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."
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd,
Daniel Gross
Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
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
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
John Fire Lame Deer
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu,
Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th Edition
Jay M. Feinman
Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family
Greg Rucka
Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift
Greg Rucka
Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave
Greg Rucka
Leaf Supply: A Guide to Keeping Happy House Plants
Lauren Camilleri
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton
I have grown to really appreciate concise, idea-packed writing. This book meets those criteria. It takes an existential view to the global climate crisis, asking us to confront the fact that it might already be too late to save what we have as a precondition to meaningful action. What I... more >>
Made me think about:
- Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
- The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis