That was a refreshingly quick read. Less refreshing the weird racism and racial slurs, but oh my I guess it's what you get for reading English books from the 30s
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Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 finished reading Poirot Loses a Client (Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot (15))
Emily Arundel changed her will only days before her death, and Hercule Poirot must "determine …
That was a refreshingly quick read. Less refreshing the weird racism and racial slurs, but oh my I guess it's what you get for reading English books from the 30s
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 started reading Poirot Loses a Client (Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot (15))
Poirot Loses a Client (Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot (15))
Emily Arundel changed her will only days before her death, and Hercule Poirot must "determine which of the victim's disgruntled …
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 set a goal to read 12 books in 2026
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 finished reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
History is full of complex intentional social arrangements that are not states nor hierarchical
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
That took me a long while but damn was it interesting
5 stars
Hoo boi a long read for sure. Maybe we should improve society somewhat... Or at the very least remember that our social structures are not set in stone but things we can decide to change. We may have lost the freedom to move away, to disobey orders along the way, but we should not relinquish the last freedom to imagine and put in place a different social order, and maybe we can get the first two freedoms back along the way
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 finished reading White Malice by Susan Williams
White Malice by Susan Williams
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation …
Excruciating Detail
4 stars
So much interesting information on African decolonialisation and how it often failed is contained in this book. And people tend to be ignorant about the involvement of western powers in the often brutal dictatorships and political instability that ruled so many African states. Unfortunately it's hidden in a writing style that often succumbs to providing almost tedious amounts of detail and directly quoted evidence. I wish this book would have had a different editor because the story it tells is important
So much interesting information on African decolonialisation and how it often failed is contained in this book. And people tend to be ignorant about the involvement of western powers in the often brutal dictatorships and political instability that ruled so many African states. Unfortunately it's hidden in a writing style that often succumbs to providing almost tedious amounts of detail and directly quoted evidence. I wish this book would have had a different editor because the story it tells is important
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 commented on White Malice by Susan Williams
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation …
This book really needs to tell me about interview transcription errors in its source material, but I guess this is now slice of life CIA journalism 👀
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 commented on White Malice by Susan Williams
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation …
Why won't you buy me some uranium ore
Why won't you buy me some uranium ore
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Snuff: 5 stars
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was published on 11 October 2011 …
Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän by Max Frisch (Suhrkamp Taschenbucher -- 734)
Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 rated Paper Towns: 4 stars
Paper Towns by John Green, John Green, GREEN JOHN, and 1 other
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his …
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 novel …
Review of 'Good Omens' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Good Omens is a thrilling apocalyptic fantasy with a good bit of humour. the amount of characters introduced leading up to the climax lead to a somewhat protracted lead up to an already heavily foreshadowed climax, which made me a bit impatient at times for the book to finally get on with it, but the climax then definitely was worth it <spoiler>even if it hand-waved away an insinuated further climax</spoiler>. Well worth reading for sure.
Good Omens is a thrilling apocalyptic fantasy with a good bit of humour. the amount of characters introduced leading up to the climax lead to a somewhat protracted lead up to an already heavily foreshadowed climax, which made me a bit impatient at times for the book to finally get on with it, but the climax then definitely was worth it <spoiler>even if it hand-waved away an insinuated further climax</spoiler>. Well worth reading for sure.
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen is het bekendste werk van de historicus Johan Huizinga uit 1919. In …
Review of 'Waning of the Middle Ages' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
This book took me 10 months to finish, which usually means it failed to pull me along, and I needed to rely on my completionism to pull me through. Yes this is a seminal wok of (art) history, and i can see why, but the views it espouses on the way are just utterly outdated. From normative and hierarchical views of artistic "progress" to Huizinga's Calvinism tainting his views of medieval catholicism there's a lot in this book that just made me(ahistorically) think what a prick.
I don't think I would recommend reading this book even to art history students (unless to quote mine it, I guess). There are better books out there making good cohesive and readable arguments about the late middle ages (and they'll likely boil down Huizinga's main point more succinctly than he ever did).
This book took me 10 months to finish, which usually means it failed to pull me along, and I needed to rely on my completionism to pull me through. Yes this is a seminal wok of (art) history, and i can see why, but the views it espouses on the way are just utterly outdated. From normative and hierarchical views of artistic "progress" to Huizinga's Calvinism tainting his views of medieval catholicism there's a lot in this book that just made me(ahistorically) think what a prick.
I don't think I would recommend reading this book even to art history students (unless to quote mine it, I guess). There are better books out there making good cohesive and readable arguments about the late middle ages (and they'll likely boil down Huizinga's main point more succinctly than he ever did).
I don't think I would recommend reading this book even to art history students (unless to quote mine it, I guess). There are better books out there making good cohesive and readable arguments about the late middle ages (and they'll likely boil down Huizinga's main point more succinctly than he ever did).