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But what if I’ve read them? :)

You can borrow some of mine!! :)

That is an interesting thing to try! I’m not sure I own 100 books I haven’t read (that aren’t currently in storage or are otherwise...

I continue to use the library, and many folks on Booktube set up a variety of exceptions: series in progress, books by people you know...

Read Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, which is a nice short read because (unlike most things Beaton is known for) it’s...

For no particular reason, I decided to start one of Booktube’s 100-book challenges this month. This is about what the name suggests...

Just sticking to Netflix for no good reason we have quite a rich crop of modern anime, such as: - Apothecary Diaries: As noted above...

Looks cool, and I must get D+ back so we can watch the whole run. But I suspect it’s a stunt reincarnation like the return of 10 - Piper...

An interesting recent entry to this rather limited pool is Our Stormy Present, which is aimed most at narratively emulating Final...

Looks pretty great, count me in.

Mark Blyth at Brown (Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea, Angrynomics) has some interesting ideas along these lines with...

Yes, that sounds right. Freeland puts much stock by the Treaty of Detroit in 1950, which she marks as the end of the first gilded age...

I think the problem is that capitalism is so deeply embedded in the global economy that it’s hard to replace it with anything without...

She has some pretty useful insights, such as about how this gilded age is different from the last one (it’s international rather than...

Just finished Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland. The book doesn’t...