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Currently reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I might as well be reading the news. Prescient. #AmReading
New Read - Fist of the North Star, Volume 17 (Viz Hardcover Edition)
We are ramping up to the end as Kenshiro is bringing Raoh's son all over to show him more areas and train him up. The core story of this volume involves the hidden kingdom of Sava, where the King is looking to end the fighting between his three sons and Kenshiro helps him do it.
Yes, I got emotional. Yes, I was tearing up while sitting on my couch reading.
Fist of the North Star brings out emotions in me.
Loved it. Final volume coming up soon.
I highly recommend reading Dismantling Global White Privilege By Chandran Nair.
It's a good overview of a lot of the issues in a lot of different fields and from different perspectives.
The latest piece in my series of notes on Erik Olin Wright's book "Classes". This section focuses on the conceptual problems facing class and especially the concept of the "middle class".
https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/part-4-the-conceptual-problem-with-classes/
Proletarian Perspective · Part 4: The Conceptual Problem with ClassesOther notes on Classes The pertinent part of this section1 centres on the conceptual issue surrounding classes. One of the main problems in our approach to understanding class, as Wright saw it, is…
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Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It's Tuesday which means it's time for this week's Top Ten Tuesday post. I've decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl's Top Ten Tuesday meme to mix things up a little here at damppebbles. Add a little bit of variety to our bookish weeks. The meme was originally…
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damppebbles.com · #TopTenTuesday | 22nd July 2025: Books Set in Australia #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebblesHello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl…
Just finished Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke 5
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I loved the history parts the most and the memoirish bits the least, but overall a very interesting read.
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I feel like I've been really on top of my reviews lately! Which is great because I'm going to have absolutely no free time for the foreseeable future and I'm glad I'm not late getting them done!
Anyway, this time I reviewed an SF/speculative literary fiction kind of thing. It was cool!
Taylor Drew - Japanese to English Translatorsunbirth by an yuI'm back again with another review from a book I got on NetGalley! This book kind of feels like a change in pace from what I've reviewed in the past. I think...
"They take the lies they want, and throw away the truths that scare them." - James
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Loved The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong! Otherwise, no huge standouts. Widdershins by Jordan Hawk was very good, & Stray Spirit by RK Ashwick was too. Mining Men was interesting, but I didn't particularly like the writer herself's narration, just the (mostly) men's stories #amreading #bookstodon #books
I love snark and sarcasm. Every week on my Substack, I share some notable quotes I've come across in my reading. Here's an example, and you can see more at https://susannasullivanauthor.substack.com/i/168335719/notable-quotes
Another delightful read from Taiwan. The story revolves around an old shared flat, a Japanese-era building & its 5 flatmates (4 graduate school students & a live-in landlord). They're like the symbols of Taiwan, w/ diverse ethnic backgrounds, & often discordant senses of identity. Yet they are trying to help one another & live together (sometimes w/ success, & sometimes…?). It’s fun, humorous yet heart-wrenching at times. Total respect to this greatly talented author. #amreading
New Manga Read - Bomba!
Legendary manga creator Osamu Tezuka wrote the single volume story Bomba! in 1970. It's...a giant trigger warning.
The story involves an abused teenage boy who becomes obsessed with his middle school teacher and summons the ghost of a horse (Bomba) from his father's days in the Japanese military during World War II to kill those he hates.
When he realizes that he was delusional, he hates himself. Bomba comes for him...
It's a lot. Also, ghost horse murders of hundreds of people isn't really delved into as our main character learns to love himself and gets a happy ending.
Uhm...no thanks.
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"The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook" by Matt Dinniman
This is the third book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Three down, hopefully many more to go.
I know in my review of the first book I labeled it as kind of crude and superficial but certainly humorous and popcorn fun. It's still partially that, but I'm also happily surprised at the direction it's going. More backstory, more worldbuilding, more depth to every relationship and more room for difficult emotions.
At this point in the series, despite all of the dire circumstances, it's starting to feel like a found family story. The party grows a little bigger again and side characters get to play a more important role too. At first I was laughing along with every explosion, but now I'm almost tearing up at every crawler or NPC having a hard time.
I'm glad I can continue reading in book four immediately.
I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
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