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××××× (bookwyrm) stopped reading Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
stopped reading. i don't really like self-help/activity sort of books.
××××× (bookwyrm) finished reading Think Least of Death by Steven Nadler
started, stopped, then started and, now, have finished. it's a relatively short book about spinoza's philosophy and death. not sure if the book itself was boring or the narration, but it was very difficult to pay attention to at points.
××××× (bookwyrm) finished reading From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Pretty good book. Interesting to learn about the different ways that cultures think about death and prepare bodies after death. Did like her memoir "Smoke Gets Into Your Eyes" better though.
××××× (bookwyrm) started reading From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Book about the death practices of different cultures past and present. I love how uplifting and non-morbid Caitlin Doughty makes death sound and her project to try to cultivate a more healthy relationship to death for other people.
Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds. This was already true of the previous case. But now the components are used for organizing a space, not for the momentary determination of a center. The forces of chaos are kept outside as much as possible, and the interior space protects the germinal forces of a task to fulfill or a deed to do. This involves an activity of selection, elimination and extraction, in order to prevent the interior forces of the earth from being submerged, to enable them to resist, or even to take something from chaos across the filter or sieve of the space that has been drawn.
Makes me think of abiogenesis. enclosing an area with a rudimentary cell wall that allows you the ability to organize and regularize certain functions in a way that opposes the chaos of primordial soup. also i should read about Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Dissipative Systems but that's neither here nor there.
××××× (bookwyrm) commented on A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateau calls (again)...
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@alsaaas@bookrastinating.com also kill la kill is so good
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@alsaaas@bookrastinating.com lol, yeah
××××× (bookwyrm) set a goal to read 64 books in 2025
××××× (bookwyrm) finished reading Morning Glory Milking Farm by C M Nascosta
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i am so much more efficient bookwise when i gotta commute!
i started reading this book because i saw it was pretty well reviewed even though it is like hetero monster fantasy smut.
this book has a lot of cock milking in it. i think cock milking is very hot and when the book does it it does it pretty well. i like the very clinical nature of a lot of the milking.
i like the book less when the lady who is milking minotaurs to help pay off her debt falls for one of the minotaurs. their relationship feels pretty patriarchial and heteronormative. at one point he says that when they have sex she gets to be in control but at one point she's lusting hard for his big minotaur cock and he just puts it away then is like "i don't wanna hurt you, i'm too big for you without preparation, so you'll have to come to my house this weekend for a 3 day long fuckfest" (paraphrased). It felt very infantalizing and makes it clear that any control she has is because he allows it.
after their relationship is consumated, the main character goes to her minotaur guy and is like "are you still okay with me working at the minotaur milkery?" i hate that shit, it feels weird and patriarchial.
prior to them getting into a relationship they have an accordion sort of relationship where they are misinformed about each other's availability in ways that lead to them both pulling away and then getting closer again which feels like it could be avoided with just communication. i hate that sort of thing.
the prose is functional. the audiobook is functional. the book would've been better if the main character was a guy and he was milking the knotted cocks of werewolves. all books need at least a little cock milking.
××××× (bookwyrm) finished reading Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari : Intersecting Lives by François Dosse
Got back to the D&G biography and finally finished it. It's a phenomenal work that seems to have involved a lot of interviews by the author. I liked learning more about how The Boys differed and their personal and philosophical relationships with other philosophers/activists.
One thing I always forget about philosophical biographies is that they're not always easy reading and frequently go into the ideas of the philosopher or the topics of their books. It's probably good that they do it but I was just here for the events.
I am glad to have finished this book because it has been looming over me for awhile. Now I an free (and simultaneously made unfree again because I am returning to A Thousand Pleateaus after this)
A book of short stories by the creator of Bojack Horseman. They're really zany and strange and generally enjoyable to listen to. That being said, I kind of wish they were very nihilistic and depressing and could worm their way into my very soul like Bojack Horseman has.
××××× (bookwyrm) finished reading The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
Pretty good book. it's essentially a murder mystery that's very matter of fact, very violent, and with a lot of explicit sex. i still like less than zero a lot more because it has a certain mood to it and no plot and this book is diminished in that mood but has a plot.
××××× (bookwyrm) wants to read Pro Git by Scott Chacon
Pro Git is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. …
seems like the Git Bible. I am curious enough to at least try reading it. It's like 400+ pages which confuses the hell out of me because you just pull, commit, merge, and push right?