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."L'Amour, Louis
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Lamwaka, Beatrice
Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom,
Neema Komba,
Chike Frankie Edozien
Landow, George P.
Lapham, David
Larsson, Stieg
Latour, Bruno
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Lauer, Josh
Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
- The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
- Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Lawrence, D. H.
Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Made me think about:
- All Fours
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Anthem
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
- The Unraveling
- Just Kids
- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Lazell, Marguerite
Le Carré, John
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
A fun read, but. It’s interesting to read about Le Carré’s reception as the deliverer of a more “realistic” spy than James Bond at the time of publication. His anti-hero in this book is edgier but basically just reads like a nihilistic, alcoholic misogynist in largely the same mold through... more >>
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu,
As a foundational text of human spirituality, philosophy, and politics, The Tao Te Ching is obviously worth reading on its own merits. Let alone that it’s beautiful and succinct. One thing I found especially interesting in reading this translation by noted badass Ursula K. Le Guin is that, as she... more >>
Made me think about:
- The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
- Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Lermontov, Mikhail
A Hero of Our Time
Made me think about:
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Death and the Penguin
Lessig, Lawrence
Leucht, Brigitte, (ed.)
Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to Present
Katja Seidel (ed.),
Laurent Warlouzet (ed.)
Levine, Caroline
Liu, Eric
Loewenstein, Antony
The Palestinine Laboratory
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
London, Jack
Lorenz, Taylor
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Love, Heather
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
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worldcat | bookshop | 9780226761107
Luciano, Dana
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Grief is for People
Lynd, Staughton
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Daniel Gross