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memetic_sisyphus Verified account @memeticsisyphus
I will be keeping a list of books read this year, along with a short review about them, and a rating.

The rating is a 1-5 scale:

5: This is one of my new favorite books
4: I would include this book on a list for anyone who asks for a book recommendation
3: I would recommend this book, but it would come with heavy caveats
2: I wouldn’t recommend reading, but I didn’t regret having spent time with it
1: I regretted reading this
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memetic_sisyphus Verified account @memeticsisyphus
Genuinely hilarious that the two books brought up are Great Expectations and Jane eyre, as if those are developmentally appropriate books for a 10 year old.
Luke Winkie @luke_winkie 3d
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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memetic_sisyphus Verified account @memeticsisyphus
Hatchet is about a boy building civilization in the wilderness.
Katie Campione @katie_campione 2d
Like I’m not even mad if you like Hatchet. Read whatever you want!!! Enjoy whatever you want!!! But women are not rolling their eyes at you liking a book. They are rolling their eyes at the continued sociological conditioning of boys and men to be violent and destructive.
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memetic_sisyphus Verified account @memeticsisyphus
I remember a discussion I had with a friend a long time ago. They disagreed with me when I called feminism a women’s advocacy movement. They insisted it was a women’s rights movement. I said that’s silly. I said when women win equality in places the feminist activism doesn’t stop. They continue to advocate and push for more women. And since men’s advocacy is basically illegal, the spaces end up becoming fully female.
The Atlantic Verified account @TheAtlantic 4d
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026/1…
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