Energy Dreams of Actuality by Michael Marder
I can’t find the source that lead me to this book. I thought the book would focus more on thinking about energy from the perspective of plant life with it’s efficient processing of sunlight. Instead the book is more a philosophy of the concept of…
Top 2022 Reading Experiences
I read more science and nature in 2022 and my top ten reading experiences reflects that change. I have a very specific reason for this focus. I am preparing for dying or as I like to frame it, I will be going through the transition…
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Someone bought me ‘The Tenth of December’ a couple years ago which began me on this blessed Saunders journey. I had never read anything so arresting, like parables but richer. This collection shares a sense of style with that book but now the style feels…
White Noise by Don DeLillo
I finished this novel at 5am sitting in a Tokyo hotel looking out a dark window at red blinking lights, signals from our world to some other one and thinking this is the perfect setting for saying goodbye to this DeLillo darkly humorous tale of…
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
As a huge fan and reader of modernism both as a cultural event and as artistic expression, I came up against my ignorance of Baudelaire and this collection of his poetry over and over again. One of my rationales for not reading it was that…
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Reading this book I felt like I got stranded in a captivating world I only understood in dribs and drabs. Humor, sadness, misery and joy commingle so sharply as to make it difficult at times to keep track of which emotion or sensation is hitting…
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