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Music reviews/musings: #soundtrack

Ex-homeless, quiet they/them, training in #horticulture and #arborology. Tea enjoyer. #queermedia consumer, #booklover. #jazz enthusiast, guitar and cello player, #manga reader, game player, #math dabbler, #philosophy lover. EN/普通话/ES okay.

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Scott Brick, the audiobook performer, pisses me off.

He has a commanding, sonorous, soothing voice, and can read without sounding like he's reading, but his cadence irks.

He speaks in an American WASPy preacher. Add this to his commanding audio-presence and it comes off...dictatorial.

No more Brick. Enderverse, Foundation, the list goes on. No more Brick! Give me queer, gender non-conforming black people. And pay them properly, dangit!

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kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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Since we are coming up on June, it seems like a good time to check in with everyone here on @bookstodon regarding favorite reads of 2024 so far. Whatcha got?

My top five reads of 2024 so far:

The Criminal series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker (ten primary works)

James, Percival Everett

The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Poor Deer, Claire Oshetsky

Prequel, Rachel Maddow

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Fave books so far (Pride Month, 2024)

  1. Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski
  2. Boy Underground, Catherine Ryan Hyde
  3. The Civil War of Amos Abernathy, Michael Leali
  4. Pixels of You, Yuko Ota
  5. Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories, Ásta

1-3 novels, 4 graphic novel, 5 philosophical text.

This year was a great year for reading.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Yeah, you recommended it a couple ofonths ago. I've got it and I've saving it for a time when life gets too hard to deal with.

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Beethoven is A great composer, but not THE great composer, according to a music professor who believes it’s time to reframe Beethoven’s greatness “within the context of historic ideals of whiteness and patriarchy.”

“If Americans could acknowledge that our music and music education are deeply rooted in these two ideologies, then we could realize that Beethoven, surely a good composer, was simply one of many.”

https://theconversation.com/was-beethoven-truly-the-greatest-229660
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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon I just put a hold on book of Cat Poems, if you wanted to know how things were going. 🐱

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Cats sleep anywhere. Any table, and chair. Top of piano, window ledge, in the middle, on the edge...

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Well, I suppose there's a first time for everything.

Today's review of The Left Hand of Dog calls the book 'too normal'.

If you'd like to read an ordinary, typical, common book about an aro-ace agenda IT project manager and her dog who get kidnapped by giant space bunnies, click below. Prices are going up … soon.

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/collection/starship-teapot-series

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@clacksee @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon Yup, totes normal. Where are the polyamourous, gender non-conforming, stapler-weilding bad-ass sisters who find all the sad people and tickle their tummies and wig-out with them, all while finding nazi cishet White doods and stapling their €¢¥∆§s to the wall?

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon Even if it doesn't catch on, I would like to institute #WhatchaReadingWednesday a hashtag which already exists, I believe? Anywho, whatcha reading?

#IAmReading Ben H. Winter's new book BIG TIME, and it's really good so far. It is lean, so perfect for those who hate padding in their stories. I don't want to give away the premise, so I will just say that it's a bit of a thriller that involves time itself.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I'm currently reading The Outer Limits of Reason by Noson Yanofsky. It's a well-written love letter to agnotology and a pleading diatribe for the universe to start making sense please.

A little heavy sometimes, so I'm also reading This Monk Wears Heels by Nodo Nishimura. A brilliant read about East-West differences, Buddhism and LGBTQIA peeps, and how to find one's authentic self in a world designed for conformity.

ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group
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Defend our

(from @tomgauld)

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book ,
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@mose @ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon Atomised individualism. It's a Siren call perpetuated by those who want all public services to be privatised or become a memory.

Just because someone doesn't use a particular service doesn't mean they shouldn't recognise the utility provided by that service to others; creating a better life for everyone in the community, including those who don't use it.

Village halls, town greens/squares, fire service, schools, infrastructure.

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@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon https://toot.lgbt/@book/111885501128798980

dbsalk , to bookstodon group
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Pitchers and catchers report next week, and it's around this time of year that, if I can, I try to read something baseball-related. Yesterday I picked up a book that I read when I was a teen and remember enjoying it very much: If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock. It's sort of like if Field of Dreams and Back To The Future had a baby, and it's great. #Books #Baseball #Bookstodon #AmReading #Fiction #Sports #MLB #FridayReads @bookstodon

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@dbsalk @bookstodon Is this fiction? It looks really interesting.

book , to blackmastodon group
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If you guys like deep dives into the weird, wonderful, and awful, may I recommend Jaybeflaunt?

This cutie is a young black dood on dialysis and he gets so few views on his videos despite all the research he does, the people he gets to come on his streams with knowledge and compassion, and his ever-cheery passion.

https://youtu.be/PlHkHhgBMdo

#BlackHistoryMonth #blackCreators @blackmastodon

This guy is an inspiration in real shiddy times.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon I am on a graphic novel kick, continuing from last year. What are you reading this month, to kick off 2024?

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon https://toot.lgbt/@book/111800127301269932

This one hurt so good.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon And this one was so good.

https://toot.lgbt/@book/111744455876163459

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I didn't know there was a follow-up. Thanks, Kim! I'm going to hunt it down.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Northranger by Terciero and Indigo is gorgeous. Sepiatone, uses horror as a metaphor for the LGBTQ+ experience in rural America, and deals with a lot of mental wellness issues.

https://toot.lgbt/@book/111218255765532454

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon And Tell Me It's Real by Kline and Jakky is one of the funniest graphic novels I've ever read.

https://toot.lgbt/@book/110917925983582621

Another LGBTQIA+ book, for sure, but heartwarming, funny, brilliantly written, and so wholesome.

This was published before TJ Klune shot to fame with The House in the Cerulean Sea, yet surpassed it in many ways.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Whoop whoop 💥

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon You won't be disappointed. Best £10 I had spent last year.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Yeah, it was second hand/used. I was looking for Flamer as per the others' recommendations and it cost $€¥$ here.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Nope. Free, unless printing or renting DVDs and such

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@patchworkbunny @kimlockhartga @bookstodon They do reservations here too but they only cost 60p.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon My library system has about 40 libraries in the network. It covers the whole county which happens to be extremely rural and, therefore, spread out.

By reserving a book, when available, you can choose which library to collect the reservation. Drop a buck, wait a few days, and pick it up.

Because of your recommendations, I picked up Flamer by Mike Curato from a library 25 miles away.

Thanks so much. If you have more recs, let me know. You have good taste.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I didn't answer your question: What's the fee for? I'm guessing it's for the admin and transportation of the reserved items. I can ask a librarian next time I see them, if wanted.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon Thank you. Chuu!

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