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BrittReads@bookwyrm.social

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Artist, designer, player of games and TTRPGs. Once avid reader now trying to get back the enthusiasm and concentration. Likely reading sci-fi and fantasy books, also books on design, art, science and other things that interest me.

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83% complete! BrittReads has read 5 of 6 books.

Zoe Thorogood: It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (GraphicNovel, 2022, Image Comics) 5 stars

A provacative graphic memoir perfect for fans of Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems

  • Thorogood …

A tough read, auto bio where things actually happen always is. I enjoy the wide and relaxed approach to an art style to help shoe Zoe's internal conflicts between different parts of her mind, memory and personality. I also very much enjoyed the immediate feel of the comic and it's ability to break the narrative to start again, reframe a scene or break the fourth wall. In comics you can do anything.

Zoe Thorogood: It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (GraphicNovel, 2022, Image Comics) 5 stars

A provacative graphic memoir perfect for fans of Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems

  • Thorogood …

In comics you can do anything.

5 stars

A tough read, auto bio where things actually happen always is. I enjoy the wide and relaxed approach to an art style to help shoe Zoe's internal conflicts between different parts of her mind, memory and personality. I also very much enjoyed the immediate feel of the comic and it's ability to break the narrative to start again, reframe a scene or break the fourth wall. In comics you can do anything.

finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2018, Orion Publishing Co) 4 stars

[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by …

A fascinating sci-fi classic, occasionally a bit dated in our main character's reactions to a culture without gender or sex, his need to see gender where there is none is sometimes a little overstated- but even that is a fascinating read. Overall a brilliant book, touching on politics, beliefs, culture, friendships and vast cold, frozen landscapes, familiar and alien at the same time.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2018, Orion Publishing Co) 4 stars

[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by …

Sci-fi classic!

5 stars

A fascinating sci-fi classic, occasionally a bit dated in our main character's reactions to a culture without gender or sex, his need to see gender where there is none is sometimes a little overstated- but even that is a fascinating read. Overall a brilliant book, touching on politics, beliefs, culture, friendships and vast cold, frozen landscapes, familiar and alien at the same time.

reviewed Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone (Hardcover, 2012, Henry Holt) 4 stars

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, …

Nice, pleasant fantasy with a little bit of romance thrown in.

4 stars

A very enjoyable book. Sometimes a bit difficult to get through as the first person limited POV can leave supporting characters feeling a bit hollow.

Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other (2019) 5 stars

Girl, Woman, Other is the eighth novel to be written by Bernardine Evaristo. Published in …

A unique look at the intersection of being LGBTQ and black

5 stars

Wow. A book that gives you a glimpse into so many lives. A unique look at the intersection of being LGBTQ and black. A complex set of stories, all interconnected, visiting friends and family, current times and historical. Some characters stories are harder to read than others, this book deals with some very difficult topics, ones that are sadly very familiar. By the end of the book I felt I knew all our characters so well, their lives, influences and ambitions.