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Joana

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Not a book but you should read it!!!

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-01-23

I don't know if this counts as a book, but I'm adding here, because I wanna recommend it!!! If you have audible, this is an incredible listen, with multiple black women talking about their experiences, personal ones and also in relation to the world and community. Truly such an important and good listen!!! Pick it up!!!

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A look into fandom in the early 2010!!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-01-23

I definitely don't regret spending a audible credit on this book - it's been on my list for years and I would have always wondered about it - but this is not a thing I would recommend as a guide nowadays... now if you're looking for nostalgia or fandom history, this is for you!!
This book is the most 2015 thing that could exist!!! From the many references to "superwholock" to adoration from people who have shown themselves to not be worthy of it - some of those are just "no"s... and more than that behavior has just changed and there are new terms, and conversations to have about these topics that have evolved.
I also think, in general, people who were picking this book up were already in fandom and I don't think how much of these dictionary type things would be useful or add anything new to these readers... Except the chapter on "cons", again nowadays with covid that would need an update, but there are useful advices about panels and photos, and interaction with fans and artists, this said, it's also very USA centric.
A very fun read, set in a time gone by!!

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Time Traveling Classic

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-21-23

This was on my list of twitter recommendations for the year - I had asked for short books, but you know this ended up there - and since it was free on audible, it was time, but honestly I feel I lost something listening to it, instead of reading it physically... I think I could have enjoyed it even more then, but it was still so good!!!
The building of the time travelling in this book is excellent, and it feels very much like a starting point for so much of other time-travelling stories, you really get how this is a classic in the genre and it has inspired other works!!! The building of how it works was so interesting, with consequences of the changes, and then also all these mentions to what they know and the things they can expect to happen!!
The dynamics and the characters were also really interesting, and how they got on with each other, the figuring out each of the sides, both in relation to the future and what they know, but also in the time they're in, that was so well done!!
Really a nice recommendation to have gotten!!! It was definitely a good one!!!

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A Read with Rhythm!!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-21-23

I'll say this one started a bit slow, not the writing/story itself, but my enjoyment... it's very personal story so it feels very weird to write that, but I liked the parts about self-discovery a lot, it was just the writing, the verse of it, wasn't my style, but if you like rhythm and pacing, this is a really great listen!!! With this all said, it's still a four stars read!!!

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New stories to learn

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-23

As a pirate fan, I had to pick up this audiobook and it was so interesting!!! I really like how it goes through time, and it doesn't only focus on pirates as we see them, it's very much about women in the margin of society, that had to turn to other means during their lives, and there is very much a conversation about women in society, and the power you can have as your own, and also how that power most often will relate to men, because of the patriarchy...
Then focusing on the Golden Age, which is the one I read the most about, this book had a lot of interesting things to say, focusing on women outside of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and then with these curious theories - that are exactly just theories - about some other pirates, including Black Bart, and one of Blackbeard's wives, that I certainly want to hear about!!!
This was definitely a fascinating read and you'll learn things you haven't hear about before!!!

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Superhero YA story

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-23

This has been on my radar for years, and when it showed up on the free reads on audible, I decided to pick it up, and it wasn't what I expected... Still a good solid read, I would say a super high 3 stars!!!
First of all I really thought it was middle grade, that's what I was looking for, but definitely young adult, with talks and feelings more to that age group...
Second of all, I didn't expect this much transphobia, I wanted Danny to flourish as she is, but there was so much against her, and it was scenes and words I hadn't prepared to be hearing... and I felt the book at the start was painting her parents too negatively, because if you don't know your child is trans and they just mysteriously change into another gender, I would also try to figure out how to revert it, but then they just show themselves to be transphobic!!! And it's not just them, it's Danny losing his friend, and some of the heroes as well...
Now thirdly, I did like how it explored Danny's feelings, how it felt to have the body she wanted, to fit publicly/socially as the way she already was, and then I love the note that her brain picked up a body that wasn't even possible, but like a photoshopped version!! And then also her identity as a trans woman but also a lesbian - the crush on Valkyrie being so relatable...
Then finally, the friendship with Calamity and how that's the way to see the world, to explore their powers, and the way the reality not being black and white settles in across the story, the way Danny grows to question the world they live in.
This was a good book if you're looking for a superhero story, just a giant warning for a lot, a lot, of transphobia!!!

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Excellent memoir!!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-23

I'm realizing I really love memoirs, that I find them such interesting reads, to know more about person's lives and experiences. It's not only about the struggles of getting pregnant, which is never easy, but also the process of detransitioning so they could have their child biologically and the toll it took on her girlfriend and their relationship. This was such a really good listen, and I can't recommend enough, and Detransition, Baby is moving up on my list!!!

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Anthem to love and community

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-06-23

With the audible free trial in motion, I caught glimpse of this book and it seemed interesting, after a deeper looked I realized this is the same author of “Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love” which I've had on my amazon cart for years now, so I had to listen!! And this was was spectacular, it's coming to be one of my favorites of the year!!!

This book is an important exploration of love and community, of this reconstruction of how society has pressured us to think about love, the way we're conditioned to think about romantic and sexual love first, and here to see love put in the same grounds, to speak of friendship has this life changing relationships, that can be partners is so important, this conversation about how rich life is or can be if you have different sources of love, if your emotional needs don't all depend on one person.

Then to me, this book speaking of the intersection between polyamory and asexuality is so personal, so often they can't be seen as compatible, because wrongly society makes polyamory as solely sex based, but to see again multiple shows of loves and relationships here, and to hear ace voices, as something I've come to realize about myself only in the last few years, it feels important to remind people of how much of a spectrum this is, as all queer identities there's not a wrong and right way to be you.

Really this is a beautiful, important, lifechanging book, and I want to put it in people's hands. This felt right to who I am, it felt an anthem to love and community and building a life that works for you and yours.

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Not a pirate book

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-06-23

I've been waiting for a chance to do the audible free trial, and you know once again, beach time was perfect, so I did it, and it was all because I wanted to listen to this book, because it's narrated by Louise Barnes - she's an incredible actress I really enjoy, and first of all in this review, her narration is great!!! Her voice is good with pacing and transmitting emotion, and she also does the different voices for the characters which works really well to build up this world, and it's probably her that makes it up to a four stars!!! :D

Second of all, as a fan of pirate stories, this has very little pirating... Pirate shouldn't really be in the title of this, don't go into it expecting pirates, at all... It takes until half the book to get out into the water - and then I'll say it was cool to see how Talon knows the ship and the waters, and his knowledge coming through - and then that's over fast... but the worst fail to the pirate title, it's this complete loss of the fight for freedom, and the question of societal norms, of a life outside of societal constraints - there's talk of it, but it amounts to nothing... so you feel the potential of what could be, but you never take the final steps for that.

Thirdly, the romance is alright, this not my genre, it did not hit me in the feels, but it's not bad - it's fun, sensual and with an appropriate amount of angst. My disappointment comes with the other relationships here, especially when it comes to Daniel, at some point the book is developing is relationship with Kathryn and Talon so well, that I really felt they could do something really interesting and different here, and I had my hopes too high... They almost go the full cowardly way, which was making me very mad, they back track on it luckily, but it's still a coward way out, I still wanted more of the dynamic between the three of them, also more about Daniel and his relationships and views on attraction...

If you're into the romance genre, go for it, it's a good one!!! If you somehow ended up here because you love Black Sails and Miranda Barlow like myself, you can still read the book, just first scrub your brain from the knowledge of the show, because you'll keep comparing the two and wishing this was more...

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