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A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter …
Pleasant meditations on urban isolation, but Lahiri comes across as oddly conservative in some really off-putting ways (fat-shaming, heteronormativity, etc).
A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. …
I found this sort of pleasantly sad, but ultimately not very interesting. I'm left wondering why they gave Fosse the Nobel, but at least it's still less perplexing than many of their peace prize choices.
I'm so glad this opera, written during internment in a lesser known Nazi concentration camp, got a modern adaptation. The format suits it well and I loved the team's characterizations. Funny and haunting af.
Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually …
It's long and it gets repetitive, but it's also insightful, incisive, and snarky. It leans on some connections a bit harder than I think makes sense, buys into Marxist historiography in a stricter way than I'm sold on, but sheds a lot of great light on the connections between capital, technology, militarism, and colonialism.
I continue to love the characterizations, and meeting some more global city avatars. The overall Marvel team-up style story doesn't do a ton for me, but it was still a lot of fun.
Lovely little surreal, poetic short stories that talk to each other like crows in a tree.
Revised Edition
Genuinely good organizational advice wrapped in an obnoxious self-helpy presentation, all explicitly written to a target audience of cishet white male executives with assistants and maids and summer houses. Useful if you can grit your teeth and push through it, totally understandable if you can't.
There's so much in here. It bears another read, and I'm very curious how they managed the film adaptation.
Revised Edition
Let's see if I can get this book done
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the …
I appreciated Sarah's general outlook on management, and I'm sure there's plenty of good advice in the book, but it needed an editor. Or a different editor. Or a different writer and editor.
Too much of the first few chapters were like trying read a marketing blog or an HR email, not a book I wanted to study or curl up with. I gave up as soon as I got to to this sentence:
"A larger action item: try to change any processes or patch any misalignments that exist around the person that might alleviate the disconnects."
The layout is really nice, though.
I've been reading this in small bites in between other books since kickstarter fulfillment, whenever that was. I might even finish it someday.
Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major …
Great collection of genre stories, all with a strong transfeminist anarchist bent. Lots of horror, some dark fantasy, some cyberpunk, some just, I don't know... metal? A couple misses for me but I love her overall outlook and approach and all her protagonists feel like they could be real people in my friend circle without being too same-y, either.
