Inspired to read this by the latest episode of Radicals In Conversation: plutopress.podbean.com/e/beyond-the-ballot-box-on-the-far-right-with-mike-wendling/
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pdotb started reading Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
Day of Reckoning by Mike Wendling
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our world out of shape' Gabriel …
pdotb finished reading Untangling Self by Andrew Olendzki
pdotb started reading Untangling Self by Andrew Olendzki
pdotb finished reading Nothing Special by Charlotte J. Beck
pdotb started reading A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Edith Pargeter, Ellis Peters
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition from the relics’ keepers. Then …
pdotb finished reading Transcendent 4 by Bogi Takács
pdotb reviewed Transcendent 4 by Bogi Takács
Transcendent 4
4 stars
TBH I've come to question the sense of rating an anthology. After all, if I loved every story, wouldn't that simply mean a perfect overlap between my taste and that of the editor? I read this because it contains a story by Andrew Joseph White, and that certainly didn't disappoint. Although a number of other stories didn't really do anything for me, I have discovered a number of new writers I'd like to read more by (Jose Pablo Iriarte, Tori Curtis, Kathryn DeFazio, and Kylie Ariel Bemis), plus the introduction listed a number of interesting other venues for stories.
pdotb finished reading Flowers in the Dark by Sister Dang Nghiem
pdotb finished reading The Red Flag: A History of Communism by David Priestland
Comprehensive and surprisingly even-handed
4 stars
Provides a remarkably readable history of communism, tracing its origins in the French Revolution and continuing to almost the present day. Very detailed consideration of the internal workings of pretty much any country with a significant communist presence in the last 150 years, only slightly marred by a lack of context -- but then maybe the book would have been even more of a monster than it already was.
