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Cory Doctorow: Radicalized (EBook, 2019, Head of Zeus) 4 stars

Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling …

I've blazed through the first story "Unauthorized Bread." It truly feels like peak Doctorow, playing on all of his strengths in a compressed format that doesn't make room for some of his weaknesses. Really really enjoying it so far.

Jason Hickel: Less Is More (2021, Penguin Random House) 5 stars

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …

A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).

finished reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, #3)

Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove (Hardcover, 1986, Pocket Books) 4 stars

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— …

It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.