Emily Gorcenski started reading In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
Still working through some backlog, but at least I’m in the 2020s now! Excited to read this radical view of riots and racial justice.
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Emily Gorcenski finished reading Silicon Values by Jillian York
How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism …
A great look at the utter failure of duty among social media companies, a book that raises questions about where we are going in the world.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5) by James S. A. Corey
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television …
That didn’t take long—burned through this book. It’s my favorite so far. Sadly I have to wait to continue… the next four books are waiting for me in Virginia.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5) by James S. A. Corey
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television …
Started Book 5 of the Expanse series. Although I didn’t like Season 5 as much, it did have the series best episode, and I am liking the book a lot. I’ve already burned through 330 pages.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
[William V. Lipton][1] from Ann Arbor, MI says: "This is both a coming-of-age novel and …
On to #29 on the Modern Library list. This trilogy, bound in a single volume, follows the coming of age and death of the protagonist, Studs Lonigan, in Depression-era Chicago.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Silicon Values by Jillian York
How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism …
Finally sitting down with Jillian’s book!
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 4, #4)
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush …
Wrapped up book 4 of the Expanse, what a damn fine series, can’t wait to jump into book 5
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, …
A complex and deeply personal tale, one that I cannot ever fully understand.
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Like one of the kids is revealed as trans in a big dramatic scene, but… why? It doesn’t come up later and adds nothing to the story. There’s a lesbian sex scene which is gratuitous, not in the sense of being graphic, but in the sense of being completely unnecessary. Subtlety would have added to the intended effect, amplifying the richness of the relationship more. The main characters are women of color, which is supposed to serve as some commentary on privilege or whatever, but the only tension this fact creates in the story is expressed through the main character’s internal musings, and not through any sort of interaction or setting in the story.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with …
This was…. Just not very enjoyable to me. It smacks of Twitter-era representation lit. What metaphor is there is heavy-handed, there are scenes and motifs that make no sense to the story and add nothing to the story’s depth. It’s a set of confusing decisions which underlay a plot so linear and simple that it leaves no sense of wonder or anticipation.
Emily Gorcenski started reading Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, …
On to #39 on the Modern Library list, and the second entry by a Black writer thus far
Emily Gorcenski finished reading We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Picked up this novella to read on a flight. A realistic and disturbing look into the margins, a told in a way only a queer woman can tell it, with increasingly disturbing turns.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'
One of the …
A short little quirky read from an era where writers could write quirky things and feel like it’s a living. There’s some interesting thoughts here on taxonomies. Killed an hour or 90 minutes of a flight.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Women in love by D. H. Lawrence (Penguin classics)
Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in …
This is really “Men in Love,” let’s be honest. Though the focus is on the Brangwen sisters and the contrast in the fulfillment of their relationships with Gerald and Rupert, the real heartbreak of the novel is the love Rupert and Gerald have for each other and how they’re unable, each in their own ways, to cope with this. Very gay, I cried at the end.
Emily Gorcenski finished reading Tit-For-tat Media by Katrien Jacobs
An interesting collection of essays on the depiction of gender, sexuality and bodies in protest movements, with an interesting look into how Pepe the Frog was reclaimed by the Hong Kong Democracy movement