ingrid finished reading Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil
For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches …
<3 <3 <3 truly excellent
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ingrid finished reading The tainted desert by Valerie Kuletz
Also for school; dense at times but good!
ingrid finished reading Discard Studies by Max Liboiron
For school, very good
ingrid finished reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a 2023 memoir and political analysis by …
Did the audiobook of this and enjoyed it enough to get a print copy for reference. In the best way possible it is basically Naomi Klein having an existential crisis, and it has been helpful for me thinking about the various existential crises of the day.
ingrid finished reading Mining Capitalism by Stuart Kirsch
For school. Not sure how much of a theoretical framework it provides but a really helpful history of globalized environmental campaigns.
ingrid finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The …
Did the audiobook. Fun! I will probably do the rest of this series.
ingrid finished reading Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Actually read this in October or November for school, need to check date. It's a banger.
ingrid finished reading How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
Content warning I mean it's a book about suicide so bear that in mind
I don't love that this book was extremely helpful and relevant to me, personally, but it was! I think it helps that Clancy Martin seems like a pretty fucked up guy who has done some pretty awful shit and doesn't hide any of it--meaning it's not a redemption story about overcoming suicidality and more about living with suicidality in the day to day.
ingrid finished reading The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake …
Technically re-read this for a class but it felt new, hard to explain.
ingrid finished reading Life on Ice by Joanna Radin
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in …
Also read for class. Histories of refrigeration are weird enough but histories of freezing blood are weird as hell!!
ingrid finished reading Savage Kin by Margaret M. Bruchac
I read this last month for my history of science methods class. A lens onto the history of anthropology I was not very aware of and a really remarkable work of archival research!
ingrid finished reading Material World by Ed Conway
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform …
Was asked to write a review of this book (this is not the review, just me logging it). It's very weird to read a whole book about key commodities and supply chains that treats capitalism and colonialism as basically a tertiary angle of the narrative? There's a lot of well-meaning gee-whiz language here that I am maybe too cynical for. Some pretty good "how it works" type writing for complex industrial processes, though.
ingrid finished reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the …
Did the audiobook of this while I had a fever. Appropriate, as the novel itself has a lot of fever dream vibes.
ingrid finished reading The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael …
(Full disclosure I went to high school with Paz) This was a fun alternate-history noir!
ingrid finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So …
Did the audiobook. Very fun!