Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Bagge, Peter
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 2: Buddy Does Jersey, 1994-1998
Banville, John
Belford, Barbara
Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
- The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Bellos, David
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Made me think about:
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Benjamin, Ruha
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Bird, George, (trans.)
Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov,
Made me think about:
- A Hero of Our Time
Bleck, Jaimie
Boardman,Bonnie
Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Jane M. Fraser (contributor)
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worldcat | bookshop | 9781648169823
Bolaño, Roberto
Bowring,Philip
Bradbury, Ray
Brandstätter, Sandra, (illus.)
Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner,
I was lucky to get my hands on a physical copy of Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream, by Matthias Kirshner (President of Free Software Foundation Europe) and illustrator Sandra Brandstätter. It’s a lovely children’s book about the joy of tinkering, open and closed... more >>
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worldcat | bookshop | 9781718503182
Brendon, Nicholas
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10, Volume 4: Old Demons
Christos Gage,
Brown, Adrienne Maree
Bryson, Bill
Burke, Edmund
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
Busch, Justin E.A.
The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
Butler, Judith
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Made me think about:
- Intersectionality
