User Profile

skolima

skolima@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 8 months ago

voracious reader 📚 hiking 🏔️ cycling 🚵🏻‍♂️ software engineer 👨🏻‍💻

@skolima@hachyderm.io

This link opens in a pop-up window

2025 Reading Goal

58% complete! skolima has read 14 of 24 books.

Timothy Snyder: On Freedom (2024, Crown Publishing Group, The)

It's not a history book - it's an ethical trety

This isn't a history book - I've been familiar with prof. Snyder's other work and was expecting one, I guess.

It is an ethical treaty. A lament on the now unstoppable fall of the US imperial age. A look into how other empires fell and how countries can be - are - rebuilt afterwards, how actions and decisions shape the land and the people.

It is a book I needed to read, but which made me unbelievably sad every time I got to it.

Cory Doctorow: Radicalized (2019, Tor Books)

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of …

Prescient

Prescient. Hard to put it another way. Published in 2019, and not extrapolating that far, Radicalized hits hard. Even though the novellas each end somewhat optimistically, it is hard to not be moved by them. And they're really, really uncomfortably close to reality. Glimpses of the fall of the american empire.