is bad, coffee in more dangerous to one's health than wine, thinking too much after eating is the leading cause of death).
The only really unpleasant part is his weird and gross section about obesity and dieting. According to the back of the book he's hailed as the father of the low carb diet, which I don't think is any kind of honor.
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
mouse commented on Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans …
I forgot I read this this year; has to win the award for most dissonance between the vibe suggested by the cover and the actual vibe
mouse started reading Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Aura is a short novel written by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 …
my recollection of high school Spanish is getting me approximately 30% comprehension; luckily it's a bilingual edition
mouse commented on A Manual of Akkadian by David Marcus
A self-teaching manual of Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), this unique text …
just got this from the library in a real "sickos: hahah yes" moment for me
mouse started reading The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll …
Stoked!