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I primarily listen to audiobooks using Libby, and sometimes Audible. Feel free to ask me about how I have 10 cards on Libby.

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2025 Reading Goal

57% complete! Pixel has read 29 of 50 books.

Lola Milholland: Group Living and Other Recipes (2024, Spiegel & Grau LLC)

A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning …

She opened by describing her childhood in the fifties. “It was the era of Father Knows Best,” she sneered... “In the sixties, I became a disinheritor,” she announced proudly, a finger pointed at the crowd. A few people cheered like sports fans—“Yeah! Yeah!”—but most remained quiet and alert. She’d tried to throw away the dominant belief systems she’d grown up with, she explained. At the top of her list: Catholicism, patriarchy, and patriotism.

“But did I throw away too much from my parents’ generation?” she asked. “Did I throw the baby out with the bathwater? Was there something from that time that I didn’t appreciate? Something valuable I left behind?”

“No!” she screamed. “I didn’t disinherit enough!”

What have I inherited from my parents’ generation? My childhood looked very different from my mom’s... in a household with a quality of transience and openness that felt transgressive... Unlike my mom, I don’t want to throw my upbringing away. I want to sort through the remains and build on what feels solid in the face of a world I find troubled and precarious.

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commented on Schone neue Welt by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley: Schone neue Welt (Paperback, 2014, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, FISCHER Taschenbuch)

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today …

I don't really like this book. It feels like Translation State but maybe a little less juvenile and also just worse overall. I like the audiobook narrator though.