Sami

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Opinionated nerd, cat lover, plant enthusiast, engineering/physics post-doc, sometimes artist, too chaotic for my own good. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them Review blog: chattysami.wordpress.com

photo of the book The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, by Malka Older. the cover is mostly pink with a large abstract image of Jupiter and white stars; in the foreground are silhouettes of two women leaning/walking away from each other but looking back at each other
Reece looking angry, captioned saying "What do you mean? What's that supposed to mean?"
gif of Reece Shearsmith in Taskmaster looking irritated and moving his hands about. over top is a text post reading "Reece bringing immaculately irritated vibes to his conversation with Alex Horne within a mere 23 seconds of the first task."
section of a document titled "To do" - the section reads "At the moment, I don't know anything."
spines of three books, held up in front of a window with the blind down and plants on the sill. the books are Strange Buildings, Strange Houses, and Strange Pictures, all by Uketsu. they're all bright primary colours - yellow, blue, and red respectively.
key art for Please, Touch the Artwork, a yellow background with a framed piece of art behind a rope. the art is based on Mondrian's abstract art - horizontal and vertical overlapping lines in blue, red, and yellow. a cartoon hand is reaching out to touch the painting.
cover of Gideon the Ninth, a young woman dressed in black with red hair and skull face paint holding a sword. behind her is a mass of skeletons with bones and dust in the air as if there was an explosion, all against a black background.
photo of Geekerella, the cover background is a dark purple sky with stars fading downwards through pink to white. there's a bright orange, very rectangular food truck named The Magic Pumpkin; the driver has short green hair and is leaning out the window looking at a girl with long ginger hair wearing a formal blue dress and looking at her phone.
cover of Sheets, all in a clean comic style. a washing machine in a row of others showing a bedsheet ghost inside through the window, with two beams of light across it. the colours are all soft blues, greens, and whites/greys, with the title in light pink.
photo of Renegades, which shows a cityscape surrounding a big tower, all in shades of blue with red details. two characters' side profiles come out from the tower, one in a robotic suit with a thick visor, the other a young woman wearing a hood, with a strand of long hair poking out.
cover of The Princess Diaries, showing a simple stylised drawing of Mia the main character wearing a turquoise dress, combat boots, and a crown, next to a large fluffy orange cat. the background is blocks of pink/purple shades with a city skyline.
cover of Inferior, subtitled 'how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story'. the cover image is a greyscale photo of a women shoulders up in 50s dress with a blonde beehive, with the eyes and forehead torn out to show the title.
photo of Carry On, which has a dark purple background and the title and author at the top in mint green. at the bottom are drawings of two older teenage boys, one with ginger hair and a sword, the other with messy black hair and a wand. behind them blending in with the background is what looks like a dragon's head.
cover of The Secret Lives of Colour, thin vertical stripes of colour covering the whole page, from shades of black to browns, creams, greens, blues, purples, reds, pinks, oranges, yellows and finally whites and greys. the title and author are in white, with some of the stripes crossing in front of them
photo of Leila and the Blue Fox, a hardback book with a mostly icy blue cover and silver around the edges. in the middle is an arctic fox standing on an iceberg surrounded by water, and in the bottom left is a child in a heavy coat kneeling and reaching out to the fox.
cover of Hello World, subtitled 'Being Human in the Age of Algorithms'. the subtitle is in connected yellow boxes/diamonds like an algorithm or flow chart, with some of the connections being letters of the title; the background is a bright turquoise.
convert of Persepolis, mostly black, white, and grey with some turquoise. on the left is an outline illustration of a women's face resting on her hand from the side; in the centre is a cloud bubble (like a thought bubble) showing a family - an older women and young girl sitting on a sofa, and standing behind it three middle-aged people: a woman and two men.
cover of The Sad Ghost Club, a monochrome painting of a sad-looking sheet ghost in front of a dark sky and trees, with the moon and title in bright yellow. the subtitle is Find Your Kindred Spirits
cover of Because Internet, a plain yellow background with black text, and the subtitle highlighted in blue like on a phone screen. the subtitle is Understanding the New Rules of Language
photo of Infomocracy (paperback), an intricate, busy design of arrows, crosses, warning symbols, little factory buildings, 'walk' pedestrian crossing symbols, and more; mostly in blue on black, with the symbols in red
an old hardback copy of The Little White Horse, the cover is a pencil drawing of a white unicorn running into the woods, followed by a young white girl in a light blue poofy dress; in the distance is a castle on a hill
cover of Daughter of the Moon Goddess, mostly dark green with pink flowers with stems around the edge. in the centre is a large white glowing circle (like the moon but with no detail) with the title and author.
cover of Invisible Women, a bright red background with mint green 'man' symbols (like on public toilets), each with a dark red 'woman' symbol right behind it
cover of All Systems Red, a person wearing a sci-fi armoured spacesuit that also covers their face. they're looking straight forwards, and the background is abstract trees and vegetation.
photo of Everything is OK in front of a Christmas tree. the book cover shows an illustrated girl sitting down hugging her knees, with a black scribbly cloud coming from her head
Cover of Five on a Treasure Island, showing the Famous Five (four kids and a dog) in a rowing boat heading for an island with a beached ship
Cover of Hench, dark red with the title filling half the space. at the top is a silhouette of a woman, and her shadow shows her wearing a cape
Stack of three copies of We Should All Be Feminists, a slim book which has a bright orange cover with a regular design of half black half cream circles
Cover of Bridge to Terabithia, dark silhouettes of two kids on opposite sides of a gully, one standing and one on a tree-swing. in the background is an outline of a castle in orange and yellow, surrounded by red and purple. the rest of the cover is blue
Cover of Inkheart, abstract illustrations in mostly shades of green with red, including a girl reading a book at the top, and at the bottom some smaller characters (man, unicorn, dog) on an open book
Penguin paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice, a light orange background with a repeating pattern of swans and flowers in orange and grey.
Cover of Monstress vol 1, an illustration of an East Asian woman with long dark hair looking over her shoulder at the viewer, her left hand is a wooden prosthetic. the background has an intricate gold art deco and steampunk design
MinaLima edition of Frankenstein, mostly blue and gold with various small illustrations: an eye, two faces with lightning between them, a lab with a futuristic-looking coffin
Cover of The Princess Diarist, a close-up profile of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, showing part of her face and focussing on a side bun, which has a pen poking through it.
Cover of The Gift, a dark pink background with a fantasy-style map, and a silver ring with leaf details
Cover of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, shows a night sky with hundreds of stars, with a small silhouette at the bottom of a woman in a hill. A sticker says "Winner of the Hugo Award for best series".
Group of vegetable soft toys, including a banana in a wooly hat, a peach, some corn with a wooly hat, a strawberry, and a carrot.
Glass bowl with lid shaped like a ghost, filled with white stones and moss balls and water
three moss balls in a plastic tub of water
front cover of 'Things from the Flood' by Simon Stålenhag - it's an illustration of a humanoid robot staring ahead and wrapped in a tattered cloth, standing in a pond in a wood
five digital Pokémon cards: shiny celebi ex, shiny pidgeot ex, full art Gladion, full art Buzzwole ex, and shiny froakie
Grey tabby cat lying on a bed, and a hand scratching under her chin.