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Jessamyn C. West
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2025 reading list and commentary
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This is my twenty-first year of keeping these booklist entries. Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2025 booklist. The thread of this year’s books will kick off once I’ve finished a book (update: it’s here). Will it be yet another Ruth Galloway novel, Tigers Between Empires, or the graphic
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The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir about Food, Love & Family:
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Title and description felt somewhat misleading--yes, it was about snacking, but it did not feel as light a book as it seemed in its description. Yes, the description mentioned the eating disordered, but it called the book a "fresh comic memoir" " Read more of this review » |
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Please note trigger warnings for eating disorders in this book. The Joy of Snacking was a book that personally didn't connect wit" Read more of this review » |
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| I will read any book about a library. This one was particularly good. A near future tale of book-type libraries being shuttered in favor of "check out an AI author/personage" experience-based libraries. But something's up. The "virtus" (as the virtua ...more | |
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| You probably know Monteiro if you are a designer or work with designers. He is a "tell it like it is" guy who is in favor of strong unions, good jobs, unlearning some of the bad stuff from design school and making a lot of angry jokes many of which a ...more | |
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Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out:
"I don't think you can like, appreciate, respect, or even GET this book if you don't have some familiarity with zine style and culture, or the blog culture that grew out of it. Because this is essentially a zine. It's also already wildly out of date. "
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The Age of Video Games: A Graphic History of Gaming from Pong to VR and Beyond
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Thank you for this. I just read Side Quest a few months ago and this book was both super familiar and also not and you've explained it.
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this had some fun facts, but the chronology was so discombobulated, the language contained a lot misused Gen Z slang, and the explanations ranged from explaining what MMORPG means and then following it u" Read more of this review » |
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I find that "too stressed to eat" thing SUCH a trope. It seemed like her and her spouse knew how to "play the game" for a long time and now, after his
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“Nothing must happen to you.
No, what am I saying. Everything must happen to you, And it must be wonderful.” Bodil Malmsten |
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“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”
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“By speaking of ourselves in a positive and affirmative fashion and finding ways to eradicate self-hate, by speaking kindly about ourselves and those around us, we can foster a sense of love and compassion powerful enough to restructure our society’s entire perspective of “body love.”
― Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.
― Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“Nothing must happen to you.
No, what am I saying.
Everything must happen to you,
And it must be wonderful.”
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No, what am I saying.
Everything must happen to you,
And it must be wonderful.”
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