Madeleine > Recent Status Updates

while i wait to get the molly crabapple book back someday so i can finish it. quite good, and continuing my USSR theme i suppose. i'm starting to think Julia Ioffe was actually *not brutal enough* in describing how horrific things were.

omg i don't care about these ppl and their horsecarts. this series may have run its course for me at this point.

I couldn't quite manage to finish this in three weeks (because it is SO GOOD and also SO HEARTBREAKING. and also because i went backpacking) and so now I'm currently waiting 10ish weeks for my hold to arrive so I can read the last 5%.

this needs to move to the currently reading slowly shelf so i can forget about it. seeing it on my homepage irritates me. i had SUCH high hopes.

Ok dude now you’re just making shit up???

Aggravating book remains aggravating. Robert is checking out some medieval paintings though.

this book is so good! thank you laura d for finding me this book.

I slightly started to write this mess off as a product of his time…and then I remembered when Joe Sacco published Palestine and Safe Area Goražde. 1993 and 2000. Same time.

oh my GOD why did the 90s produce so many irritating white men who wrote smug white man books about people they deemed backward????????? see also from beirut to jerusalem.

why would you write an entire book about people you view with such disdain? also, “travel writing” generally requires…writing about one’s own travels.

the audio (except Ypi's small parts) is so baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

random impulse buy.

i ABSOLUTELY need to STOP following my friends who like reading scary things into the pop-up bookstore that specializes in scary things. i do NOT like scary things.

already much much better than that "how to kill a witch" podcast to book pipeline nonsense.

may actually dnf this (and not due to the various disturbing events, which I was well aware of), which is...baffling and completely unexpected??? i pre-ordered this! i thought i had a huge amount of respect for mary cain.

simultaneously listening to two audiobooks that can't decide whether they want to be academic or popular books is...maybe a slightly aggravating choice i've made.

this was a banff mountain people festival awardee. i like it but every time i hear the phrase "the greater ranges" my ears itch.

honestly i'm basically done with this book and i still don't really *get* john green.

Started reading this because I am baffled by the phenomenon that is John Green. Status update: I remain baffled.

i was not at all prepared for the horrendous childhood trauma content, which is 100% on me for knowing nothing about this book in advance. may keep listening, may take a break and prepare myself and then resume.

Dude is politicizing enthusiastically about how humans have negatively impacted Mount Hood and he is so so close to recognizing that settler colonialism is at the root of this and he just. can’t. get there. I may throw my knitting across the room.

also some podcasts should stay podcasts.

this book really blatantly lacks any meaningful analysis or even acknowledgement of european hatred for the non-christian religious other. like, *mentioning* antisemitism would in no way take away from your critique of the particularly nasty white european flavor of sexism you're so rightly calling out??????

i'm so confused. about why people like this book.

26 minutes in and we are already talking about settler colonialism and fire and how it’s not just climate change. I like you.

...why NOT read 7 books at once.

This is intense and I can't decide whether I like it as much as/more than/less than the other two books.

starting an Angeline Boulley book at 8 PM is a BAD CHOICE if one wants to put the book down and go to sleep at a reasonable hour

Middling. But not that many SAR books have audiobook options, so. And also, maybe I just don't have the right attitude about east coast mountains.