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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Machado, Carmen Maria, (ed.)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

worldcat | bookshop | 9781328604378

16 Jan 2021
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Maguire, Gregory

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

worldcat | bookshop | 9780060987107

03 Mar 2008
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Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven

worldcat | bookshop | 9780385353304

08 Oct 2017
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Mann, Charles C.

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

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

worldcat | bookshop | 9781400032051

07 Aug 2021
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Marshall, Gail

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

worldcat | bookshop | 9780521615617

27 Mar 2010
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Martel, Yann

Life of Pi

worldcat | bookshop | 9780770430078

03 Mar 2008
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Mask,Deidre

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

worldcat | bookshop | 9781250134769

23 Feb 2022
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Massumi, Brian

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

worldcat | bookshop | 9780822328971

15 Nov 2021
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Maturin, Charles Robert

Melmoth the Wanderer

worldcat | bookshop | 9780140447613

31 Mar 2009
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Mazzucato, Mariana

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

worldcat | bookshop |

03 Jan 2019
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Mbembe, Achille

Necropolitics

Made me think about:
- Intersectionality

worldcat | bookshop | 9781478006510

12 Oct 2021
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McCarthy, Cormac

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

worldcat | bookshop | 9780679747192

01 Feb 2016
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780394574752

05 Jan 2015
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780679744399

05 Nov 2014
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No Country for Old Men

worldcat | bookshop | 9780375706677

15 Oct 2014
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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01 Jun 2014
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The Road

worldcat | bookshop | 9780307265432

18 Feb 2014
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All the Pretty Horses

worldcat | bookshop | 9780739412534

12 May 2008
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McCloud, Scott

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

worldcat | bookshop | 9780060976255

27 Jun 2009
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McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

worldcat | bookshop | 9780618084746

15 May 2009
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McDougall, Christopher

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

worldcat | bookshop | 9780307266309

11 Dec 2019
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McGuire, Ian

The North Water

worldcat | bookshop | 9781627795944

01 Feb 2017
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Meany, Edmond S.

History of the State of Washington

worldcat | bookshop | 9781230314402

06 Jul 2014
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Medina, Eden

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
- Looking Backward 2000-1887

worldcat | bookshop | 9780262525961

09 Apr 2024
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Melchiori, Barbara Arnett

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

worldcat | bookshop | 9780709935834

18 Sep 2009
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Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick or, the Whale

worldcat | bookshop | 9780142437247

01 Jan 2016
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Mignola, Mike

Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593070915

31 May 2009
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Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593070953

16 Sep 2008
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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593070946

01 May 2008
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Millar, Mark

The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security

worldcat | bookshop | 9780785110781

23 May 2009
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The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human

worldcat | bookshop | 9780785109600

10 Sep 2008
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Superman: Red Son

worldcat | bookshop | 9781401201913

05 May 2008
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Miller, Frank

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

worldcat | bookshop |

19 May 2009
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

worldcat | bookshop | 9781563893414

29 Jul 2008
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Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593072940

25 Apr 2008
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Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)

Made me think about:
- The Crow

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593072933

03 Mar 2008
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Minogue, Valerie Pearson, (trans.)

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,

worldcat | bookshop | 9780198736639

06 Dec 2022
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Miri, Yu

Tokyo Ueno Station
Morgan Giles (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780593187524

08 Oct 2022
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Mitchell, David

Slade House

worldcat | bookshop |

18 Mar 2017
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Miéville, China

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780345459404

29 Dec 2016
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The City & the City

Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

worldcat | bookshop | 9780345497512

21 Jan 2014
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Monaco, Nick

Bots
Samuel Woolley

worldcat | bookshop | 9781509543595

13 Sep 2022
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Moore, Alan

Promethea, Vol. 3

worldcat | bookshop | 9781401200947

21 Dec 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 4

worldcat | bookshop | 9781401200312

21 Dec 2009
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

worldcat | bookshop | 9781563898587

18 Oct 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 2

worldcat | bookshop | 9781563899577

09 Aug 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 1

worldcat | bookshop | 9781563896675

21 Dec 2008
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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

worldcat | bookshop | 9780930289225

20 Sep 2008
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Watchmen

worldcat | bookshop | 9780930289232

01 Sep 2008
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Moore, Lorrie

The Best American Short Stories 2004

worldcat | bookshop | 9780618197354

12 May 2008
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Morrison, Toni

Beloved

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 >>

worldcat | bookshop | 9781400033416

19 Nov 2023
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Morville, Peter

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

worldcat | bookshop | 9780596527341

12 Feb 2019

Moshfegh, Ottessa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Made me think about:
- Grief is for People

worldcat | bookshop | 9780525522133

05 Aug 2023
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Murakami, Haruki

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

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 >>

worldcat | bookshop | 9780307389831

21 Oct 2023
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