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finished reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future (Paperback, 2021, Orbit)

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …

I never know if I should post the books that I listen to as audio books while falling asleep - like I technically read it, but if you asked me to summarize it, I suspect I'd be missing some big chunks.

finished reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone (Hardcover, 2012, Henry Holt)

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, …

this was fine - I guess I must have been subliminally advertised to, since the new season of the show is coming out.

read real fast, but sorta breaks any rules that it sets up. Maybe I'm asking too much from fantasy YA.

started reading The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine (Hardcover, 2007, Metropolitan Books)

An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …

I don't post here enough do I.

I've been reading this for a few weeks, about halfway done. Having fun reading all this bush / obama era left popular history.

commented on Agency by William Gibson

William Gibson: Agency (2020, Penguin Books, Limited)

Content warning elliptical notes on core characters / motivations

reviewed American War by Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad: American War (2017, Vintage)

this was ok

Well written enough to get through, but frustrating in its lack of engagement with the effects of climate change. This may have been an expectation issue, I heard about this book in relationship to folks changing their outlooks, but it takes two existing conflicts (US wars in the middle east, and the US civil war) and attempts to cram them into a rising sea level world.

finished reading The Long Walk by Stephen King

Stephen King: The Long Walk (Paperback, 1999, Signet Group, Penguin Group)

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are …

I've seen this referenced so many places recently, thought it was worth a read. Ggood horror grind though a very much 1970s teenage boys are the pov characters.