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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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Exit Strategy
Martha Wells

Tordotcom
isbn 9781250191854
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finished 15 Dec 2024

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
W. E. B. Du Bois

McSweeney's
isbn 9781952119514
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finished 11 Dec 2024

Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
Anita R. Ghodes

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780197772614
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finished 08 Dec 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Palestinine Laboratory
  • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
  • Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence

Penguin
isbn 9780141441498
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finished 23 Nov 2024

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

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis

Haymarket Books
isbn 9781642595680
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finished 07 Nov 2024

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Mariner Books Classics
isbn 9780547572291
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finished 27 Oct 2024

The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein

Verso
isbn 9781839762086
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finished 11 Oct 2024

Made me think about:

  • Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

True Confessions
John Gregory Dunne

Da Capo Press
isbn 9781560258155
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finished 08 Oct 2024

Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358856
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finished 28 Sep 2024

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Vintage
isbn 9781400078431
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finished 13 Sep 2024

I just finished reading Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and of course it’s all the things the everyone says: direct, heartbreaking, wise, necessary. One review included at the end of the edition I read says that it is vital reading “for any one who has lost some one... more >> 

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374610326
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finished 27 Aug 2024

Made me think about:

  • The City & the City
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
  • Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
  • Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
  • Publics and Counterpublics

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell

Random House Trade
isbn 9780593242728
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finished 31 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
  • Red Mars
  • Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  • Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
  • Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Crow
James O'Barr

Gallery Books
isbn 9781451627251
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finished 29 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

  • Grief is for People
  • The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
  • Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
  • I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)

Grief is for People
Sloane Crosley

MCD
isbn 9780374609849
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finished 20 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Crow
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  • Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

All Fours
Miranda July

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593190265
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finished 13 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Assommoir
Émile Zola, Brian Nelson (trans.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198828563
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finished 29 Jun 2024

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374531386
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finished 15 May 2024

Made me think about:

  • Grief is for People

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina

MIT Press
isbn 9780262525961
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finished 09 Apr 2024

Made me think about:

  • Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
Brendan O'Brien

Chicago Review Press
isbn 9781641609692
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finished 01 Apr 2024

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
John Gribbin

Bantam
isbn 9780553342536
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finished 27 Mar 2024

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz

Simon & Schuster
isbn 9781982146863
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finished 24 Mar 2024

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson

Pamela Dorman Books
isbn 9780593490693
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finished 24 Mar 2024

Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358849
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finished 10 Mar 2024

Introduction to Industrial Engineering
Bonnie Boardman, Jane M. Fraser (contributor)

Mavs Open Press
isbn 9781648169823
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finished 25 Feb 2024

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Del Rey Books
isbn 9780593358825
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finished 28 Jan 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Martian
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
  • Semiosis

2024 total: 25
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