Reading this (a classic) feels a little like watching a classic film. I know the main arguments already since they're now often treated as givens in most of what I read, and therefore how I understand the world. The original text however, provides a lot of evidence I lacked previously and a historical sampling that deepend my knowledge considerably.
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imagineutopia wants to read Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana
Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana, Megan Backus
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and “Kitchen,” the dazzling English-language …
imagineutopia finished reading Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …
Reading this (a classic) feels a little like watching a classic film. I know the main arguments already since they're now often treated as givens in most of what I read, and therefore how I understand the world. The original text however, provides a lot of evidence I lacked previously and a historical sampling that deepend my knowledge considerably.
imagineutopia started reading Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
imagineutopia finished reading Greek Lessons by Kang Han
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the …
So stunning !!! Brilliant untangling of language, memory, and sight.
imagineutopia started reading Greek Lessons by Kang Han
Greek Lessons by Kang Han
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak …
imagineutopia started reading Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …
imagineutopia wants to read Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia is a 2014 book by Peter …
imagineutopia started reading Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
What happens when we imagine loving the people—and the parts of ourselves—that we do not believe are worthy of love?
…imagineutopia wants to read White Women by Regina Jackson
White Women by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the …
imagineutopia wants to read All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry
When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the …
imagineutopia wants to read Part of Our Lives by Wayne A. Wiegand
Part of Our Lives by Wayne A. Wiegand
Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their …
imagineutopia rated Sapling Cage: 4 stars
Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of …