Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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82% complete! loppear has read 74 of 90 books.
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun …
Eagerly giving this a re-read by audiobook for the first time, which is the fullest-cast full-cast production.
Save one world. Doom her own.
From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes …
A delightful heist buddy crew against the odds space marines aliens in all configurations inscrutable galactic menace histories of oppression misunderstanding and hope. Also, a bit light and scattered.
Personally revealing comic essays, uninhibited philosophical reflection and genitalia and cat butts, with a sophisticated depth of introspection on perception, action, and the complexity of the modern world.
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence …
Each element is pristine and sun-baked here, like the setting: reluctant detective on the murder case, wealthy aesthetic recluse, mundanely dystopian AI. And as spare translucent noir, I enjoyed it.
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
One young woman’s voice―intense and poetic―grapples with universal ideas as it chronicles a personal journey …
tears up anyways thoughts to come.
@fionnain same, probably only saw it from your read, jumping in with no further ideas.
A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Thai author Saneh Sangsuk. The …
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times …
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
Compelled to return to the frontlines of madness, clawing for oblivion in the face of evils and devils, a glint of compassion and sanity from another human sharing the experience. Deftly haunting storytelling.
What a delightful sprawling madcap slice of New York. Dark and funny, an overwhelming cast and set of threads and diversions. Did any of it matter? Does it voice a rosy cozy gritty 60s or grimly stubborn mid-point between southern oppression and modern violence of drugs and poverty? As recommended to me, the audiobook is an absorbing performance.
Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in …
Wasteways and waste regimes, this points to larger intersectional issues of production, consumption, and political-institutional capture - but is primarily a close comparison of waste management policy in Boston & Seattle in the 1980s and 90s, focused on ultimately narrow variations in recycling programs and citizen input, and how those are compliant or resistant to our national narrative of trash.
Atmospheric, crashing ocean surf, tangled beaten bodies at the edge of land and sea. The title collection most coherent to me, the overall sense of storm-tossed black Carribean experience more than any particular line or shape.
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association …
Intrigued by the rapidly burgeoning scientific research on plant capacities, a climate journalist turns to current questions of intelligence, consciousness, and sociality. Overlaps with Franz de Waal, Donna Haraway, Future Ecologies, etc in pushing at our human-centered and exploitative perspective on the world to wonder what it would mean to consider our intellectual capacities diffused to all distant kin.
