Favorite Books 2023
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Short reviews of my favorite books I read in 2023, presented in the order I read them. Don't pay for it unless you're rich.
Looking for more book recs? Check out SFUltra, my favorite book podcast, which is directly or indirectly responsible for three entries in this zine.
And 2021's zine is here, and it also includes the list of my favorites back to 2016.
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Thank you for your lovely book recs! Boooooks!
Book power! Thank you for the comment. This is my favorite little annual project.
I might try something similar soon. Thanks for the inspiration!
Please do! In case you didn't see, I made a little collection here: https://itch.io/c/3912145/2023-recommendation-zines
thank you, books
thank you, books!
I also read The Left Hand of Darkness this year! I remember her going out of her way to be like "the Gethens definitely aren't male or female, but we only have gendered pronouns in English, sucks to suck," but maybe that was the introduction of the version I have, or maybe I'm misremembering. It is kind of wild that no one tried to make singular they more of a thing earlier.
Anyway, more power to the protagonist of Ancillary Justice coming from a society that uses she for everyone, walking into a bar where they still have two gendered pronouns, being like "god, it's so hard to remember which is which, and they get so pissy when you get it wrong," and then winning the bar fight that breaks out when she fucks it up.
In conclusion, this is my favorite joke I've written in years:
Me trying to come out as nonbinary: "I'm something of a Gethen myself"
My friends: "getting laid at most once a month?"
That's a good joke!