City of Last Chances β’ Adrian Tchaikovsky πππππ
The Brides of High Hill β’ Nghi Vo βοΈβοΈβοΈ
The Traitor Baru Cormorant β’ Seth Dickinson βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ
ππ· Klara & the Sun β’ Kazuo Ishiguro βοΈβοΈβοΈ
Thornhedge β’ T. Kingfisher βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ
Heavenly Tyrant β’ Xiran Jay Zhao βοΈ
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π Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand β’ Gail Carson Levine πππππ
Howlβs Moving Castle β’ Diana Wynne Jones πππππ
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ππ· The Frozen River β’ Ariel Lawhon
π The Monster Baru Cormorant β’ Seth Dickinson
π The Female Eunuch β’ Germaine Greer
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One Art - Elizabeth Bishop // October - Louise Gluck // On Reading An Anthology of Postwar German Poetry - Lisel Mueller // Fairy-tale Logic - A. E. Stallings // Introduction to Space Opera - Brian Aldiss // Yellow Glove - Naomi Shihab Nye // Hammond B3 Organ Cistern - Gabrielle Calvocoressi
im sure heβs at least close to the truth but the timing of this sent me flying
f!UB i sketched as warmups over the week
No joke, go read The Open Veins of Latin America before even trying to send me a political ask. Mandatory reading.
It's a clichΓ© that every Latin American leftist has read it and quotes it, but that's because it's written in such a clear language with undeniable strenght on its facts. It presents the history of Latin America solidly just in the first few pages, and it only gets more engrossing the more it goes on. While it is now a bit outdated in the sense that it was first published in 1971, the historical, social and political issues presented are -in an unfortunate way- still current. It is a relatively short book, passionate and in a clear, poetic language.
Sometimes it's good to return to the basics, and this is THE basic book if you want to understand the effects of imperialism in Latin America, and our struggle for freedom and identity.
Instead of losing your time with half baked twitteroid takes, go read it. Here you go, for free, in Spanish, Portuguese and English:
https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r31206.pdf
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf