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Women of the (real) World, Don’t ‘Lean In’, Unite!
Yes, this is a manifesto, not technically a ‘book’, but it was sent to me originally in PDF format by a good Irish comrade and I read it with my eyes as well as my ears because it made for an excellent follow-up to last years Hood Feminism and other call outs of mainstream liberal/neoliberal…
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And People are Afraid of CRT …
Finally got ’round to reading this ‘required’ text for those interested in confronting the imperialist colonizer chokehold that capitalism has on most of the world. Freire’s insistence that those most oppressed – those who enjoy pretty much none of the comforts that are used by the ownership class to mollify the mushy middle in most…
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If Only They Really Did Walk Among Us
NPR’s Jason Sheehan wrote in his review of this dense read: “What would you do if monsters were real? Cadwell Turnbull knows exactly what you’d do. Almost all of you. Almost all the time. You’d do nothing.“ So much happens in this book. Remember True Blood and/or the Sookie Stackhouse series in which vampires came…
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Grim(m) Enough
I just found out that the author has a tv series out there called Shadow & Bone that is set in the same universe as my favourite story in this collection of 6 tales that offer better lessons (as I see it) than the Grimms or Hans Christian some riff from. Three have a Russian-flavour…
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If It’s Not On a Screen, Is It Even Real?
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~Teddy Roosevelt Monsters are in the zeitgeist right now as we are maybe beginning to realize that the real monsters are the so-called friends we made along the way: tech, capitalism, on-demand everything, free shipping, etc. This was an Audible Daily Deal that paid off in a well-crafted story…
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Noms for the Dead
The one really big problem with listening to books as opposed to holding the pages in your hand comes when you need to refer to some sort of glossary or list in order to understand new words or concepts that are unique to the book. Luckily in the Age of Computers, one can usually find…
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… No One Knows You’re a Journalist
Picked up this book because I found the author on Leftist Twitter, being recommended by others. Ms. Lavin can be wicked witty and is well-worth a follow, though she does tweet a lot of personal stuff … personal stuff that isn’t very political at all. This book, however, is all about a certain cohort of…
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You Know You Wanna Read It
As I read more by African authors, set in Africa, I am made more and more aware of how class distinctions are such a part of everyday city life in places like Nigeria – as these cultures were hierarchal pre-Westernizarion, it seems somewhat inevitable that the people remain highly stratified, if not solely by birth…
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No More Caping
This was the year that I’ve found myself ready to give up on Good & Bad or Good & Evil as terribly unhelpful and often harmful concepts that allow too many humans to get away with too many things that add up to planetary destruction – this was something that could almost be overlooked when…
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2021 in Review
first up: Injustice This year I wanted to write a bit about the words I read/listened to, and I’d like to kick off with the first book I finished this year that made a big impact. From Radley Balko, the author of Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces and the…
Inhaling & Exhaling 