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books

Books I've read. email me if you want to chat about any of them.

2024

Banal Nightmare — Halle Butler
Three Zen Sutras — Translated by Red Pine
Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary — Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching — Thich Nhat Hanh
Worry — Alexandra Tanner (Reviewed)
Virtue Hoarders — Catherine Liu (Reviewed)
Children of Dune — Frank Herbert
The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes — Alec Leach (Reviewed)
After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time — Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek (Reviewed)
Buddha — Osamu Tezuka
Dirtbag — Amber A'Lee Frost
Heating People, Not Spaces — Low Tech Magazine (Reveiewed)
The DynamoDB Book — Alex DeBrie
The Unsettling of America — Wendell Berry
The Stress Prescription: 7 Days to More Joy and Ease — Elissa Epel, PhD (Reviewed in brief)
McMindfulness — Ronald Purser (Reviewed)

2023

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers
Time and Free Will — Henri Bergson
Anti-Oedipus — Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The AWK Programming Language — AWK
Saving Time — Jenny Odell
Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert
Grundrisse — Karl Marx
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
The German Ideology — Karl Marx
On the Genealogy of Morals — Friedrich Nietzsche

2022

Nietzsche and Philosophy — Gilles Deleuze
A Promised Land — Barack Obama
Internet For the People — Ben Tarnoff
Nevada — Imogen Binnie
The Novelist — Jordan Castro
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
Something To Do With Paying Attention — David Foster Wallace
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again — Katherine Angel
Dune — Frank Herbert
Starting Forth — Leo Brodie
The Utopia of Rules — David Graeber
Fungirl — Elizabeth Pich
Atomic Habits — James Clear
The Anti-Christ — Friedrich Nietzche