GenreLand discussion

Yeah, this theme was based on *that* Luigi, so books about vigilante justice or assassins would work. But if you don't know what I mean or just want to go off in another direction, of course you could read a LitRPG book or something with a character named Luigi or a book by somebody named Luigi.

I have quite a few books on my TBR about what has gone wrong in our world, like The Gunning of America (gun culture), Pigs at the Trough (corporate greed), Profit and Punishment, This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, Era of Ignition (our time of rage and revolution), Poverty by America, Scarcity, The Speech (Bernie Sanders Senate speech on corporate greed), and Broke in America. I also have the story of the hunt for the DC sniper as told by one of the cops (Three Weeks in October) or On Constitutional Disobedience. Gosh, that's a lot of depressing reading -- I will make it a goal to knock off at least two of these

How about No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson? If not exactly "vigilantism," certainly revelatory about umpteen decades of corporate greed and profiteering in a once widely-trusted American "household name."

I think Stina said we could define our own boundaries for the concept. It would fit in mine.

Oh good!

Cheryl wrote: "I think Stina said we could define our own boundaries for the concept. It would fit in mine."

Yep, that's part of the fun!

I grabbed a book for one of the challenges without thinking about how it works for this month. John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis deals with inequities in access to health care including the indifference of the developed world to the suffering of those in the Global South. And Johnson & Johnson are one of the villains of the book, with their overpriced medication and their fight across the world to artificially extend the patent on the medication to keep it inaccessible to people in poorer countries.

Cheryl wrote: "I grabbed a book for one of the challenges without thinking about how it works for this month. John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis deals with inequities in access to health care including the i..."

I've been meaning to read that for a while now. Maybe I'll get to it this month. I just finished Wikihistory, which is available over on Tor's Reactor site. It's a quick and entertaining read about time travel to unalive a certain historical figure.

I also managed to complete Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the name of Justice.

Besides "Wikihistory," I read a novel, two novellas, and a short story that fit the theme in one way or another. Some of the ways are a little spoilery, so I'll just list them:

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Earthlings
The Album of Dr. Moreau
The Skull