Reading

Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so.

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Machado, Carmen Maria, (ed.)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

Mariner Books
isbn 9781328604378
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finished 16 Jan 2021

Maguire, Gregory

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)

William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060987107
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven

Knopf
isbn 9780385353304
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finished 08 Oct 2017

Mann, Charles C.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)

Vintage
isbn 9781400032051
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finished 07 Aug 2021

Made me think about:

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Marshall, Gail

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9780521615617
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finished 27 Mar 2010

Martel, Yann

Life of Pi

Seal Books
isbn 9780770430078
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Mask,Deidre

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

St. Martin's Press
isbn 9781250134769
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finished 23 Feb 2022

Massumi, Brian

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

Duke
isbn 9780822328971
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finished 15 Nov 2021

Maturin, Charles Robert

Melmoth the Wanderer

Penguin Books
isbn 9780140447613
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finished 31 Mar 2009

Mazzucato, Mariana

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

PublicAffairs
isbn 9780593656938
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finished 03 Jan 2019

Mbembe, Achille

Necropolitics

Duke University Press
isbn 9781478006510
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finished 12 Oct 2021

Made me think about:

Intersectionality

McCarthy, Cormac

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

Vintage Books
isbn 9780679747192
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finished 01 Feb 2016

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

Knopf Publishing Group
isbn 9780394574752
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finished 05 Jan 2015

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

Vintage
isbn 9780679744399
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finished 05 Nov 2014

No Country for Old Men

Vintage
isbn 9780375706677
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finished 15 Oct 2014

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Vintage Books
isbn
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finished 01 Jun 2014

The Road

Alfred A. Knopf
isbn 9780307265432
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finished 18 Feb 2014

All the Pretty Horses

Vintage
isbn 9780739412534
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finished 12 May 2008

McCloud, Scott

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060976255
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finished 27 Jun 2009

Made me think about:

Wonderbook

McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618084746
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finished 15 May 2009

McDougall, Christopher

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Knopf
isbn 9780307266309
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finished 11 Dec 2019

McGuire, Ian

The North Water

Henry Holt and Co.
isbn 9781627795944
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finished 01 Feb 2017

Meany, Edmond S.

History of the State of Washington

Theclassics.Us
isbn 9781230314402
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finished 06 Jul 2014

Medina, Eden

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

MIT Press
isbn 9780262525961
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finished 09 Apr 2024

Made me think about:

Melchiori, Barbara Arnett

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

Croom Helm
isbn 9780709935834
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finished 18 Sep 2009

Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick or, the Whale

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780142437247
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finished 01 Jan 2016

Mignola, Mike

Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593070915
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finished 31 May 2009

Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

Dark Horse Books
isbn 9781593070953
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finished 16 Sep 2008

Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593070946
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finished 01 May 2008

Millar, Mark

The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security

Marvel
isbn 9780785110781
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finished 23 May 2009

The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human

Marvel
isbn 9780785109600
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finished 10 Sep 2008

Superman: Red Son

DC Comics
isbn 9781401201913
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finished 05 May 2008

Miller, Frank

Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)

Dark Horse
isbn
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finished 19 May 2009

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

DC Comics
isbn 9781563893414
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finished 29 Jul 2008

Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072940
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finished 25 Apr 2008

Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072933
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Made me think about:

The Crow

Minogue, Valerie Pearson, (trans.)

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198736639
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finished 06 Dec 2022

Miri, Yu

Tokyo Ueno Station
Morgan Giles (trans.)

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593187524
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finished 08 Oct 2022

Mitchell, David

Slade House

Random House
isbn
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finished 18 Mar 2017

Miéville, China

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

Ballantine Del Rey
isbn 9780345459404
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finished 29 Dec 2016

The City & the City

Del Rey
isbn 9780345497512
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finished 21 Jan 2014

Made me think about:

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Monaco, Nick

Bots
Samuel Woolley

Polity Press
isbn 9781509543595
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finished 13 Sep 2022

Moore, Alan

Promethea, Vol. 3

WildStorm
isbn 9781401200947
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finished 21 Dec 2009

Promethea, Vol. 4

WildStorm
isbn 9781401200312
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finished 21 Dec 2009

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563898587
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finished 18 Oct 2009

Promethea, Vol. 2

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563899577
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finished 09 Aug 2009

Promethea, Vol. 1

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563896675
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finished 21 Dec 2008

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

Vertigo
isbn 9780930289225
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finished 20 Sep 2008

Watchmen

DC Comics
isbn 9780930289232
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finished 01 Sep 2008

Moore, Lorrie

The Best American Short Stories 2004

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618197354
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finished 12 May 2008

Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Knopf
isbn 9781400033416
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finished 19 Nov 2023

Beloved is every bit as heart-rending, beautiful, and erudite as I expected. It’s incredibly brilliant from a technical, writerly standpoint. I also appreciated its weaponization of the gothic novel genre for racial justice and black feminist purposes. In the gothic novel of the 18th/19th centuries, we often see captured women... more >>

Morville, Peter

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

O'Reilly Media
isbn 9780596527341
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finished 12 Feb 2019

Moshfegh, Ottessa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Penguin Books
isbn 9780525522133
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finished 05 Aug 2023

Made me think about:

Grief is for People

Murakami, Haruki

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

Vintage
isbn 9780307389831
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finished 21 Oct 2023

I don’t often re-read books, but this was a good choice. Murakami’s “running novelist” memoir turns out to also be a meditation on aging. This is not something I picked up on when I first read it, even though it wasn’t all that long ago. Murakami discusses his simultaneous growth... more >>