rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jun. 2nd, 2020 01:33 pm)
ETA: Hi, I need distraction. I wish I had something other to offer. I hope everyone is as well as they can be.

T.J. Stiles, The First TycoonVanderbilt )
T.J. Stiles, Jesse Jamesoutlaw )
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideologyvery long )
Gregory A. Daddis, Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnamnot his fault )
Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Womenread Down Girl )

Laura Spinney, Pale Riderpandemic )
Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoocelestial city )
Janine Barchas, The Lost Books of Jane Austencheap editions )
William Dalrymple, The AnarchyBritish East India Co. )
Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early AmericaBoston marriage )
rivkat: Wonder Woman reading comic (wonder woman reading comic)
( May. 6th, 2006 11:14 am)
This entry considers Paul Park, one of whose Starbridge novels I read many years ago and remembered as disturbing but gorgeously written. When my to-read shelf began to run low, I ordered several of his other books. My memory was correct, though in the end I wasn’t sure if there was anything underneath the hideous beauty. Park is a poet of cruelty; his work features a stunning variety of suffering deliberately inflicted on others in the name of truth or religion or natural order.

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