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Finished reading: Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler 📚

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Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

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Finished reading: Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski 📚⚾️

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Finished reading: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff 📚

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Finished reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚

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Finished reading: Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 📚

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Finished reading: Joe by Larry Brown 📚

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Finished reading: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

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Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚

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Finished reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg 📚

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Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

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Finished reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

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Finished reading: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef 📚

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Had a tough time with this one considering the author provides the following consecutive examples of this mindset in practice: Elon Musk, Trevor Bauer, and Jeff Bezos. The Scout Mindset, at least in some cases, seems to be a secret code for how to be ultra successful in spite of (or maybe because of?) utter moral bankruptcy.

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Finished reading: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

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And just like that I’m sucked back into Area X and planning another re-read of the series, now with additional fascinating backstory.

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Finished reading: Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright 📚

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Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚

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Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚

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Excited about this collaboration between Keanu Reeves and–of all people–China Miéville as covered in Wired. The books sounds great (though I refrained from reading anything past the spoiler warning), but I was most interested in the little glimpses into Miéville’s life and process.

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Some highlights include this startlingly insightful theory about what defines “nerd culture.”

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And, though 51, he still plays with toys. At one point I awkwardly gestured at this, and he told me, “I have a theory. One of the things that tends to distinguish nerds and their interests is, broadly speaking, that they have fidelity to their loves in a way that other people don’t. I don’t mean other people are unfaithful in a flibbertigibbety way, but! The stuff I was into when I was 4 is still the stuff I’m into. From as early as I can remember, it was sea monsters. Aliens …”

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Further, I think Miéville perfectly summed up my own personal tastes in fiction over the last few years. What he’s interested in writing about is a direct analog to what I’ve found myself interested in reading (which includes Miéville1 but also, in my opinion, other contemporary authors like Jeff VanderMeer and Ray Nayler).

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He doesn’t write science fiction because he’s a communist or because he wants to bring about the revolution. Instead, he thinks of himself as pursuing “difference” within and across his books: “Alterity. That’s where my heart beats.”

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This “alterity” is something that, since reading this article, I realized I’ve been seeking and finding in my favorite literature going back years. When I think of my favorite novels from McCarthy, DeLillo, and Faulkner, this “alterity” and the ways that affects the characters and plot is at the forefront of what I most enjoyed.

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    While I’ve read only This Census Taker, I loved it so much that I feel no hesitation about placing Miéville among my favorite living authors. Perdido Street Station arrived today and I am excited to start it soon. ↩︎

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Finished reading: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 📚

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Finished reading: Bunny by Mona Awad 📚

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Loved this book. Not at all surprised to learn that it’s been optioned for a film by Bad Robot. Super dark and creative and fun with a voice that really leapt out as being ready-made for film or TV. Lots of interesting things to say about friendship and loneliness and college towns and desire and creativity and jealousy and on and on.

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Finished reading: Something in the Water by Luke O’Neil 📚

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Finished reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

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I can’t believe all these animals we have are real and we just take it for granted I said before drinking half of my glass. Growing up our parents tell us there’s no such thing as monsters so we’ll go to sleep but a bear is a monster and a moose is a monster and a bird is a monster too. Every bird in the world would rip your head off if it were somewhat larger and you were somewhat slower.

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Imagine if whales didn’t exist and then one showed up out of nowhere? We’d never stop talking about it Joe said. We would never get over it.

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It’s probably no coincidence that the most famous novel ever written was about how fucked up a guy got after knowing about one particularly angry whale.

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It’s just that we get used to the things that are scary Joe said. The real action is in novelty.”

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― Luke O’Neil, “Kingston Street” from A Creature Wanting Form

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Loved the scope of this and its overall kind of aura. But, man, the back third really dragged ass. Satisfying conclusion and it’s the kind of book that has forever changed my brain in good ways. Really wish I could read The Secret Forest — but maybe The Hidden Life of Trees will suffice.

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It could be the eternal project of mankind, to learn what forests have figured out.

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Finished reading: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler 📚

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And maybe something in every single person is broken, and we just keep moving forward as if it were all normal—all of it—like insects with their heads torn off who keep crawling toward a shadow to hide in. Until that thing that has already destroyed us catches up with us, and we stop moving.

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Here are the books I finished reading this year.

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This was a very good book year for me. Probably the best in a decade or so in terms of both quantity and quality. Here are a few themes and highlights.

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Looking forward to reading even more in 2024. Bring on the weird.

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Finished reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 📚

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Finished reading: Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff 📚

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Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚

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One of those books that I just want to climb inside of and live in (despite how unpleasant that would be in the kinds of books that I tend to feel this way about).

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Humanity is still afraid the minds we make to do our dirty work for us—our killing, our tearing of minerals from the earth, our raking of the seas for more protein, our smelting of more metal, the collection of our trash, and the fighting of our wars—will rise up against us and take over. That is, humanity calls it fear. But it isn’t fear. It’s guilt (p 266).

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Finished reading: Blockade Billy by Stephen King 📚

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Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

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Finished reading: Heat 2 by Michael Mann 📚

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Finished reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚

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Huge thanks to @zioibi for choosing this for the sipped ink summer reading club. I’d had it on the list for a while and this proves to be excellent motivation. It was my first time participating in what I understanding is a long-running annual affair and I am already looking forward to next summer. Loved this book. So much hit so close to home (both figuratively and geographically) and it felt authentic in a way that I didn’t quite expect. I don’t know why, but I had not categorized Kingsolver as an “Appalachian” writer previously, despite knowing of her bonafides in terms of being from Kentucky, but this book is clearly written with a love and intimate knowledge for the region and its people. There’s more going on here, too. The social justice angle. The David Copperfield retelling. The language itself. All of it just got me thinking in all of the best ways, even if those ways are also painful.

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For anyone who also loved this book who finds themselves interested in learning more about Appalachia or reading more Appalachian literature, Kingsolver put together a really nice reading list for The New York Times1.

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    A couple fun, personal notes: Dr. Theresa Lloyd, one of the authors mentioned in Kingsolver’s reading list, was one of my professors years ago and probably did more than anyone else to turn me onto Appalachian Literature as a subject. While studying under Dr. Lloyd, I wrote a paper about the stories of Breece Pancake which remains my one and only academic publication. Thanks for everything, Dr. Lloyd, and congratulations on the big mention in The New York Times! ↩︎

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Finished reading: Mooncalves: Strange Stories by John WM Thompson (editor) 📚

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Finished reading: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 📚. Truly loved this book.

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📚 Loved “The Stars Have Eaten the Costco Parking Lot” by Chelsea Sutton in the Mooncalves collection.

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Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 📚

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This one felt like it took me about ten years to finish. Pretty good climax and some interesting science to it all, but it was definitely a slog. Was far more interested in one of the storylines (Laks) than the others and those chapters tended to be far shorter throughout most of the book. Also was a bit turned off but what I can only refer to as “dirty old man” humor…

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Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

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Really enjoyed this. Could see a TV series or a series of short stories or more novellas set in this world. First I’ve read through a full novel by Emily St. John Mandel (though I started and abandoned Station Eleven, and then watched and throughly enjoyed that HBO series). Was completely hooked and intrigued with the first half and must admit that the back half was not what I expected and left me wanting a bit… but was intriguing and kept me turning pages nonetheless.

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Finished reading: Lark Ascending by Silas House 📚

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Finished reading: This Census-taker by China Miéville 📚

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Read this for Defector Reads A Book’s February discussion. First book of fiction that I’ve read in physical form (not audio book) in a long, long time so it feels like something of an accomplishment. I absolutely loved this book. First I’ve read by Miéville and now I can’t wait to dig deeper into his catalog.

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Finished reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

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Finished reading: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari 📚

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Finished reading: The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚

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Finished reading: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚

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Turned onto this by a Vox article the other day and it did not disappoint. Looking forward to more in the series.

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Finished reading: Dead Astronauts: A Novel (Borne) by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

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Finished reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚

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Felt like a little bit of a slog through some of the (long) middle section, but the end was poignant, fitting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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📚: The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik

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📚: Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips

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If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that exists for you alone. You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country.

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From “In the Dark: Science Fiction in Small Towns"

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If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that exists for you alone. You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country.

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From “In the Dark: Science Fiction in Small Towns" in the wonderful Impossible Owls collection by Brian Phillips.

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📚: Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

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📚: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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Sparked by the Westworld tie-in. Curious to see how it ties together.

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📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.

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📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.

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