Currently reading: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 📚
Finished reading: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 📚Definitely worth reading. At first, I didn’t like this novel. So many unlikeable characters! But eventually I realized that it’s kind of the point. The protagonist and the 3-year-old make up for all the other unlikeable characters. I should confess that I stayed up most of the night finishing it, so there is that, too.
Currently reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Günter Grass 📚
Finished reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚 Totally worth reading. It’s a good companion to The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Why forests are worth saving, and why we should think of trees as more than a product. And also, love, loyalty, art, science, parents, and children.
Currently reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚
Finished reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander 📚 An 800 page slog. The one chapter about scientists and creative breakthroughs is quite interesting.
Currently reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum 📚
Finished reading: The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine 📚 I’m going to give this one an “ugh.” Unlikeable characters. Dumb story. The only lesson seems to be “don’t tell journalists something that you don’t want published widely” which, as a daughter of Washington, DC, I already knew.
Currently reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚
Currently reading: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum 📚
Currently Reading: The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine 📚
Finished reading: Harvest by Jim Crace 📚Dark and depressing, albeit well written. It’s a novel about the time in England when the economy switched from agrarian commons to capitalist exploitation.
Currently reading: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 📚
Finished reading: Ark by Veronica Roth 📚
Finished reading: Randomize by Andy Weir 📚
Finished reading: You Have Arrived At Your Destination by Amor Towles 📚
Finished reading: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 📚Definitely worth reading, but such a sad tale of white oppression of black people over generations.
Currently reading: Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander 📚
Finished reading: Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston 📚Totally fun and also a bit helpful to better understand The Mandalorian.
Currently reading: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 📚
Finished reading: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 📚Highly recommended. One of the things it shows is that our concept of diversity is so puny. Imagine a college campus with humans, humanoids, jelly fish beings, sentient trees, and more.
Finished reading: Ulysses by James Joyce 📚 Skipped 100 pages in the middle, the “play.” Yeah, imagining the internal monologue of a bunch of often drunk men has its allure but does get tiresome.