For you reading people here is a new thread.
For you reading people here is a new thread.
So I'm currently reading Zone One by Colson Whitehead, and I just have to share something. It's a post-zombie apocalypse novel, and our main character is a sweeper, part of a team that goes into buildings in NYC searching for straggler zombies and destroying them. It's a quasi-military group, and there is a quasi-government in place. The team just got word that every time they encounter and destroy zombies, they need to complete an incident report with location and demographical data on the zombies. As a former corporate drone, I'm thinking OMFG, that would absolutely happen! I know the budding bureaucracy would insist on incident reports rather than have the teams actually kill more zombies! It's enough to make you root for the zombies, sigh.
ha ha, well, zombies are people too! Or, they were people so they deserve some accounting,
There will also be a small but vocal minority who thinks the zombies should be pampered and coddled and cared for, because if only enough public resources can be spent on them, they will become productive members of society.
So far this year:
- "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma", Claire Dederer
- "Who's Afraid of Gender?", Judith Butler
- "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI", Yuval Noah Harari
- "Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners", Joshua Bowen & Megan Lewis
thank you for wading through the Judith Butler book. Tell us what your takeaways are. I’m not sure if that’s her first book about gender or the second one. Someone I respect claims her second gender book refutes at least one major premise of the first book.
Early on she separated sex and gender, and I’m not sure that’s currently her stance.
Judith Butler is the mother of queer theory.
Up next:
- "Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History", Jay Rubenstein
- "Playground", Richard Powers
- "Notes on Complexity: A scientific theory of connections, consciousness, and being", Neil Theise
- "The Random Factor: How Chance and :Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us", Mark Rank
- "The Age of Insecurity. Coming together as things fall apart", Astra Taylor
- "The Burning Earth: A History", Sunil Amrith
I like to get new cookbooks from the library. After waiting months, I finally brought home the Rancho Gordo Bean Book which I am enjoying.
Currently reading "Damn! A Book of Calumny", by HL Mencken and rereading George Will's " The Conservative Sensibility". Next on deck are a couple of old Red Stout mysteries.
I'm reading Night Bitch. Unlike any book I've read. Strong images that disturb. The movie should be interesting...wonder how many graphic scenes (non-sexual) they will include...
peaceful, easy feeling
Waiting for a summary opinion on the Judith Butler book from BAE…
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