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25% complete! Lucas has read 10 of 39 books.
Sometimes brilliant or insightful or heart-felt, other times dense with convoluted “great blessings” and descriptions of truths beyond truth and etc.
I don’t usually pick up nor enjoy autobiography, but this one I did. It’s good for his thinking about writing and for the drama of his life.
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and …
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and …
"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the …
Reading together with my partner
Intriguing to consider the ways considerations and expectations of death were changed by the American Civil War. I appreciate how the author examined so many facets, and at various scales.
I learned much from Caliban and the Witch, but this follow up seems to me like more of an executive summary and hand-holding appendix to that work than something that really stands on its own. The essay on the etymology of "gossip" was interesting; the latter two essays do help connect the dots with the arguments regarding the witch-hunts in the late-medieval/early-modern periods with the 90's and early 2000's—but it's otherwise a re-statement of the theses in Caliban. Had I read this before Caliban, perhaps I would not feel like I do about it.
