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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A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability …
Inspiring and frank collection covering such a swath of disabilities and their lived experience and range of attitudes towards hope, exhaustion, justice, determination, bodily functions, love, anger. Essays of bluntly banal revelation as well as activism. Eye opening as promised in the title.
Mexico City in a recognizable now where travel to Mars is an unlikely dream of escape from routine gig economy poverty and class precarity.
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
Storyteller stories of intrigue and sweeping history, large and small. The strongest were in the middle, "Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Cities" and "Portrait of the Empress".
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid …
An odd venture on all fronts, characteristically documented but why... other than that I like dirigibles, and so did these guys.
Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a …
Incredibly gorgeous rapid-fire galloping galaxy adventure... filled with one gruesome trauma after another and working through their anger and helplessness and loss. Lots of room for the series to be very deep, but for now a dark wound.
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese …
A solid consistent collection of muted set pieces on losing or ceding control of your mind or your volition, with characters alternately bored or terrified at the prospect.
This is one of the finest books for children, both boys and girls. In 1928, …
A little imagination to travel to a steam and sail era lake country summer vacation, and further with a group of kids earnestly imagining themselves as explorers and pirates. Inspiring now as when I was the kid's ages, instructively detailing technicalities of sailing, camping, exploring, as well as life lessons about earning responsibility, negotiating with friend and foe, and dealing with fear and misjudgement.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
A solarpunk world that has learned to be content and self-limiting, an unsatisfied uncertain monk who offers an ear to people's worries and exhaustions, on a charming journey seeking purpose beyond needs. A wholesome meditation on a positive future.
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that …
A warmly thoughtful and engaged family pulled in all directions as society's definition of "neurotypical" shifts beneath them. Seems YA in many respects, extent of conflicts and constrained depths.
A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian …
Self-doubt of psychiatry and suicide, of fearing turning 40, of being judged... what?
Entertaining kids (12yo lead) puzzler, irreverently imaginative but not escapist, smart varied character personalities and relationships to mull about adult society and greed, without being so strongly good vs evil.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in …
Smartly followed premise, a life remembered woven into thoroughly challenging questions about love and morality. If you spend your life trying to spite death, you risk losing your humanity.
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George …
Two complementary points framing Black Lives Matter: 1) riot is a political act, even school kids rebelling should be seen as political actors, and 2) in America since 1968 black riots have largely and persistently been a political response to above-the-ordinary cases of police oppression. In clear relatable re-countings of riots mostly on the periphery, Hinton places today's steady beat of police killings, riots, and further militarized and ganged violence from police maintaining white power in an unaddressed lineage, making the same unheard demands for reform, investment, and fairness all these years.
A pioneer aviator's life in Africa.
From a letter to Maxwell Perkins: "Did you …
An adventurous life - on the Kenyan plains, training racehorses, flying thousands of civilian often solo hours - but best for how reverently she gives voice to other's lives and deaths around her.