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This was written back in 2004, before the DSM update that put Aspergers under ASD. I'm not keen on having my neurotype associated with a Nazi eugenicist. But even that aside, I found the book to be pathologizing, sexist, and ableist. I'm sure the authors' hearts were in the right place, but in the view of this autistic adult, it severely missed the mark.
Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first in a series …
I know a lot of people liked this book. Maybe I'm not the intended audience. I don't do well with metaphor and I have no idea what this book was about.
In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be …
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …
This is a first-person anecdotal account of a single relationship. The organization of the material is confusing; it's not chronological, but it's also not topic based. It almost feels like a stream of consciousness, with the author jotting down inspirational quotes, memories of interactions with her husband, her perceptions about neurodivergent cognition, or whatever else came to mind. Between the lack of organizational structure and the lack of anything outside personal anecdotes, I found this book to be an interesting glimpse into a particular relationship, but I found very little I could apply to my own relationship.
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, …
Not a novel as there isn't really a story or a satisfying conclusion. More like a thought experiment about a possible future where industry is mostly abandoned in favor of a society focused on ecological stability.
