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Sam

sam@books.theunseen.city

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

Cooperator, luddite, and Atlantan. Solidarity forever 🌹. When not reading 📚 probably wants to be out swing or blues dancing 🕺, backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.

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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …

I'll probably pick this up again at some point, but it's very long and I only really feel like reading it during the day when I'm on break at work. Unfortunately the libraries max checkout policy is too short for me to get very far in 15 minute increments. I was enjoying it, but I'll have to find a way to get a copy for myself or figure out if I can wait a bit and check it out again later.

Robert Evans: After The Revolution (Paperback, 2022, AK Press) 4 stars

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an …

I have a draft of a novella right now that sounds like a less action-y version of this set around Atlanta instead of Austin. Given that I used to live in Austin maybe I should read this! Or maybe I should avoid it so I don't accidentally let things bleed over since it sounds like a similar concept!