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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In August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa’s life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days …
Upheaval and trauma of partition fracturing a generational trail of women and families.
In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase …
Bizarrely horrific struggle for coexistence and release from under fear between well-matched but incongruous powers.
In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase …
Bizarrely horrific struggle for coexistence and release from under fear between well-matched but incongruous powers.
As the oldest daughter, willful, outspoken Sophie knew that her life could lead to nothing …
Fun, slapstick, and gross, mixed up identities and perspectives on fantasy and youth.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other …
Very part one, but good scary and wintry tale so far.
Recommended, but in a stack of long biographies I'm not getting through in recent years.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, "The Fire Next Time" galvanized the …
Short enough I'm not sure it's worth summarizing - the opening 7 page letter to his nephew covers nearly all the ground the following essay bores into - but in short, integration won't truly happen until white people take the log out of their own eye about their shortcomings and intolerance, and black people are going to have to keep suffering for it - but there is no future path for America except integration and living together in love that goes well beyond what religion practices in America. Extremely relevant to this day.
A year (after many years) of watching and tracking falcons on the English coast, of deeply seeing, and being seen by, all the birds' and landscape's orientation towards the soaring and diving predator's presence or absence.
A mix of mystery, ghoulish horror, and 19c glamor, mostly told through diaries, of rivalry and obsession and deceit. I re-watched the movie after finishing this, and both leave me unsatisfied, but the selected threads and sympathies are inverted and rearranged such that most of the scenes and storylines the book made vivid as if I remembered them... only exist there.
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability …
Inspiring and frank collection covering such a swath of disabilities and their lived experience and range of attitudes towards hope, exhaustion, justice, determination, bodily functions, love, anger. Essays of bluntly banal revelation as well as activism. Eye opening as promised in the title.
Mexico City in a recognizable now where travel to Mars is an unlikely dream of escape from routine gig economy poverty and class precarity.
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
Storyteller stories of intrigue and sweeping history, large and small. The strongest were in the middle, "Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Cities" and "Portrait of the Empress".
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other …
Actually did not read this as a kid.
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid …
An odd venture on all fronts, characteristically documented but why... other than that I like dirigibles, and so did these guys.
Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a …
Incredibly gorgeous rapid-fire galloping galaxy adventure... filled with one gruesome trauma after another and working through their anger and helplessness and loss. Lots of room for the series to be very deep, but for now a dark wound.