Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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32% complete! loppear has read 29 of 90 books.
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry …
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. …
Richard Rothstein's 2017 best-selling book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America outlined the …
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were …
Library sent me what appears to be an original 1943 printing.
This was nice, visually engaging, girl-led, empowering, power of truth and justice in collective struggle.
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of …
A perfect blend of deep historical translation, East vs West metaphysics and cosmology, mindfulness, poetry, and walks in the woods. Seeing mind as landscape, emptying our mind like "gazing into a flawless mirror of sky", in sincerity our inner thoughts are the same as our outer thoughts.
This debut novel by an Arab-American voice,takes us inside the lives of conservative Arab women …
This was a struggle, the setting and generational story of arranged marriages, domestic violence, and isolated women in strict conservative households is grounded, relevant, and sometimes well delivered. The author stand-in character really irked me in her attempts at advice, and I'm realizing it's regularly difficult for me to read average characters acting confused in the dark about well-foreshadowed violence.
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic …
Unnerving and fragmentary, very satisfying exploration around questions of memory, trust, and institutional decay.
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception …
Middle grade graphic novel.
Vivid and imaginative, crams so much in and not all of it fits but such fun. I originally read this as it was appearing wiki'd on e2, and many years later it reads much more like comic book superheroes than hard mysterious sci-fi, and that's perfectly enjoyable.
