An American residing in Chicago with two degrees in comparative religions. Lived in India for five years. Currently working in higher education. Always have four to five books in rotation and always up for new recommendations!
Some Favorite Genres: #fantasy #scifi #history #speculativefiction #politics #anthropology #religion #mysteries #philosophy #theology #ecology #environment #travel #solarpunk
Some Favorite Authors: Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, E.M. Forster, Ursula K. LeGuin, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham
Currently Cleaning Up my To Read Collection
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A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …
Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan - Tenar an isolated young priestess, Sparowhawk a …
Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of …
Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged …
The final book in the Earthsea Cycle.
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at …
A work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first …
Sound really great! I've been listening to the "History of Japan Podcast" for the past three years and I love finding new things to explore in Japanese history.
This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth …
Used to teach from Pedagogy of the Oppressed in a class. Freire always blew the mind of first-year students. Added this to my to read list!
In this vital and incisive work, best-selling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in …
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. Published in 2004, it is an …
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's …
The Road to Oxiana is the brilliant account of Robert Byron’s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933–34. This …
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman …
I read "A Mind Spread Out on the Ground" and it was amazing. Will keep an eye out of this one.
Kitap, 2002 yılında ilk olarak İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlanmıştır. Kitabın yayıncılığını 2013 yılından itibariyle YKY (Yapı Kredi Yayınları) üstlenmiştir.
Kitap …
A man returning home finds himself instead on a decades-long journey through the nature of identity, philosophy and story telling.
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, …
This looks really great. Looking forward to picking it up sometime soon.