Recent reading
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luzulaEtt extremt dyrt och livsfarligt sätt att värma vatten by Åsa Moberg [An extremely expensive and dangerous way of heating water]
A book about nuclear power; from the title you can conclude that this book is against it. I didn't actually know much about nuclear power, and now I know a lot more.
Méchanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine
For my fannish book club. Opinions were divided on this book--I didn't really connect with it. It's rather dark magical steampunk (with no actual instance of steam power) set in a depressing post-apocalyptic world which the circus travels through; also there's dub-con body modification. The story-telling is non-linear and felt rather distant to me. There's a stylistic thing which I couldn't un-see once I noticed it: the author puts sentences within parentheses a lot.
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language by John McWhorter (audio lecture series from The Teaching Company)
There's some stuff I already knew here, but also some cool stuff I didn't know. I liked the lecturer, too.
Also, I am finished with most of Yuletide (meaning that I've gone through all the fandoms that caught my eye, read almost everything under 5K words, and put the rest on my ereader)! I have failed to post recs, though. /o\
A book about nuclear power; from the title you can conclude that this book is against it. I didn't actually know much about nuclear power, and now I know a lot more.
Méchanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine
For my fannish book club. Opinions were divided on this book--I didn't really connect with it. It's rather dark magical steampunk (with no actual instance of steam power) set in a depressing post-apocalyptic world which the circus travels through; also there's dub-con body modification. The story-telling is non-linear and felt rather distant to me. There's a stylistic thing which I couldn't un-see once I noticed it: the author puts sentences within parentheses a lot.
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language by John McWhorter (audio lecture series from The Teaching Company)
There's some stuff I already knew here, but also some cool stuff I didn't know. I liked the lecturer, too.
Also, I am finished with most of Yuletide (meaning that I've gone through all the fandoms that caught my eye, read almost everything under 5K words, and put the rest on my ereader)! I have failed to post recs, though. /o\
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