Listened to all these, through public library audiobook, over the past two weeks -- Alexander, _The New Jim Crow_ (2010) Ward, _Salvage the Bones_ (2011) Rankine, _Citizen_ (2014) Ward, _Sing, Unburied Sing_ (2017) bsky.app/profile/aohs...
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I’ve tried to sign up to Libby but I think San Diego has two library systems and my local one is the wrong one - should keep trying!
aug 20, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I also support a friend’s bookstore with Lindo.fm, but just with one credit a month
aug 20, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Libro.fm, rather
aug 20, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
How have the tomes been treating you?
aug 20, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
You toming?
aug 20, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just now - started the VSIs to prep for a course I’m teaching in the fall and sort of just kept going. What I need to do now is finish the course prep…hard to do while watching the little one all day!
aug 20, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Very Short Attention Spans!
aug 20, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
My two year old agrees
aug 20, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Longest thing I’ve been reading in print is Coetzee’s Provincial Life trilogy but I’ve been on that forever (need to pick up at book 3).
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Also Kautilya but I’ve just been browsing that.
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I forgot to include all thirty books my two-year old makes me read to them every night during the bedtime fillibuster ritual
aug 20, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Ha yes I don’t include those - but we are finally getting to some real books: Narnia and “Alice in Underland”.
aug 20, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
_Genji_ was kind of a slog bsky.app/profile/aohs...
aug 20, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Spent a lot of time on the computer looking at kinship charts, maps, and reception history. And tweetin' about the experience. bsky.app/profile/aohs...
aug 20, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
_Stalingrad_ is good so far, I've already spent a lot of time with these characters from _Life and Fate_, the second and better-known half of the double tome, so it's interesting to read about their past lives. bsky.app/profile/aohs...
aug 20, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm trying to get as much out of Libby as I can before it's gutted. I think it's slated to be a Big, Beautiful Bill casualty.
aug 20, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Tome-wise, I wrapped up _Tale of the Genji_ (Tyler trans.) and embarking on Grossman's _Stalingrad_. Next audiobook is Budi Darma's _People from Bloomington_ bsky.app/profile/aohs...
aug 20, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view