christa started reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
had this loaded up on my ereader during a daylong tattoo session, so guess we’re starting it
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christa started reading Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
christa finished reading David Boring by Daniel Clowes
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
In this scan, eleven pages are missing from the beginning of the book.
christa started reading David Boring by Daniel Clowes
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
In this scan, eleven pages are missing from the beginning of the book.
christa wants to read El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca
El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa
El 14 de septiembre de 1940, 532 días después del final de la Guerra Civil española, José Celda fue fusilado …
christa finished reading The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
In …
@ink_and_moon yeah I think audiobook would be a great way to read this!
christa wants to read How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Angela Davis
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis
Work of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. Rodney makes the …
christa wants to read A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas
A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas
A Book of Memories (Hungarian: Emlékiratok könyve) is a 1986 novel by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas. The narrative follows …
christa wants to read Welcome to the desert of post-socialism by Srećko Horvat
@ink_and_moon I went ahead and wrote this little review to answer your question! bookwyrm.social/user/christa/review/3470815#anchor-3470815 the short of it is: I enjoyed it, didn't love it as literature, but would recommend if you're interested in more of her story. I also just watched that season!
christa reviewed Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
processing
3 stars
To me this feels like a book written by someone who is processing her own life and fairly late diagnosis with autism and sharing with us in real time. It's interesting to process it with her, although I might have enjoyed reading a more reflective work that comes later more. Maybe that will come later! There's also a lot of overlap in content with her standup, which makes sense—we have but one life to draw from.
Some specifics about why it didn't fully land for me: - Memoirs where people give a lot of detail to childhood events that are hard to believe anyone remembering in such detail always rub me the wrong way. - It felt like each story in the book was forced to tie into to her late autism diagnosis from a narrative standpoint, and I wish there was more space to just learn about her and …
To me this feels like a book written by someone who is processing her own life and fairly late diagnosis with autism and sharing with us in real time. It's interesting to process it with her, although I might have enjoyed reading a more reflective work that comes later more. Maybe that will come later! There's also a lot of overlap in content with her standup, which makes sense—we have but one life to draw from.
Some specifics about why it didn't fully land for me: - Memoirs where people give a lot of detail to childhood events that are hard to believe anyone remembering in such detail always rub me the wrong way. - It felt like each story in the book was forced to tie into to her late autism diagnosis from a narrative standpoint, and I wish there was more space to just learn about her and her experience without the heavy hand.
I'd recommend if you like her comedy work or are interested in the book description, though!
christa wants to read The Operating System by Eric Laursen
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it …
picked this up from Bound Together on a whim on a lunch break because I was curious about how he constructs the metaphor and whether it discusses modern social welfare programs (like Covid-19 response) in the context of anarchist alternatives, though this blurb is making me wonder how if it'll be anarchism 101:
Much of the ground Laursen covers in this book is already familiar to most anarchists. He does an adequate job, or better, at all of it. His treatment of the ideological hegemony of the state is exceptional, and deserves to be read alongside thinkers like Chomsky and Hermann