Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces …
Sharp satire about hubris and business and PKD's mind-bending doubts about what is real and what is in your mind quite explicit here, aged better than most things of this era... and I ultimately didn't care much about where the story went.
In "With a Daughter's Eye," writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on …
Capable biographical memoir, intentionally capturing her personal insights into her parents lives and the varying ways they sought patterns of meaning in the world around them. Both of them are more interesting to me now, and the habits of introspection and analysis they openly developed in their daughter shine through here.
The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the …
Cinematic whodunnit, some of the turns from dialog to narrated action here are wonderfully written, I might watch the movie, but I'm ready to admit that noir fiction's male navel gazing is not my reading pleasure.
Feminism in rejecting or reversing society's roles in Muslim India 1900... wasn't for me.
In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to …
Lessons to be learned about hubris and mathematically-backed ideological confidence, Wall Street's internal FOMO and ruthlessness, and just general foolishness. Diversification is misleading when all the same investors are in all the same markets. Title is unsupported in this narrative, there's little genius on display here, and suffers somewhat for being written so soon after the event. The details are clear after 50 pages, followed by a lot of blow-by-blow.
"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov …
Interplay of subtle and disturbing otherworldly moments to capture so recognizably the transition from high school to college and the variety of struggles to grasp advanced subjects' - maybe math, maybe language, maybe psychology or sociology - beauty and explanatory power.
The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the …
When I hear M. R. Kowal's "The Spare Man" is "The Thin Man, In Space", I figure I have time to read "The Thin Man" first.
"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov …
Will have to think on this. Engrossing.
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient …
Delightful fun at the expense of colonizers and missionaries, the small Rwandan town inevitably bends with the larger world but their storytellers argue their way to an understanding.
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik …
Genuinely gentle, expansive, reverent, mindful, and adorable.
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and …
Trauma and forgiveness, misunderstanding and war. "Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet."
"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov …
Book club has decided on first of a series which isn't translated after this one? Ok then!
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered …
Inside the reporting of the Weinstein story, long unchecked male power and wealth. The additional turns in the story of many layers of media complicity and the extent of resources turned against women and journalists... investigative journalism's importance beyond career or advertising revenue shines here. The audiobook includes one key disturbing original audio clip, and also has Farrow doing the whole range of character accents.
Choppy writing veering from personal history to technical, the argument for evolutionary genesis by "living together" symbiosis at the cell level is convincing more because it's already largely accepted at the time of this popular account?
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. …
Humble academic conversant philosophy, interrogating why we can't settle on a ethics based in removing contamination or suffering or bad things or stripping down to some innocence, especially in realms of consumption or oppression. Points in a collective interconnected liberatory direction, from topics including colonial settling, AIDS and disability and transgender activism, climate and interspecies justice, and that to be human (without overly centering humanity) is to be impure, contingent, and political.