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."Haddon, Mark
Halberstam, J. Jack
J. Jack Halberstam November 15 2008
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Hall, Peter Geoffrey
Peter Geoffrey Hall August 01 2016
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Haraway, Donna
Haraway is someone I turn to to remind me what reality is like. In this book she continues her journey from feminist cyborg to Significant...
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Haraway, Donna J.
Donna J. Haraway May 17 2010
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Donna J. Haraway
Did I secretly read this book to give me air cover to watch animal odd-couple videos? Maybe. Did it reconfigure my model of self in the process? Yes.
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Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Jonathan Gil
Jonathan Gil Harris December 07 2008
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Hartl, Michael
Michael Hartl September 30 2011
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Haskell, David George
David George Haskell
This is a beautifully written book that is worth reading for its aesthetics alone. Haskell deploys words and imagery in a candidly poetic way that most contemporary fiction writers (maybe outside of Latin America?) don't allow themselves to do. I also appreciate his refusal to treat science, culture, and ethics as separate concerns. I was frustrated often by the attendant lack of focus: is this book about trees? Anthropology? Philosophy? Ecology? In the end this book is a very long and beautiful tone poem.. and a bit of a mess.
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Haun, Jeremy
Hawking, Stephen
Hawkins, Paula
Hays,Gregory,(trans.)
Haysom, Simone
w/ Beatrice Lamwaka, Neema Komba, Chike Frankie Edozien December 25 2021
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Heinlein, Robert A.
Robert A. Heinlein
This novel is deeply racist, gleefully misogynist, and unpleasantly cynical. It's smug, didactic, and thinly plotted. There are a couple of neat concepts buried in here. But my oh my, there's a lot to put up with in exchange. Bleh!
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Heller, Joseph
Heller, Peter
Hemingway, Ernest
Herbert, Frank
Herman, Arthur
Hesse, Hermann
Hibbets, Jason
Hodgkinson, Tom
Holland, Merlin
Holland, Tom
Holt, Vincent M.
Hosseini, Khaled
Houellebecq, Michel
Howard, June
Hunt, Lynn
Hyra, Derek S.
Derek S. Hyra
This is a thoughtful and important look at gentrification and neighborhood transformation in DC. It suffers badly from trying to pose as ethnography when it is actually more like an anthology of editorial essays. It also suffers from Hyra's insistence on coining phrases like "Cappuccino City" and "living the wire" that aren't, or don't appear to be, well connected to his research and his repeated claims to be advancing whole fields of academic research, such as intersectionality, in short chapters. That being said I would have gladly read an edition of this urgently needed book that was twice as long - especially if the extra page count were filled by quotes from the actual residents he spoke with.
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