Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!
Questions of the week: (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):
What’s a recent book you’ve enjoyed reading?
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I have been reading mach-hommy and that God Fahim lyrics and have tried writing in that form
Antinomy, like it begins and doesn’t Circumnavigation for the Nike rep haul tomatoes up and ready, roma indeterminate Sourdough baguette convection bread maker
And when I get the courage I’ll make alotta songs in that form
I want to read the Bhagavad gita for some reason
I renewed my library card today because of this thread 💖
Last week I read a volume of a report related to the design of a new wastewater treatment plant. The report was 30 years old, so it’s not new, but one of my favorite things to do is untangle the history of industrial sites and map how they have changed over time.
It’s so interesting to map how laws changed over time because a lot of these rules exist only in site specific documents (there was no real blanket minimum treatment level until 2015-ish). I info dumped in the Vegan Home Cooks discord about sewers and the topic steered towards why we “allow” microplastics to enter the water. This stuff is so fascinating albeit depressing as hell that we pollute so much.
One of my fedi friends said i should read The Murderbot Diaries, and i loved it, currently upto book 2
Not technically a “book” but I’ve been reading a collection of Leonard Cohen’s poetry lately.
Sit down for this everyone. Someone from the Ukrainian Lemmy server didn’t like my meme and removed their endorsement of this server. I know, I know it is extremely hard to take this news and I’m sorry that we lost this thing I never knew we had.
Oh my god how will we ever recover from the rejection of a nationalist?
Oh no, whatever will we do now?
Don’t judge me (also audiobook because I have lost the ability to read fiction rip) but harrow the ninth. Purple prose Catholic school lesbian angst. A bit complex, a second person book is quite challenging and Muir floundered a little pulling it off. She stuck the ending though, solid.
Started Nona the ninth and enjoying it a lot more because Harrow is a joyless ghoul but Nona is extremely sweet and cute.
I’m curious where Tamson Muir is taking the whole thing. It’s all very gnostic with John as the demiurge, crossing the river/true lictorhood both stand ins for gnosis. Anyway, good stuff. If you want less angst but also complex plots and purple prose Catholic mysticism gene Wolfe’s book of the new sun is a good read too.
Audiobooks are great! My partner gets audiobooks from the library and really enjoys listening while doing chores.
Yeah that’s where I’m at. Finding the time to read fiction while I was alert enough to really chew on it had been hard. There’s a million and one things to do around the house that need my hands more than my brain though so it’s when I get my self indulgent fantasy nonsense in :D
If they want to read a silly series about “bonermancy” (immature brain rot drenched necromancy) written by a pretty funny and well educated woman the Ninth Tomb is decent. Some bits drag but come on, you’ve got to admire someone that writes a series going through the different grammatical persons just for the hell of it. That’s china Mieville levels of madness.
Alas her brain seems to have been damaged by covid and she’s having a hard time finishing it :(
