I've started 5 or so books recently but haven't finished anything since my re-read of Lovecraft Country. Watching more tv than
- Sula - How to Be an Anti-Racist - The Selected Works of Audre Lorde - How Long 'til Black Future Month? - can't remember lol
Have a TON of books on my reading list and I force myself to stop buying periodically b/c I have so many un-read. By the end of the year I want to get August Wilson's Century Cycle. I hate buying from Amazon but they have it at the cheapest cost by far.
5. "RE: What Are Yall Reading?" In response to Reply # 0
The Machine: The Field Guide to the Resurgent Right - Lee Fang Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump - Dave Neiwert Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream - Sarah Churchwell
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A lot of you players ain't okay.
We would have been better off with an okaycivics board instead of an okayactivist board
10. "Hawaii - James Michener " In response to Reply # 0
Ive wanted to read it for a while. Really into it so far. Very interesting. We'll see if I can finish it at 1200 something pages. I almost never finish books.
12. "ooh that Headhunter's sounds right up my alley" In response to Reply # 11
I love Herbie Hancock. Last year I listened to about 80% of his discography, from the very first album. Read his autobiography a couple times as well. And DOPE in concert when I saw him in 2017. Like still doing jumps with the keytar dope.
18. "Blacktop Wasteland was cinematic." In response to Reply # 0
Most fun I've had with a book in a long time. (reading 100+ books a year)
S.A. Crosby wrote it. Basically a guy who's great at driving cars for bad things has settled down for family but decides to do one more bad thing but things go astray. An old story but done so well here.
20. "RE: What Are Yall Reading?" In response to Reply # 0
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black America in the 21st Century by Sandy Darity (HIGHLY recommended. Should actually be required reading for Black American/ADOS young adults, IMO)
Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of The Radical Rights Stealth Plan For America by Nancy MacLean (so far so good)
A bunch of essays and interviews by Sylvia Wynter (Brilliant shit)
Prince and the Purple Rain Studio Session by Duane Tudahl (...It's cool)
22. "It's really great." In response to Reply # 21
He does a phenomenal job of outlining the history of reparations movements in America, and how they're really all kind of connected, in very real ways. I'm about halfway through it, and I'm impressed by his research, and how easy it is to read. Economists can get lost in jargon, and he keeps this dead simple.
23. "Prooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouust" In response to Reply # 0
Love Sula.
My lane for on-my-own-time reading is going through the most pretentious parts of the western canon so I can appear smart to my friends and family, so not having read any Proust was a real oversight on my part. Feel justified in waiting, though because it's very difficult. Feels like he's digging the tunnels for stream of consciousness writing and Joyce actually mined all the gems - which isn't a knock on our boy Proust, but so far the greater source of enjoyment for me is working through a difficult book than, you know, the actual book.
Also, annotating Petr Celcicky's "On the Spiritual Battle" for a paper that I'm never going to finish writing on Christian anarchism. I'll be moving that forward one milimeter at a time until I'm dead, but it's kind of nice to feel like researching and writing again even if nothing ever comes of it.
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25. "I read the whole of À la recherche..." In response to Reply # 23
The first 3/4 volumes are some of the best literature I've read. I tried to read it a few years before that but couldn't get into it but the second time worked.
26. "Been awhile since I've had to work for it" In response to Reply # 25
Sounds like it's worth it, though. I appreciate the candor-as-encouragement. Thanks!
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27. "The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos" In response to Reply # 0
>I've started 5 or so books recently but haven't finished >anything since my re-read of Lovecraft Country. Watching more >tv than > >- Sula >- How to Be an Anti-Racist >- The Selected Works of Audre Lorde >- How Long 'til Black Future Month? >- can't remember lol > >Have a TON of books on my reading list and I force myself to >stop buying periodically b/c I have so many un-read. By the >end of the year I want to get August Wilson's Century Cycle. I >hate buying from Amazon but they have it at the cheapest cost >by far. > > >so....what yall reading?
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