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Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State by Benjamin D. Hopkins

Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State

Benjamin D. Hopkins

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Mahmoud Darwish

175 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction autobiography essays literary poetry politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

Jasbir K. Puar

296 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
nonfiction philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
Her Tale of Shim Chong by Seri

Her Tale of Shim Chong

그녀의 심청 (Her Tale of Shim Chong) #1-7;sidestory

Seri

90 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction fantasy feminism historical lgbtqia+ manga romance emotional fast-paced
Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia
Goodnight, Melancholy
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Xia Jia

Goodnight, Melancholy

Xia Jia

48 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0espeon's review
Root Rot by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Root Rot
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Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

Root Rot

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

missing page info • missing pub info (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction short stories speculative fiction
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower

Ann Leckie

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

354 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

Kai Cheng Thom

188 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction lgbtqia+ magical realism young adult adventurous emotional fast-paced
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation

Southern Reach #1

Jeff VanderMeer

195 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0espeon's review
fiction horror science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced