Recent reading
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luzulaAdrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea by Steven Callahan (1986, audiobook read by the author)
Recced byrachelmanija. This was quite immersive and suspenseful to listen to as an audiobook, and also included an interesting interview with the author at the end.
A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman (1975)
Also recced byrachelmanija, and by skygiants! Aww, this was indeed delightful. I liked the nuns bonding with the hippies.
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (2017) and The Barrow Will Send What It May (2018) by Margaret Killjoy
Novellas about anarchist demon-hunters. Quite enjoyable--for example, there's a demon who kills those who exercise power over others (that's the lamb slaughtering the lion). Although that doesn't exactly go as planned for those who summoned it, because of course they're trying to use the demon for power over others... Looking at photos of the author I have to imagine that the "itinerant anarchist punk" part of the characters (if not the "demon-hunting" part) is a bit autobiographical. I've read one book by Killjoy before; it was a choose-your-own-adventure story about a human getting mixed up in the rebellion of the downtrodden goblins against the gnomes. Sadly I found it less enjoyable than that sounds, but these were better.
Recced by
rachelmanija. This was quite immersive and suspenseful to listen to as an audiobook, and also included an interesting interview with the author at the end. A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman (1975)
Also recced by
rachelmanija, and by skygiants! Aww, this was indeed delightful. I liked the nuns bonding with the hippies. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (2017) and The Barrow Will Send What It May (2018) by Margaret Killjoy
Novellas about anarchist demon-hunters. Quite enjoyable--for example, there's a demon who kills those who exercise power over others (that's the lamb slaughtering the lion). Although that doesn't exactly go as planned for those who summoned it, because of course they're trying to use the demon for power over others... Looking at photos of the author I have to imagine that the "itinerant anarchist punk" part of the characters (if not the "demon-hunting" part) is a bit autobiographical. I've read one book by Killjoy before; it was a choose-your-own-adventure story about a human getting mixed up in the rebellion of the downtrodden goblins against the gnomes. Sadly I found it less enjoyable than that sounds, but these were better.
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