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Typically I read two books simultaneously: one fiction, one non fiction. I love audiobooks, and usually follow the same pattern. So two books in text, two books in audio simultaneously. Sometimes, when I want to get through a book quick, I'll do both audio and text.
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chadkoh started reading Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #2)

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sophie Aldred (The Final Architecture, #2)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera …
chadkoh started reading The Liberal Virus by Amin, Samir.
chadkoh finished reading The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
Epilogue: Lotta right wing ethno-nationalism going around these days. But future is undeniably pluralist under threat of climate change. Gaza has had a big impact on the minds of the young: the vexed issue of bystanding, failure to assist victims, failure of elders. But they see more clearly “never again for anyone”
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
Decolonization, destruction of white supremecy, and battling ethnic-nationalism should be enough to bring together most of the work. Alas, no. Compares Zionism with White supremacism and Hindu supremacism, showing how the influences entangle. So many literary references! So righteous! The “colour line” undergirds this. We are all victims of modernity — clashing narratives of the Shoah, slavery, and colonialism.
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
From 1970s US unhealthy consumption of the Holocaust, then became primary producer of Shoah memory, which pulled it Right. Jewish replacement theory on the one hand, but pro-Israel on the other. Paradox? Hypocrisy? Israel as a leader in “civilization vs barbarism” which Christian Right follows. Decolonization is still happening today, and is a threat to Western powers and Israel.
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
Writes the terrible stuff Jews endured during the war, about attitudes towards Jews at the time and how they flipped. Holocaust remembrance became entry ticket to EU. German “phylosemitisim” lead to “a special preferential relationship without Israel seeing itself as obligated to reciprocate” same for US et al. Points out no war guilt towards the 100s of thousands of Africans that died in German colonies.
chadkoh commented on The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
Part 1: PM examines the Shoah and Israeli identity, how it changed to a sort of muscular victim. He talks about the sway of Zionism in pre-/post-colonial Asia, when nationalism flared. Like PM’s other books, he comes down hard on the hypocrisy of the West and its racial double standard. The danger is racist Ethno-nationalism, which reminds me of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s argument in The Message.
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chadkoh started reading The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Summer Tree is a 1984 novel written by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay and the first book of …
chadkoh finished reading The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers

The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers, Becky Chambers
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the 2014 debut science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, set in …
chadkoh finished reading The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager

The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own.At the dawn …
chadkoh started reading The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager

The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own.At the dawn …