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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie
3.0
I just wish this was more voicey honestly the characters felt kind of hollow by the end and I struggled to differentiate the POVs but there are beautiful moments here for sure
Greasepaint by Hannah Levene
5.0
in shock how much I liked this!!! usually don't like this type of book but I understand why people do now, laughing getting chills getting choked up the whole time... most of all I didn't have the feeling you always get with books About butchness where it's like they're trying to teach you a lesson even though at several points it does monologue at you about it, I think the characters are just so strong that you learn implicitly about butch as the theme that ties them together without having to explicitly pin down its qualities. the kosher sausages thing I'm choosing to forget abt. thank u AM :)
Not by Birth Alone: Conversion to Judaism by Walter Jacob, Walter Homolka, Esther Seidel
5.0
I'm just sad this isn't more widely available bc I want everyone to read it... I love how it integrates the question of conversion into the wider question of jewish identity bc frankly there wouldn't be much to say otherwise.
Case in point I did kind of lose interest with some of the personal stories because really the revelations here are about the myth of monolithic (&racial) Jewish identity, the incompatibility of the State's goals with the Jewish religion, and unmasking the political power struggles over halacha. Conversion is the stretched fabric where all these bones poke out but so many discussions end up treating conversion as an sort of exception-to-the-rule issue for the social justice arena & missing all the potential.
It does occasionally feel outdated but I think that would make the authors super happy. I started hackles raised at the very mention of proselytism yet I think it's interesting to reevaluate the question every now again and nudge the boundaries rather than just keeping to routine. The questions asked make sense but, none of the editors being. gerim, they look in the wrong direction for possible issues - respectful proselytising wouldn't do any harm to the gentile world, but it would to judaism; being 'too' lax with conversion doesn't do any harm to judaism but it does to conversion.
unexpectedly interesting read, thank you ash!
Case in point I did kind of lose interest with some of the personal stories because really the revelations here are about the myth of monolithic (&racial) Jewish identity, the incompatibility of the State's goals with the Jewish religion, and unmasking the political power struggles over halacha. Conversion is the stretched fabric where all these bones poke out but so many discussions end up treating conversion as an sort of exception-to-the-rule issue for the social justice arena & missing all the potential.
It does occasionally feel outdated but I think that would make the authors super happy. I started hackles raised at the very mention of proselytism yet I think it's interesting to reevaluate the question every now again and nudge the boundaries rather than just keeping to routine. The questions asked make sense but, none of the editors being. gerim, they look in the wrong direction for possible issues - respectful proselytising wouldn't do any harm to the gentile world, but it would to judaism; being 'too' lax with conversion doesn't do any harm to judaism but it does to conversion.
unexpectedly interesting read, thank you ash!
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain by Amy Jeffs
5.0
amy jeffs the only cambridge educated mf I trust
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
2.0
Me: it's called Godkiller and she has to kill gods and she's like helping this orphan. Can you guess what the epic twist is about the orphan in the final chapter?
Jodie: She's the daughter of a god?
Jodie: She's the daughter of a god?
The Fall of the Kings by Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner
3.0
Morpeth mentioned!!! Basically imagine Lud-in-the-Mist if it was 19 hours long because the characters constantly pause for dark academia themed blowjobs or to start a brawl in a gay bar
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.0
A Wizard of Earthsea got upgraded and this gets downgraded... As a re-read it lost the horror of the unknown and exposed a lot of cracks beneath. I just found the constant descriptions of Manan's small eyes and yellow skin and husky voice really unpleasant and the whole redemption thing felt really hollowly christian... And although some of the dialogue was great at other times it felt so exposition-y and by the end the world felt so much flatter and smaller than it did in the first book :(
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
I loved this the first time but I don't think I fully appreciated just how ridiculously good her prosecraft is until now ursula k le GOAT!!!