bupu finished reading Death's End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #03)
Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese …
Accidentally read this one before The Dark Forest, oops!
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bupu reviewed Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?
In New …
Terrible story and writing
2 stars
I had to stop reading it after a few chapters, which I rarely do. This seems like it was written with the intent on pitching it as a teen TV show. I think it would make a fun TV show for kids and teens but it isn't a very good book...
I had to stop reading it after a few chapters, which I rarely do. This seems like it was written with the intent on pitching it as a teen TV show. I think it would make a fun TV show for kids and teens but it isn't a very good book...
bupu started reading The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #2)
"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy …
Excited to get into this after the first one.
bupu reviewed The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
Spectacular view at human history
5 stars
This book exceeded my expectations. An excellent science fiction book that has an interesting and realistic perspective on human history and our potential future.
bupu reviewed Silo Saga Omnibus by Hugh Howey (duplicate)
Great modern sci-fi
4 stars
bupu started reading Silo Saga Omnibus by Hugh Howey (duplicate)
Because I can't stop myself from watching spoiler videos on YouTube!
Because I can't stop myself from watching spoiler videos on YouTube!
bupu reviewed Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the last in a series …
True to the title!
4 stars
In what was meant to be the final book in the Southern Reach series, acceptance acts as the difficult lesson and a feeling that the characters need to learn to be friends. As I read the final book, I learned about the new, surprise, fourth book and that is a very good thing because Acceptance is a book that will definitely leave you wanting more!
bupu started reading All About Love by bell hooks
"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet ... we would all …
Thank you Apple Books for the sale I couldn’t resist! Can’t wait to dig in.
bupu started reading Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the last in a series …
Hope this one keeps momentum from the ending of the last one. No more office work please!
bupu reviewed Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series …
Like if you had PTSD from a bad office job — but sci-fi
3 stars
Quite a different tone from the first novel. Someone else said something like a bureaucratic suspense thriller, and I think that is a good way to put it. Not my fave in the series but I look forward to reading the final book.
bupu finished reading Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series …
Quite a different tone from the first novel. Someone else said something like a bureaucratic suspense thriller, and I think that is a good way to put it. Not my fave in the series but I look forward to reading the final book.
bupu reviewed Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first in a series …
Unnerving in the best way
4 stars
A captivating story of transformation that makes your neck hairs stand on end and is hard to put down.
bupu rated Teaching Community: 5 stars
bupu rated How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain: 4 stars
bupu reviewed Designs for the pluriverse by Arturo Escobar (New ecologies for the twenty-first century)
Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of …
Pluriversality is the future
5 stars
This is essential reading for anybody who is doing research-creation or co-creation and is seriously interested in decolonizing your practice and care about the environment! This is becoming a Bible for grad school for me. Just worth forewarning that it doesn't provide many answers so much as to make one think more about relationality and how we could transform how we organize our communities, how we are apart of not just one community but many, and thinking on the complexity of that and how we could learn to manage interacting with other communities who are different than us while respecting everyone's autonomy. Pluriversality requires the destruction of capitalist systems and leadership from Indigenous communities in the Global South.
This is essential reading for anybody who is doing research-creation or co-creation and is seriously interested in decolonizing your practice and care about the environment! This is becoming a Bible for grad school for me. Just worth forewarning that it doesn't provide many answers so much as to make one think more about relationality and how we could transform how we organize our communities, how we are apart of not just one community but many, and thinking on the complexity of that and how we could learn to manage interacting with other communities who are different than us while respecting everyone's autonomy. Pluriversality requires the destruction of capitalist systems and leadership from Indigenous communities in the Global South.