reading

In the last year or so I've been taking much more time, enjoyment and care over reading than I had for a long time.

It's probably this kind of reading that most informs the directions I write in, so it feels like it makes sense to share it.

I've been posting real-time reading updates to:

finger ghostglyph@happynetbox.com

I read on a bunch of different screens, and am actively seeking a open source e-reader solution; like The Open Book Project

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

I keep my library organised and convert, edit and build books within Calibre.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

2021

- Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy

- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow

- Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich

- Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah

- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff

- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany

- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña

- The Futurological Congress, Stanisław Lem

- The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

- The City & The City, China Miéville

- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany

- Staying With The Trouble, Donna J. Haraway (rr)

- Always Coming Home, Ursula K Le Guin

- A River Dies of Thirst, Mahmoud Darwish

- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

- Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology

- Neither Settler Nor Native, Mahmood Mamdani

- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (r/ThomasPynchon group read)

- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House, Audre Lorde

- The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde

- Consumed, David Cronenberg

- A People's Guide to Capitalism, Hadas Thier

- Red Pill, Hari Kunzru

- We Are Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins

- The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin

- Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany

- Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb

- Economic Science Fictions, ed. William Davies

- The Man with the Compound Eyes, Wu Ming-Yi

- Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

2020

- Blockchain Chicken Farm, Xiawei Wang

- Staying With The Trouble, Donna J. Haraway

- Jejuri, Arun Kolatka

- Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed

- Warlock, Oakley Hall

- Teaching Community, bell hooks

- The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde

- A People's History of the World, Chris Harman

- The Topeka School, Ben Lerner

- Antkind, Charlie Kaufman

- State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, ed. Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich

- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

- Satantango, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

- New Dark Age, James Bridle

- Underland, Robert Macfarlane