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I like both fiction and nonfiction. My interest in nonfiction includes political theory & occasionally research papers. If I finish a book quickly, I probably found a short audiobook somewhere. Links at Neocities: lakestheguy.neocities.org/

Pronouns: they/he (prefered), she/her (acceptable)

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No cover — adrienne maree brown, Sonya Renee Taylor: Journal of Radical Permission (2022, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated)

Jack London: To Build a Fire (Paperback, 1999, Tor Classics)

Ṣādiq Hidāyat: The blind owl (Paperback, 1989, Grove Weidenfeld)

Currently Reading

Arthur Beiser: Concepts of modern physics

Aric McBay: Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win

Gary Taubes: Bad science (1993, Random House)

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Angela Y. Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback, 2003, Seven Stories Press)

Terry Pratchett: Hogfather (1996, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

Simone Weil, Simon Leys, Czeslaw Milosz: On the Abolition of All Political Parties (2014, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The)

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Lakes rated Anarchism and Other Essays: 3 stars

Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback, 2005, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC)

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new …

Lakes finished reading Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new …

Lakes finished reading The Will to Change by bell hooks

bell hooks: The Will to Change (2004, Washington Square Press)

The Will to Change by bell hooks

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …

Lakes wants to read Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Molly Keane: Good Behaviour (Paperback, 2006, Virago Press)

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Lakes wants to read The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Tales from the Loop, #3)

Simon Stålenhag: The Electric State (Hardcover, 2018, Skybound Books)

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Tales from the Loop, #3)

In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …

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On 1/22/2018, we lost Ursula K. Le Guin. She was more than a storyteller—she was a radical thinker who used her craft to critique capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism, imagining alternative futures grounded in community, equality, and ecological harmony.

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IE Anarchist Bookfair 2025

Introducing the Inland Empire Anarchist Bookfair!

On June 7th 2025 anarchists and the anarchocurious in the region will converge on downtown San Bernardino (California, occupied Cahuilla, Luiseño, Tonga and Serrano land) for our first Anarchist Bookfair.

Save the date for a day of books, zines, panels, workshops, art and music.

Vendor and workshop applications will be available soon. For questions please email IE.anarchistbookfair@proton.me.

Lakes wants to read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (2000, Pantheon Books)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap …

Lakes wants to read Gerald's Game by Stephen King

Stephen King: Gerald's Game (Paperback, 1993, Signet)

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

When rough sex between Jessie and Gerald Burlingame turns deadly, leaving Gerald dead and Jessie handcuffed to the bed, it …

Lakes wants to read Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Ann Zhao: Dear Wendy (2024, Feiwel & Friends)

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an online feud while unknowingly …

Lakes wants to read Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women by Martha Ackelsberg

Martha Ackelsberg: Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women by Martha Ackelsberg

Lakes wants to read Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry: Last Picture Show (Paperback, Simon & Schuster)

Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Lakes wants to read The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …

Lakes wants to read The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson

William C. Anderson: The Nation on No Map (EBook, 2021, AK Press)

The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson

The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering …

Lakes wants to read Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth (Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare)

Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan: Why Civil Resistance Works (2011, Columbia University Press)

Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan (Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare)

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as …