Book List - Blog Posts
📖 reading week (27/11 - 03/12)
currently reading
o mito de sísifo - camus (75%)
infocracia - byung-chul han (pg. 62/107)
lolita - nabokov (pg. 25/ 331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
the way of kings - brandon sanderson (428/1252)
kibogo- scholastique mukasonga (starting)
to be read
a peste - camus
sea of tranquility - emily st john mandel
read (20/11-26/11)
chouette - claire oshtsky
the right to sex - amia srinivasan
tell me i'm an artist - chelsea martin
Coeur tambour, Scholastique Mukasonga
The cover image of this book is beautiful. This luminous woman holds a bowl, bearing the colors of the moon that gives its beauty to the early morning sun, thus revealing the splendor of sacred objects. When the drum beats, the story of Africa beats. It is first the story of Queen Kitami then that of Prisca, a little girl from a village in Rwanda, whose myth resonates in the Caribbean and America. This book seems magical to me, and I’m just looking forward to reading it, it fits perfectly into my research themes.
i don't think there's anything more human than annotating a book. you have a physical copy of thousands upon thousands of words- words that are meaningless, unless put together in the perfect way- and within those meaningless words, you find the meaning. you find what you're meant to find, and you make note of it. you make note of it so, when you come back, you're filled with that emotion. that lovely feeling, that heartbreak, that pain and sadness and anger and laughter and suddenly it isn't just a physical copy of thousands upon thousands of words. it's more like home.
and don't get me started on how it feels to see other people's annotations. seeing the thoughts and feelings of other people, splayed right there on the page; it's a window, isn't it? it's a way to see what they're processing. what sticks out to them, what makes them feel, what makes them tick. is there anything more human than that, seeing a person's heart and soul with your own eyes, among a physical copy of thousands upon thousands of words? they take in these words and, in return, give the physical copy something of themselves. and i think that's absolutely breathtaking.
Thanks @intoxicatednits for the tag!
Mine is INFP- the idealist's booklist.
So lovies many of you are into books (these are classics) and here is list according to MBTI.
And I'm in love with these
OH GOSH!!! Looking forward to know about yours buddies!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Isaacs reading list in Heartstopper
Season 1
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Naruto vol. 72 - Masashi Kishimoto
Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
Proud - Gareth Thomas
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
Gender Explorers - Juno Roche
There is no Planet B - Mike Berners-Lee
Season 2
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Booklovers - Emily Henry
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We Are Okay - Nina Lacour
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Birthday - Meredith Russo
Crush - Richard Siken
Boy Erased - Garrard Conley
The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib
Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman
Ace - Angela Chen
comfy culty cozy library haul for fall:
THROUGH THE NIGHT LIKE A SNAKE (LATIN AMERICAN HORROR STORIES) by VARIOUS AUTHORS
A FEW RULES FOR PREDICTING THE FUTURE (ESSAY) by OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS by OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
THE GATHERING DARK (FOLK HORROR ANTHOLOGY) edited by TORI BOVALINO
THE SALT GROWS HEAVY by CASSANDRA KHAW
BLACK OBSERVATORY (POEMS) by CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY
PARABLE OF THE SOWER (GRAPHIC NOVEL) by OCTAVIA E. BUTLER*
*read Parable of the Sower earlier this year, ★ ★ ★ ★ ★!! The story is even more poignant, now that her predictions have come true. Rereading this in graphic novel form before I move on to the sequel, Parable of the Talents!
2023 READS (BOOKLIST)
What an incredible year is has been with my adventures in literature. I went from not reading a complete book in years to reading 30+ whole books in less than a year. Pictured above are THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER by ANDY DAVIDSON (★ ★ ★ ★ ★) and MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by RASHEED NEWSON (★ ★ ★ ★ ★), two amazing books I read this year, but didn't get a chance to review. In descending order, here are all the books I read in 2023:
TRUE EVIL TRILOGY by R. L. STINE (1992) ★ ★ ★
JAZZ by TONI MORRISON (1992) ★ ★ ★ ★
SONG OF SOLOMON by TONI MORRISON (1977) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
SIDLE CREEK by JOLENE McILWAIN (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★
MUCKROSS ABBEY AND OTHER STORIES by SABINA MURRAY (2023) ★ ★ ★
TEXAS HEAT: AND OTHER STORIES by WILLIAM HARRISON (2023) ★ ★ ★
BOYS IN THE VALLEY by PHILIP FRACASSI (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
PIRANESI by SUSANNA CLARKE (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
BARACOON: THE STORY OF THE LAST BLACK CARGO by ZORA NEALE HURSTON (2018) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
NINETEEN CLAWS AND A BLACKBIRD by AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA (2020) ★ ★
THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY by BRANDON SLOCUMB (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★
MONSTRILIO by GERARDO SAMANO CORDOVA (2023) ★ ★ ★
THE SHARDS by BRET EASTON ELLIS (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★
HUMAN SACRIFICES by MARIA FERNANDA AMPUERO (2021) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
DEVIL HOUSE by JOHN DARNIELLE (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★
FLUX by JINWOO CHONG (2023) ★ ★ ★
THE TROOP by NICK CUTTER (2014) ★ ★ ★
MY DARKEST PRAYER by S. A. COSBY (2019) ★ ★ ★ ★
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON (1962) ★ ★ ★ ★
BELOVED by TONI MORRISON (1987) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by SHIRLEY JACKSON (1959) ★ ★ ★
THE VANISHING HALF by BRIT BENNETT (2020) ★ ★ ★ ★
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by OLGA TOKARZUK (2009) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
THE BURNING GIRLS by C. J. TUDOR (2021) ★ ★ ★
HIDDEN PICTURES by JASON REKULAK (2022) ★ ★ ★
THE BOOKS OF JACOB by OLGA TOKARZUK (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER by ANDY DAVIDSON (2020) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
SACRIFICIO by ERNESTO MESTRE-REED (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
SUPERSTITIOUS by R. L. STINE (1995) ★ ★ ★
THE WRONG GIRL by R. L. STINE (2018) ★ ★ ★
MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by RASHEED NEWSON (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
BEST BARBARIAN: POEMS by ROGER REEVES (2022) ★ ★ ★
THE THORN PULLER by ITO HIROMI (2007) ★ ★ ★ ★
NOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE by DANA LEVIN (2022) ★ ★ ★
THE HOLLOW KIND by ANDY DAVIDSON (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. KINGFISHER (2022) ★ ★
A DELUSION OF SATAN: THE FULL STORY OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS by FRANCES HILL (1995) ★ ★ ★ ★
Bonsoir! Can you suggest some books on ecofeminism, that you've read or have on your to-read list?
I would suggest:
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, Vandana Shiva
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, Andrea Barnet
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the “Green Economy”, ed. Wendy Harcourt & Ingrid Nelson
Françoise d’Eaubonne et l’écoféminisme, Caroline Goldblum (I believe Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term “ecofeminism” in her essay Le féminisme ou la mort—one chapter of Carolyn Merchant’s Ecology provides a translation of some of d’Eaubonne’s thoughts)
Small Town, Big Oil: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World—And Won, David W. Moore
Ecofeminism, Maria Mies
Women and the Environment: Crisis and Development in the Third World, ed. Sally Sontheimer
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth, Marilyn Waring (the chapter on war and the high economic value men have ascribed to death is particularly good)
Earth follies : coming to feminist terms with the global environmental crisis, Joni Seager
Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World, Trina Moyles
(The bolded links redirect to OpenLibrary for the books that are available there)
On my to-read list:
Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology, Ariel Salleh
Unbowed, Wangari Maathai (I reblogged this article about her the other day, which made me want to check out the memoir she wrote)
Feminism and Ecology, Mary Mellor
Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care, Sherilyn McGregor (I’m interested in her critical discussion of how women caring about the environment is often described in maternal, rather than political, terms)
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen & Maria Mies
I would also recommend Naomi Klein’s books; although she writes about political ecology rather than ecofeminism, at least she doesn’t forget about women in her books the way male environmentalists often do. Some of the male-authored books on the environment that gave me food for thought lately include Arran Stibbe’s Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, Paul Kingsnorth’s Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, David Owen’s The Conundrum, and Ozzie Zehner’s Green Illusions, and only the latter took notice of the fact that women’s subjugation is relevant in climate change discussions—his book contains a chapter on women’s rights and he is the only one who points out that one essential factor to create a ‘green’ and sustainable society is giving women and girls power to make decisions—over their own bodies, as well as in social, economic and political spheres.
I also appreciate that his book revolves around the idea that there is too much of a focus in today’s environmentalism on producing new technology and more (but ‘clean’) energy (wind, solar, biofuels, carbon-sequestrating gadgets…)— when, instead of attempting to create the kind of technology that will get our society-as-it-is through the climate crisis, we ought to create the kind of society that has a better chance of adapting to & mitigating it. In other words, realistic and efficient climate activism should focus on women’s rights, antimilitarism, improving democratic institutions and health care, combating consumerism and wealth disparities—things that often don’t register as climate activism, although they have a better chance of improving environmental issues and helping us face related crises than a fixation on potential scientific or technological miracles. I have found in my reading that it is surprisingly rare to find this holistic approach to environmentalism outside of ecofeminist writings.