No Shortcuts
last updated: 2023-09-30 21:09:20.696707
a good book for any modern organizing - olga
She who became the sun
last updated: 2023-07-21 03:49:57.117928
jess recomends!
About Me
last updated: 2023-05-19 20:03:20.431848
looking for recommendations for books on Southern Californian or PNW geology if you have any Some places to find me: - joshvredevoogd.com - twitter.com/jawshv - github.com/jawshv
Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
last updated: 2023-05-08 19:06:39.316690
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
last updated: 2023-05-05 16:00:59.989169
The Ninth Series
last updated: 2023-05-02 04:03:59.032297
Space Witches! Jon recommends
Kitchen Confidential
last updated: 2023-04-26 22:25:51.388670
by Anthony Bourdain audiobook
The Alphabet Abecedarium
last updated: 2023-04-21 09:02:09.175711
The Angry Earth Series
last updated: 2023-03-11 04:30:58.895135
The Devotion of Suspect X
last updated: 2023-03-08 05:41:42.302169
lise’s favorite mystery novel
The Body Artist
last updated: 2023-03-08 00:04:21.463353
By Don DeLillo
the four winds
last updated: 2023-03-07 17:24:27.258421
Once there were wolves
last updated: 2022-12-25 18:08:01.490701
day of the locust
last updated: 2022-11-14 03:33:44.396012
Carnality
last updated: 2022-09-15 04:07:27.343028
Jess recommend need to read
citizen
last updated: 2022-08-16 22:45:55.862468
mai’s favorite book. poetry and prose about the black experience in america. author: claudia rankine
the bluest eye
last updated: 2022-07-30 06:32:05.249756
by tony morrison
The Color of Law
last updated: 2022-04-06 16:49:50.662536
la ttitudes
last updated: 2022-03-04 19:15:49.814517
The Reluctant Metropolis
last updated: 2022-01-24 00:58:06.018857
telling the story of LA County's growth - someone on twitter recommended "the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster."
The Debt to Pleasure
last updated: 2023-09-16 23:18:18.913163
Lonesome Dove
last updated: 2023-07-24 11:00:37.460742
Selected Cronicas
last updated: 2023-02-03 19:26:45.135602
by Clarice Lispector
Collapse
finished: 2023-09-03 00:00:00
by jared diamond first half was an interesting telling of historical societal collapses (maya, nordic colonists, easter island, etc.) which is why i picked up the book- second half was comparing it to contemporary places like montana and australia which felt a bit out of date and honestly just dragged. veered a little too close to ecofascism at the end (our problems all come back to population ://) also why was there a chapter apologizing
Cryptonomicon
finished: 2022-11-08 00:00:00
really loved some of this but other parts def felt their age. “the internet … I hear that’s exciting now” the morality of how to use broken enigma codes, U-boat adventures, maths, learning about what email was like in the 90s, komodo dragons ~ all fun stuff! Also lots of jokes! but then you'll just stumble into a chapter with huge neck beard energy or a random black-face scene and just like ???? yikes ? this book was so so long please just cut the bad stuff also big sad for Neal to write a book constantly referencing 'crypto' in 1999 (cryptography) and me trying to read it in 2022 lol
This is How You Lose the Time War
finished: 2023-05-30 07:00:00
The Secret History
finished: 2023-07-20 18:17:51.669691
The Insufferable Guacho
finished: 2023-05-26 14:51:13.149172
By Robert Bolano
City of Quartz
finished: 2022-07-01 07:00:00
By Mike Davis One of the most important books written about LA
the dispossessed
finished: 2023-05-13 07:00:00
by Ursula K Le Guin. about a guy who exiles himself from his anarcho-communist moon to preach revolution on a planet with a capitalist system of government. some of it hit, some of it felt outdated/reductive (written in the 1970s) - would have loved to spend more time on Anarres - a compelling harsh environment with a workers society constantly doubting and reaffirming it's way of life.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
finished: 2022-04-12 07:00:00
3 books by Ursa K Le Guin each book about the intersection of humans across technology gaps. Dealing with colonialism and tribalism. Storytelling is solid but imo Le Guin really shines as a world builder creating complex and specific societies across different human species Rocannon’s world Planet of Exile City of Illusions
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
finished: 2023-01-12 00:00:00
by Clarice Lispector beautiful prose, Lispector is such a joy to read. every sentence floats and feels so specifically human. story about a young teacher in brazil existing and longing and falling in love, wish it was more of her wanderings and thoughts and much less of the annoying man who she fancies
All About Love
finished: 2022-01-24 08:00:00
Cadillac Desert
finished: 2022-11-02 03:25:47.866414
by Marc Reisner maybe the best book i’ve read this year despite some sections that dragged - just absolutely essential reading on the water crisis in the western US. come for the story of how LA stole water from central california stay for the unending subsidization of farmers emptying aquifers to grow crops in the desert
The Crying of Lot 49
finished: 2022-04-03 00:00:00
by Thomas Pynchon Short but incredibly dense, paranoid, funny? SoCal a la developer monopolies, secret societies, defense industry conglomerates, greasy motels, and semi-faux european history. A quick fever dream of a book, recommend
Ecology of Fear
finished: 2023-03-05 00:48:03.390976
By Mike Davis
The Remains of the Day
finished: 2022-08-25 19:29:10.786037
Kazuo Ishiguro this book was a short and simple story about an english butler going for a 3 day road trip but managed to be entirely devastating. recommend
the Map that Changed the World
finished: 2022-04-12 23:41:47.579778
by Simon Winchester honestly thought this would be more boring than it was? non fiction about this mess of a man who created the worlds first geological map when he realized strata layers matched in multiple coal mines despite them being miles from eachother. many interesting little english anecdotes like the canal bubble, fossil facts, debtor prisons, all in the backdrop of the napoleonic wars
Smogtown
finished: 2022-04-03 22:50:47.500243
history of air pollution in LA and how policy, people, scientists responded to it. I guess grateful our reoccurring 150 aqi doesn't smell like sulfur? also interesting how early there was scientific consensus the root cause was cars (1950s) and all he way in 2022 it's still true!