I read 279 books in 2023. (“Books” is defined inclusively here, to include graphic novels, coffee table books, poetry collections, separately-published novellas, and children’s picture books.) An asterisk indicates a rereading. I don’t really do top tens and so forth, but the following is a short list of writers I read this year that youContinue reading “2023 Reading”
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Memory Lane (Digital Edition)
On Friday I remembered, as I do from time to time, that several years back I bought e-book editions of Diane Duane’s Young Wizards books direct from her website. Because they weren’t bought through Amazon and the “Send to Kindle” feature didn’t exist at that time, I sideloaded them onto my Kindle, which meant theyContinue reading “Memory Lane (Digital Edition)”
Myths Transformed
What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. Over the past 24 hours I’ve read Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and Karthika Nair’s Until the Lions. Both are short, sharp reworkings of ancient literature that grapple with the violence of war and the subjugation of women. Both are also on sale in theContinue reading “Myths Transformed”
Reading list, 2021
I read 91 books in 2021. An asterisk means I was rereading something. January 1. Garth Greenwell, Cleanness 2. Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare 3. James Swallow, Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil 4. Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other 5. Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness 6. John Gaskin,Continue reading “Reading list, 2021”
Late Democracy 