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The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely …
She makes a good point and the whole Katrina section was a striking example by contrast. I was not buying the 9/11 section, however; that disaster did not provoke much utopianism at all.
I had an inkling of some of this stuff already, and there many volumes written on different aspects of it, but this is a good description of a pretty grim system, even when you take the animal welfare out of the analysis, as he (and the system, ofc) does
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a …
That was very cool, wish it was longer
When I read the first trilogy, I had no idea it would end up where it did. With this one, I feel like I know exactly where it's going, but that may be what he wants me to think. It is fun to return to this world again, let's continue to get out more in it and see all those other cultures beyond England
This book is from 2005, and it is more than a little chilling to read through its serial doomsday scenarios, and repeatedly shrug at the spot-on descriptions of various events of the past year. It sounds like if we reacted to an H5N1 outbreak like we did COVID, it would be many times worse than the Spanish Flu. Hello 2021!
I enjoyed that the book spent a lot of time in Burkina Faso, but otherwise I struggled to understand how or why the main character could be a spy (or why she needed to be, like her older sister), notwithstanding her attempt to answer this question, in the closing pages of the book, in response to a character who asks. I am also prejudiced against second-person narrations and epistolary novels, and this is both.
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and …
I love this guy. The Masque of the Red Death story was almost too on-the-nose, but enjoyable pandemic reading, and the Superman/BLM story was a good one too, albeit one that's been done in comics many times before
The definitive companion to Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles features articles by both scholars and fans that cover diverse facets of …
Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in …
Excellent book, and yes, I did have "We Know the Way" stuck in my head the whole time I was reading this
This is not a book about homeschooling, it is about abuse, and that made it hard to read for me. She is a very good writer, and very good at describing physical injury and the subjective experience of being physically assaulted, which led me to skim significant portions of the chapters in the middle section, which thankfully allowed me to finish the book quicker. It is tempting to ascribe any or all of this horribly abusive upbringing to the convergence of mental illness and survivalist zealotry, but the sad reality is that these tyrants of hearth and home are rife in communities everywhere, without reference to politics, creed, or material well-being. The fact that all of this happened two mountain ranges over from where I sit, in a corner of southeastern Idaho that I have never visited or considered previously, only adds color, not meaning. The rather live (and now, …
This is not a book about homeschooling, it is about abuse, and that made it hard to read for me. She is a very good writer, and very good at describing physical injury and the subjective experience of being physically assaulted, which led me to skim significant portions of the chapters in the middle section, which thankfully allowed me to finish the book quicker. It is tempting to ascribe any or all of this horribly abusive upbringing to the convergence of mental illness and survivalist zealotry, but the sad reality is that these tyrants of hearth and home are rife in communities everywhere, without reference to politics, creed, or material well-being. The fact that all of this happened two mountain ranges over from where I sit, in a corner of southeastern Idaho that I have never visited or considered previously, only adds color, not meaning. The rather live (and now, very public) nature of this intrafamily dispute is a little discomforting (see, e.g. this August 2020 newspaper interview with Mother: www.hjnews.com/news/local/mother-of-educated-author-tells-her-own-story-about-life-off-grid-in-idaho/article_c3f3e01c-5a81-53f1-8212-461b8670b897.html). All of that being said, when her Dad is miraculously nursed back to health after yet again foolishly endangering his own life for no good reason, and he then "described the explosion as a tender mercy from the Lord," claimed he "was never in any danger," and promised to immediately re-commence the dangerous activity that had caused the injury in the first place, I couldn't help but think of our Big Wet President feeling 20 years younger after COVID, and all the damage that a culture that promotes such thinking has wrought over the years.
It was an eventful organizing campaign and well-told, but I kept wishing it had been written by a lawyer, I had questions
The author of this book is currently the last member of the opposition leadership still in Belarus, because time is a flat circle
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it …
