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."

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B., David

Epileptic

Pantheon
isbn 9780375714689
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finished 01 Nov 2009

Bagge, Peter

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 2: Buddy Does Jersey, 1994-1998

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560978374
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finished 01 Feb 2009

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560976233
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finished 20 Nov 2008

Bampton, Claire

Dracula: A Classic Pop-Up Tale

Universe Publishing(NY)
isbn 9780789320506
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finished 16 Jan 2011

Banks, Russell

Continental Drift

Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060854942
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finished 05 May 2008

Banville, John

The Book of Evidence

Vintage
isbn 9780375725234
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finished 30 Mar 2022

The Sea

Vintage
isbn 9781400097029
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finished 05 Feb 2018

Bazzett, Michael, (trans.)

The Popol Vuh

Milkweed Editions
isbn 9781571314680
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finished 01 Jun 2022

Beah, Ishmael

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Sarah Crichton Books
isbn 9780374105235
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finished 23 Apr 2007

Bechdel, Alison

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780544387652
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finished 17 Jan 2022

Belford, Barbara

Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula

Knopf
isbn 9780679418320
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finished 09 Jan 2010

Bellamy, Edward

Looking Backward 2000-1887

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199552573
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finished 18 Aug 2025

Made me think about:

Bellos, David

Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780865478763
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finished 02 Oct 2020

Made me think about:

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Belting, Hans

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights

Prestel
isbn 9783791333205
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finished 08 Aug 2020

Bendis, Brian Michael

Avengers: Disassembled

Marvel
isbn 9780785114826
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finished 28 Jun 2009

Benjamin, Ruha

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Polity Press
isbn 9781509526406
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finished 31 Dec 2022

Made me think about:

Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

Bennett, Brit

The Vanishing Half

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780525536291
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finished 30 Jan 2021

Bennett, Marguerite

Animosity, Vol. 1: The Wake

AfterShock Comics
isbn 9781935002895
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finished 07 Mar 2018

Berendt, John

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Vintage
isbn 9780679751526
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finished 05 May 2008

Bergson, Henri

Creative Evolution

Cosimo Classics
isbn 9781596053090
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finished 20 Mar 2017

Berlant, Lauren

Cruel Optimism

Duke University Press
isbn 9780822351115
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finished 12 Jun 2021

Bird, George, (trans.)

Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov,

Melville House Publishing
isbn 9781935554554
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finished 11 Sep 2022

Made me think about:

A Hero of Our Time

Bleck, Jaimie

Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity in Change

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9781107162082
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finished 15 Aug 2019

Boardman,Bonnie

Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Jane M. Fraser (contributor)

Mavs Open Press
isbn 9781648169823
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finished 25 Feb 2024

Bolaño, Roberto

The Savage Detectives

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374191481
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finished 01 Oct 2014

The Skating Rink

New Directions
isbn 9780811217132
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finished 12 Apr 2012

Bourne, Richard

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

Zed Books
isbn 9781780329062
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finished 19 Dec 2022

Bowman, Paul, (ed.)

The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow,

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231149952
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finished 01 Oct 2022

Bowring,Philip

The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781350427884
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finished 18 May 2025

Bracco, Michael S.

Novo, Vol. 1: The Birth of Novo (Novo #1)

Alterna
isbn 9780979787447
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finished 03 Oct 2008

Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451

Del Rey
isbn 9788445074879
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finished 21 Apr 2007

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)

Harper Voyager
isbn 9780380729401
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finished 10 Feb 2007

Brandstätter, Sandra, (illus.)

Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner,

No Starch Press
isbn 9781718503182
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finished 26 Dec 2022

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 >>