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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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Wonderbook
Jeff VanderMeer

Abrams Image
isbn 9781419729669
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finished 20 Sep 2025

Made me think about:

  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Semiosis
Sue Burke

Tor
isbn 9780765391360
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finished 14 Sep 2025

Made me think about:

  • Red Mars
  • Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders

Random House
isbn 9780525509615
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finished 24 Aug 2025

Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199552573
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finished 18 Aug 2025

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

Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Josh Lauer

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231216630
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finished 16 Jul 2025

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

The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593192368
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finished 03 Jul 2025

Made me think about:

  • Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
  • The Belly of Paris
  • The Satanic Verses
  • The City We Became
  • Northanger Abbey

Disinformation
Frances Leviston

Picador Poetry
isbn 9781447271147
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finished 31 May 2025

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
Hugh (ed.) Howey

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063315785
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finished 31 May 2025

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
Mark Pyman, Paul M. Heywood

Palgrave Macmillan
isbn 9783031593369
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finished 30 May 2025

The Best American Short Stories: 2024
Lauren (ed.) Groff

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063275959
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finished 21 May 2025

The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
Philip Bowring

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781350427884
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finished 18 May 2025

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10, Volume 4: Old Demons
Christos Gage, Nicholas Brendon

Dark Horse
isbn 9781616558024
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finished 21 Apr 2025

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 11, Volume 1: The Spread of Their Evil
Joss Whedon

Dark Horse
isbn 9781506702742
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finished 15 Apr 2025

Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Helen Nissenbaum

Stanford Law Books
isbn 9780804752374
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finished 10 Apr 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Random House
isbn 9781984801203
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finished 05 Apr 2025

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber

Melville House
isbn 9781612195186
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finished 30 Mar 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America

Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer

MCD
isbn 9780374616595
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finished 20 Feb 2025

2025 total: 17
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