books
Currently reading: El Cid by Nora Berend 📚
A very entertaining and informative review of the life and afterlife of Ruy Díaz (El Cid).
Libro.fm - drm free eBooks supporting local bookshops
Since I’ve deleted my Amazon account entirely, I’ve been looking for a good source of audio books.
Just discovered Libro.fm - where you can buy audio books and support a local bookstore!
You can buy individual eBooks, and/or sign up for a monthly membership; each purchase supports a local bookshop you select.
Here’s a link to Libro.fm.
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Finished reading: In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch 📚
Languid, lyrical, intoxicating. In youth, pleasure.
#book #queer
Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Chapter / Day 13 - “Three Hours” - On finding focus in the chaos.
Basically, many of the most productive people in the world focused their attention and energy on a three hour (ish) period of the day …
Love this :)
Book of the Day - “The Future is History” (Masha Gessen, 2017)
Subtitled “How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”. A warning we need to heed.
#books #history #booksky #totalitarianism
Currently reading: The Future is History by Masha Gessen 📚
Prescient book from 2017 - a lot of the reviews at the time criticised Gessen for calling Putin’s regime “totalitarian”.
Finished reading: Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews 📚
Dark, queer, twisted.
Finished reading: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 📚
Darkly funny and sardonic. Listless tale of avoidance. Not sure about the end, but many memorable vignettes.
Finished reading: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚
Wonderful multi layered noir philosophic novel.
Long weekend reading collection. Connected and contrasting themes - history, philosophy, cross-cultural exchange, reflection, and ancient thought.
Finished reading: Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson 📚
Finished reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 📚
The first book on the “Culture” Series, now a classic science fiction setting. Explores the Culture largely from the view on an antagonist in the midst of a devastating galactic war. Covers vast and immense scope with finely crafted characters and intense interpersonal relationships and conflict.
Brilliant.
Finished reading: Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker 📚
Interesting mix of natural history, history and mythological investigation.
Finished reading: On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock 📚
Finished reading: Blackouts by Justin Torres 📚
Finished reading: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend 📚
Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚
Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚