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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With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period …
Smart, spare, intriguing.
I guess I'm going to have to accept the trend of "novella trilogies", this stands alone but.
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a …
At the end of his split from leading the Sierra Club, three essays and adventures spent with him and a likely nemesis in the terrain: an advocate of mining Cascades Wilderness, of developing Cumberland Island, and of damming the Colorado and Grand Canyon. Fascinating for being an earlier era of conservation but still entirely recognizable arguments for access for people's needs vs saving the earth and humanity's dependence on a functioning ecosystem. Masterful journalistic project to record these titans on the land they are debating.
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her …
I enjoyed this, and the feeling of falling out with your best friend, reliving the rumors and reasons, and growing beyond that friendship. A little light in the end.
In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across …
Powerful poems, but only letting some light fall on the murky complexity of struggling war-torn lives - I have loved hearing her lyrically relate the stories of several of these in interviews and talks, while the poems themselves are spare and careful.
This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal …
Longform essays in his ride-along style, on the people and logistics of moving stuff in the early 2000s (so UPS automation and coal trains get chapters). Some jarring casually sexist moments.
Short stories by award-winning science fiction writer, James Triptree, Jr. Stories include adventures in outer …
Mostly all excellent, dark space-twinged twists on leaving and not coming back.
If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care …
Wonderful voice to a teenager growing up fast, and a real sense of agency, mistakes, and learning. Lightly set in the past, strikes a good balance of nostalgia and relevance.
From planting time in autumn through high blue winter days to rich, hectic weeks of …
Yes, lots about growing garlic, and northern New Mexico seasons. A solid entry in the genre of environmental and philosophical essays written over long spans of reflecting while sitting on a tractor or walking the rows, the sharpest points are in his interactions at markets, asking what vampires we're all afraid of or whether in his considerations of organic inputs and outputs he should interrogate his customers back about where their dollars footprints trace.
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her …
Wonderful unheroic postscript to the series, the view from age and infirmity and powerlessness of the breakdown of a society built on acquiring and wielding power. From LeGuin's afterword, "the anger of an underdog at social injustice. ... [transcending to] no longer identifying freedom with power, with separating being free from being in control."