rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
2023-09-01 01:50 pm

Airplanes and other nonfiction

A bunch of books about airplanes )

Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africait's not great )
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: powerful introduction )
Henry Grabar, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the Worldhe doesn't like parking )

Ted Striphas, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internetdeep dive into the idea of an algorithm )


rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
2019-04-19 09:34 am

TV and Nonfiction

Unpopular Magicians opinion (not the big one, probably): Read more... )

Looking forward to Lucifer returning. It's too much to hope that it will be like that one J2 story where SPN got moved to HBO and everything got very hot and heavy, isn't it?


Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence: trippy )
Anand Giridharas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World: the charitable is political )Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: he's a mayor )
Bradley Hope & Tom Wright, Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World: the banality of evil )
Jeff Kosseff, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet: section 230 )

Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis: oy )

Larrie D. Ferreiro, Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved Itworld historical )David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memoryhow the lost cause was won )