rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jan. 18th, 2021 04:36 pm)
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdomfascinating comparisons )

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassNative biology )
John Harris, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passagethe slave trade's end )
David Grann, The Lost City of Zcolonial dreams )
Silvana Condemi & François Savatier, A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapienswhat it says on the tin )
David Schneider, The Invention of Surgerynot really what it says on the tin )
Hallie Rubenhold, The FiveJack the Ripper's victims )
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931the economic consequences of the peace )
Kate Brown, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Futureyikes )
David McCullough, The Wright Brotherstwo guys )
Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern Americarailroads and ripoffs )
Thomas Richards, Jr., Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United Statesunfixed 1840s )
Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch, Bubbles and Crasheswhat's a bubble? )
W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in Americaa woman's unequal fight )
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascismtrying to define fascism )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Aug. 13th, 2019 12:30 pm)
Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoirtough love )
Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of Americaintellectual history )
James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Statesanthropology )
Shane Harris, [@]War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complexwe're all gonna die )
Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Menhave some rage )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Feb. 13th, 2019 01:18 pm)
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness: Whoa. )
Michelle Obama, Becoming:She was a first lady, take her for all and all )
Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin: Shakespeare's sister )
Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream”: one of these things is ok )
Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: I'm listening )
Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland: it's a dirty job and they did it )
Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World: we probably learned nothing )
Maria Francesca Piazzoni, The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of SpaceAn English Chinese town )
Preliminary notes: (1) Survivorship bias, or why taking lessons only from the successful is a really bad idea, in an elegantly written narrative.

(2) Ugh, I hate grading.

(3) Note to self: Veronica Mars, for all its awesomeness and willingness to engage with class and gender politics, often enough cozied up to the creepy side thereof. S1 rewatch in anticipation of movie )

I did not notice at the time, but this is a depressing set of books.

a book on gun guys )

Confessions of a sociopath, bad evidence in criminal cases, America's secret wars, why your food is full of salt sugar and fat )
The most recent LJ stuff, brilliantly satirized here by [personal profile] marcelo (or is it satire?), has helped push me to move more towards Dreamwidth. Also, my LJ list has been broken for a while, in the sense that I haven’t been adding anyone back or going beyond a tight filter because I got overwhelmed and neurotic, and I’d like to start again.

What this means for this journal on LJ: initially, I’m consolidating comments on DW, which I hope will help the conversations. I love comments, especially on stories! I really hope everyone comments at DW, or on the AO3!

As for my reading list: I’ll be trying to read new people as well as old friends via starting fresh on DW, so if you like, please do find me on DW, where I’m still [personal profile] rivkat. If you crosspost to DW, I’ll be reading you there. (If I miss you, sorry, just let me know! I’m sure I’ve dropped more than a few balls in the transition.) If you don’t crosspost but don’t have locked entries (that I can see) I will probably follow you as a feed. For non-crossposting journals with locked entries, I will probably try tracking them. Suggestions welcome, of course.

Harris, Singh, Andrews and Brook on hellhounds; Lucifer; Rob Thurman; Laurell Hamilton  )
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