Axel's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:43:26 -0700 60 Axel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Plan B 53849
Suddenly, turning thirty-- past the age their parents were when they were born, older than every current star athlete or pop music sensation-- seems to be both more meaningful and less than they'd imagined ten years ago.

Jonathan Tropper's wonderful debut novel is about more than friendship, love, celebrity, addiction, kidnapping, or even turning thirty-- it's a heartfelt comic riff on what it means to be an adult against your will, to be single when you thought you'd have a family, to discover you are not, in fact, immortal, and to learn that Star Wars is as good a life lesson today as it was when you were six years old.]]> 368 Jonathan Tropper 0312272766 Axel 0 currently-reading 3.63 2000 Plan B
author: Jonathan Tropper
name: Axel
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[La otra cara (Colecci贸n F谩bula) (Spanish Edition)]]> 15634863 Spanish 110 Ana Maria Sanchez 9684066686 Axel 4 love, non-graphic-fiction 4.50 La otra cara (Colecci贸n F谩bula) (Spanish Edition)
author: Ana Maria Sanchez
name: Axel
average rating: 4.50
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rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/06
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves: love, non-graphic-fiction
review:
Hubo dos cosas que me gustaron mucho de esta novela: En primer lugar, el repseto y cuidado que muestra S谩nchez Mora por sus personajes. Se ve el cari帽o con el que los retrata, especialmente en la primera mitad, la cual representa muy claramente como, cuando nos sucede una desgracia, parte del duelo involucra dirigir nuestra frustraci贸n hacia afuera, hacia otras personas que, por supuesto, no son realmente responsables de lo que nos sucedi贸. En la segunda parte, S谩nchez Mora introduce un segundo tema, y aunque la idea misma no es rara en el mundo literatio, S谩nchez Mora la logra muy bien y 茅sta es la segunda raz贸n por la cual este libro me gust贸 tanto, que es como las diferentes personas involucradas en una historia la cuentan y se la cuentan a s铆 mismas. A fin de cuentas, despu茅s de conocer las diferentes versiones de quien era el difunto al centro de la novela (incluso la del propio muerto) lo 煤nico que podemos saber es que nunca sabreos la verdad detr谩s de las historias. Muy recomendable.
]]> <![CDATA[The Auteur, Book Two: Sister Bambi]]> 26590489 Sister Bambi! The whole crew is back and off to a secret island in the South Pacific populated by bloodthirsty savages and monstrous monkeys!

But soon Sister Bambi is slipping through Rex s fingers as Ilsa exerts her dominance as executive producer. The she wolf demands Rex give her the titular role he promised to Coconut. With love on the rocks, and the script in flames, the living dead might be the only thing that can save this cinematic charade! Only the survivors will know for sure!

Don't miss the most insane comic of 2015 finally collected into one terrifyingly funny trade.]]> 128 Rick Spears 1620102609 Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 3.22 2016 The Auteur, Book Two: Sister Bambi
author: Rick Spears
name: Axel
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/13
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves: comics-graphic-novels
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I like dark humor, but I found very little actually humorous in this. In other words, this was not funny. Yes, the epilogue is great, both visually and narratively, the general visual style is masterful at times and the story flows effortlessly, but that is mostly it. Also, filmmakers are too easy a target for satire.
]]> <![CDATA[Mujeres Detras de La Lente: 100 Anos de Creacion Fotografica En Mexico 1910-2010]]> 18205744 Brand New. Ship worldwide Emma Cecilia Garc铆a Krinsky 6075161031 Axel 0 4.00 2012 Mujeres Detras de La Lente: 100 Anos de Creacion Fotografica En Mexico 1910-2010
author: Emma Cecilia Garc铆a Krinsky
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Desde el tercer frente: Memorias de una divulgadora de la ciencia de la UNAM (Spanish Edition)]]> 195719579 Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora estudi贸 la carrera de f铆sica y, posteriormente, hizo una maestr铆a en literatura, trabaja en la Direcci贸n General de Divulgaci贸n de la Ciencia de la UNAM, donde es t茅cnica acad茅mica. Ha escrito varios libros entre los que destacan Relatos de ciencia , Introducci贸n a la Comunicaci贸n Escrita de la Ciencia, La divulgaci贸n de la ciencia como literatura, La ciencia y el sexo, Memorias de un proct贸logo, La vida dispareja y Manual de Redacci贸n de Textos T茅cnico-Cient铆ficos . En 2004 recibi贸 el Premio Nacional de Divulgaci贸n de la Ciencia 鈥淎lejandra Jaidar鈥�.]]> 309 Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora Axel 0 to-read 0.0 Desde el tercer frente: Memorias de una divulgadora de la ciencia de la UNAM (Spanish Edition)
author: Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora
name: Axel
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]]> <![CDATA[Desde el tercer frente: Memorias de una divulgadora de la ciencia de la UNAM (Spanish Edition)]]> 195727866 Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora estudi贸 la carrera de f铆sica y, posteriormente, hizo una maestr铆a en literatura, trabaja en la Direcci贸n General de Divulgaci贸n de la Ciencia de la UNAM, donde es t茅cnica acad茅mica. Ha escrito varios libros entre los que destacan Relatos de ciencia , Introducci贸n a la Comunicaci贸n Escrita de la Ciencia, La divulgaci贸n de la ciencia como literatura, La ciencia y el sexo, Memorias de un proct贸logo, La vida dispareja y Manual de Redacci贸n de Textos T茅cnico-Cient铆ficos . En 2004 recibi贸 el Premio Nacional de Divulgaci贸n de la Ciencia 鈥淎lejandra Jaidar鈥�.]]> 336 Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora 6079914476 Axel 0 to-read 0.0 Desde el tercer frente: Memorias de una divulgadora de la ciencia de la UNAM (Spanish Edition)
author: Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora
name: Axel
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]]> La ciencia y el sexo 35499122
Por m谩s pesimista o indiferente que se pueda ser, es imposible ignorar los avances en la condici贸n de las mujeres, muchos de los cuales se deben a la influencia, directa o indirecta, de la ciencia. 驴Cu谩l ser铆a la situaci贸n femenina (y masculina), por ejemplo, si no existieran m茅todos anticonceptivos eficaces? Sin embargo, en los a帽os recientes un sector influyente del movimiento feminista no s贸lo no reconoce esta influencia ben茅fica, sino que ataca a la ciencia con una gran dosis de ignorancia e irresponsabilidad.

Por otro lado, la participaci贸n de las mujeres en la ciencia crece, pero muy lentamente. Para lograr que las j贸venes se interesen m谩s en la ciencia no s贸lo como futuras investigadoras sino tambi茅n como miembros informados y cr铆ticos de la sociedad, es necesario no s贸lo la informaci贸n sino tambi茅n la manera cient铆fica de razonar.

La psicolog铆a evolucionista abre prometedoras ventanas a problem谩tica de la llamada 鈥済uerra de los sexos鈥�. Sus propuestas pueden no ser de nuestro agrado, pero la autora concluye que el conocimiento es la mejor llave de la liberaci贸n femenina. As铆, divulgar la ciencia adquiere una nueva dimensi贸n, la 茅tica, puesto que la mitad de la humanidad no puede estar bien si no lo est谩 su otra mitad.]]> 192 Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora Axel 0 non-fiction, philosophy 3.75 La ciencia y el sexo
author: Ana Mar铆a S谩nchez Mora
name: Axel
average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Midnight Library 48693877
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.]]> 304 Matt Haig 1786892715 Axel 3 4.11 2020 The Midnight Library
author: Matt Haig
name: Axel
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: non-graphic-fiction, philosophy
review:
The cynical in me wanted to dismiss this philosophical book as complacent mid brow 鈥� which it is 鈥� but then it won me over as a great example of how to use fiction to communicate philosophical ideas. The cynical in me wanted to present this book as making the caee for traditional family values 鈥� monogamous middle class family life as the epitome of happiness 鈥� but the truth is that the main message is much subtler than that.
]]> <![CDATA[Rebel With a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions]]> 206784127 The must-read memoir from Darcus Beese - the UK's first black record company CEO and one of the greatest A&Rs of his generation. From growing up as a teenager on the streets of West London to running one of the biggest record labels in the world in New York - this is a truly remarkable rags to riches tale.

Rebel With a Cause is the story of how a teenage apprentice hairdresser from Fulham worked his way up from teaboy to head one of the UK's biggest and most successful record labels, Island Records, signing and nurturing some of the greatest artists of the twenty-first century - from Amy Winehouse and Jessie J to U2 and Florence and the Machine.

But this is also the story of a young man raised in musically fertile and politically febrile times. His activist parents Darcus Howe and Barbara Beese were tireless campaigners for racial equality at a time when racism was rife, not only on the streets, in schools and on the terraces, but also in the highest institutions of power. Fighting for equality - for himself and for his artists - has therefore been a key part of Darcus's life.

This is the incredible tale of an indomitable leader, an industry pioneer and rebel with a true cause.]]> 266 BEESE DARCUS 1788706102 Axel 0 4.33 Rebel With a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions
author: BEESE DARCUS
name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: art, autobiography-and-memoir, music, non-fiction
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]]> Dumb: Living Without a Voice 36321854 Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the practical hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her increasingly lonely journey to regain her life. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.]]> 196 Georgia Webber 1683961161 Axel 3 3.35 2018 Dumb: Living Without a Voice
author: Georgia Webber
name: Axel
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: autobiography-and-memoir, comics-graphic-novels, disability
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]]> <![CDATA[Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing]]> 1829523
The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.]]> 198 Miranda Fricker 0198237901 Axel 0 non-fiction, philosophy 4.21 2007 Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
author: Miranda Fricker
name: Axel
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
shelves: non-fiction, philosophy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the 鈥渃olored鈥� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta鈥檚 small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia 鈥� a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo 鈥� to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta鈥檚 family did not learn of her 鈥渋mmortality鈥� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family 鈥� past and present 鈥� is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family鈥攅specially Henrietta鈥檚 daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother鈥檚 cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn鈥檛 her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 Axel 3 non-fiction
Also, it is a shame the book did not spend more time on the Gays which also seemed like very interesting and worthwhile characters.]]> 4.12 2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
author: Rebecca Skloot
name: Axel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: non-fiction
review:
As a philosopher of science, I might not be part of the target audience for this book, which I found very shallow in ideas despite a very good Afterword chapter on bioethical concerns. It is also overwhelming to see how AMERICAN the book鈥檚 perspective is! Everything is about race, private property, individual rights, etc. There is a line close to the end of the book where one of the characters identifies the main issue: 鈥渃apitalism鈥�, but Kloot just responds by stating that 鈥渓ike it or no, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of the market.鈥� So, in the end, I find it very hard to feel the urgency of the stakes or care much about the pleads of the characters, doctors and family members alike if you do not share these values and/or do not have this cultural background, which of course I, like many others, do not. The Lackses, for example, complain that they ought to be able to afford basic medical care, not because they are humans and health must be a universal human right, but because their mother won some sort of genetic lottery! Doctors and health 鈥榚ntrepreneurs鈥� feel they have the right to keep amassing obscene sums of money because they cannot conceive why would people care about other people鈥檚 health otherwise! I feel very sorry for Americans and the messed up health system they have to deal with.

Also, it is a shame the book did not spend more time on the Gays which also seemed like very interesting and worthwhile characters.
]]> <![CDATA[Pibas: Antolog铆a de historietistas contempor谩neas argentinas]]> 43438790 Autoras incre铆bles para descubrir y redescubrir, mundos nuevos liderados por chicas s煤perpoderosas: Florencia Pernicone- Catalina Mintegu铆a 鈥� Mar铆a Victoria Rodr铆guez-Dibujo e Ilustraci贸n- Sukermercado 鈥� Mirita (Ilustradora) 鈥� Jazmin Varela 鈥� Kiwi Moe 鈥� Luc铆a Brutta 鈥� Paula Andrade 鈥� Sole Otero 鈥� Cons Oroza 鈥� Romina Fretes 鈥� Maia Debowicz 鈥� Macarena Garcia Cuerva 鈥� Agustina Casot 鈥� Daniela Ruggeri 鈥� Valeria Reynoso 鈥� Maelitha 鈥� Maria Eugenia Beizo 鈥� Daniela Arias 鈥� Delfina P茅rez Ad谩n 鈥� Femimutancia 鈥� China Ocho- Im谩genes de tapa: Natalia Lombardo (Libro color, 15脳20, p.176)]]> 176 Daniela Arias 9874164182 Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 3.81 2019 Pibas: Antolog铆a de historietistas contempor谩neas argentinas
author: Daniela Arias
name: Axel
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/03/08
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]]> <![CDATA[Character as Form (Beyond Criticism)]]> 30532452 Character as Form celebrates the old meaning of character. The advantage of the old meaning is that it allows for generalization. Characters funnel whole societies of beings into shapes that are compact, elegant, and portable.
This book tests the old meaning of character against modern examples from poems, novels, comics, and performances in theater and film by Shakespeare, Moli猫re, Austen, the Marx Brothers, Raul Ruiz, Denton Welch, and Lynda Barry. The heart of the book is the character of the misanthrope, who, in Shakespeare's phrase, 鈥渂anishes the world.鈥漖]> 256 Aaron Kunin 1474222714 Axel 0 currently-reading 4.33 Character as Form (Beyond Criticism)
author: Aaron Kunin
name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
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date added: 2025/03/07
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]]> Made in Tijuana 41146980 160 Heriberto Y茅pez 9686418393 Axel 0 to-read 4.50 2005 Made in Tijuana
author: Heriberto Y茅pez
name: Axel
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/02
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]]> <![CDATA[When Words Matter Most: Thoughtful Words and Deeds to Express Just the Right Thing at Just the Right Time]]> 684266 128 Robyn Freedman Spizman 0517704064 Axel 0 4.14 1996 When Words Matter Most: Thoughtful Words and Deeds to Express Just the Right Thing at Just the Right Time
author: Robyn Freedman Spizman
name: Axel
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It]]> 1584312
This new biography tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director whose pioneering films-鈥攆rom Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever to Malcolm X 鈥攈elped transform the face of late twentieth-century America. Since bursting onto the scene in 1986 with the sexually provocative She's Gotta Have It , Lee has been one of America's most visionary and controversial cinematic figures. Film critic Kaleem Aftab chronicles Lee's explosive rise to stardom, exploring such important issues as Black Nationalism, Hollywood stereotyping, and the rise of a powerful black middle class. With Lee family interviews and the candid revelations of stars like Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Norton, John Turturro, Rosie Perez, and Wesley Snipes, this book is the story of a visionary life in the cinema, telling us as much about Lee as it does about the past two decades of American social history. 40 photographs.]]> Spike Lee 0393061531 Axel 0 3.50 2005 Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It
author: Spike Lee
name: Axel
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/02
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]]> Skim 2418888 Skim is an extraordinary book鈥攁 smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When Skim's classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. As concerned guidance counselors provide lectures on the "cycle of grief," and the popular clique starts a new club (Girls Celebrate Life!) to bolster school spirit, Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.

And falling in love only makes things worse...

Suicide, depression, love, being gay or not, crushes, cliques, and finding a way to be your own fully human self鈥攁re all explored in this brilliant collaboration by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. An edgy, keenly observed and poignant glimpse into the heartache of being young.]]> 143 Mariko Tamaki 0888997531 Axel 0 to-read 3.77 2008 Skim
author: Mariko Tamaki
name: Axel
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/13
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]]> Jaybird 17401766
Disney meets Kafka in this beautiful, intense, original tale! The story of a very small and very scared little bird, who lives a lonely, isolated life in a great big house with his infirm mother. He's never been outside the house, curious but terrified of the world outside, and he will never leave if his mother has a say about it.]]> 128 Jaakko Ahonen 161655469X Axel 4 comics-graphic-novels 3.72 2012 Jaybird
author: Jaakko Ahonen
name: Axel
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/09
shelves: comics-graphic-novels
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]]> <![CDATA[Corridos tumbados: B茅licos ya somos, b茅licos morimos]]> 204121189
Sin embargo, m谩s all谩 de su car谩cter musical, los corridos tumbados son un reflejo del deseo y el anhelo de una generaci贸n. Son la voz de millones de j贸venes que buscan, a trav茅s de sus melod铆as y letras, un escape a las aspiraciones frustradas, y que ven en estos ritmos la promesa de un estilo de vida so帽ado, pero a menudo inalcanzable. Estas canciones hablan un lenguaje coloquial y presentan fusiones musicales que no solo resuenan en los o铆dos de aquellos familiarizados con el rap o lo regional, sino tambi茅n en aquellos para quienes la violencia y el universo del narco son paisajes cotidianos.]]> 168 Jos茅 Manuel Valenzuela Arce 8419407232 Axel 0 4.04 Corridos tumbados: B茅licos ya somos, b茅licos morimos
author: Jos茅 Manuel Valenzuela Arce
name: Axel
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/31
shelves: currently-reading, music, non-fiction
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]]> BP Portrait Award 2018 40778789 88 National Portrait Gallery 1855147769 Axel 4 art, non-fiction 4.33 BP Portrait Award 2018
author: National Portrait Gallery
name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/01/25
shelves: art, non-fiction
review:
Realistic portraiture may not be fashionable among fine arts connoisseurs, but awards and books like this remind us of its wide range and possibilities
]]> <![CDATA[Device Volume 3: Traveling Device]]> 18766171 180 Nemo Gould 1613779283 Axel 3 art 4.33 2014 Device Volume 3: Traveling Device
author: Nemo Gould
name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: art
review:

]]> To Have and To Hold 35382124 210 Graham Chaffee Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 3.00 2017 To Have and To Hold
author: Graham Chaffee
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/21
shelves: comics-graphic-novels
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]]> Yearbook 58317216
Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites like this one, so... here it goes!!!

Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, which is a fancy "book" way of saying "the first one.")

I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day.

I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don't enjoy it, I'm sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I'll do my best to make it up to you.]]> 272 Seth Rogen 075157578X Axel 3 4.36 2021 Yearbook
author: Seth Rogen
name: Axel
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: autobiography-and-memoir, non-fiction
review:
Neither very funny, nor insightful; just mildly entertaining light reading.
]]> American Studies 250766 320 Louis Menand 0374529000 Axel 0 to-read 3.89 2002 American Studies
author: Louis Menand
name: Axel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/12
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]]> <![CDATA[The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) by Menand Louis (2010-01-18) Hardcover]]> 130839708 Excellent Book Louis Menand Axel 3 non-fiction 3.00 2010 The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) by Menand Louis (2010-01-18) Hardcover
author: Louis Menand
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: non-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Billboard book of number one hits by Fred Bronson (1985-08-02)]]> 146024119 0 Fred Bronson Axel 3 music, non-fiction 3.00 1985 The Billboard book of number one hits by Fred Bronson (1985-08-02)
author: Fred Bronson
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1985
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/09
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: music, non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)]]> 60413581 288 Bruce Adams 1477321209 Axel 3 3.87 2022 You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)
author: Bruce Adams
name: Axel
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/28
date added: 2024/12/24
shelves: hipsterism, music, non-fiction, autobiography-and-memoir
review:
Mr. Adams is a terrible writer, but I am so, so, so glad that this story has been told!
]]> <![CDATA[To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue]]> 266862 128 Ted Rall 1561633593 Axel 3 3.54 2002 To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
author: Ted Rall
name: Axel
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/21
date added: 2024/12/21
shelves: autobiography-and-memoir, comics-graphic-novels, non-fiction, travel
review:
More than the geopolitical analysis, what is of most value in the book is the ethnological first person view of how and ultimately why there is such a thing as war journalist envoys. Very eye opening
]]> <![CDATA[One True Logic: A Monist Manifesto]]> 61719002
One True Logic is the first monograph to explicitly articulate a version of logical monism and defend it against the first challenge. It provides a critical overview of the monism vs pluralism debate and argues for the former. It also responds to the second challenge by defending a particular monism, based on a highly infinitary logic. It breaks new ground on a number of fronts and unifies disparate discussions in the philosophical and logical literature. In particular, it generalises the Tarski-Sher criterion of logicality, provides a novel defence of this generalisation, offers a clear new argument for the logicality of infinitary logic and replies to recent pluralist arguments.]]> 266 Owen Griffiths 019882971X Axel 3 philosophy 3.00 One True Logic: A Monist Manifesto
author: Owen Griffiths
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/14
date added: 2024/12/14
shelves: philosophy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge]]> 10644175 488 Peter Howlett 052119654X Axel 4 non-fiction, philosophy 4.00 2010 How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge
author: Peter Howlett
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves: non-fiction, philosophy
review:

]]> MKM 2: Mega-Krav-Maga 86668062 192 Lewis Trondheim 8494061828 Axel 4 4.00 MKM 2: Mega-Krav-Maga
author: Lewis Trondheim
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/03
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: comedy, comics-graphic-novels, travel
review:

]]> MKM 1: Mega-Krav-Maga 86667902 192 Lewis Trondheim 8494027859 Axel 3 comedy, comics-graphic-novels 3.00 MKM 1: Mega-Krav-Maga
author: Lewis Trondheim
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/27
date added: 2024/11/27
shelves: comedy, comics-graphic-novels
review:

]]> The Breaks: An Essay 57548274
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.

The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces--climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism--inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.]]> 168 Julietta Singh Axel 0 to-read 4.37 2021 The Breaks: An Essay
author: Julietta Singh
name: Axel
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Shirley Homes and The Lithuanian Case (Oxford Bookworms Library: Crime & Mystery)]]> 17384064
And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?]]> 64 Jennifer Bassett 0194793699 Axel 0 3.46 2012 Shirley Homes and The Lithuanian Case (Oxford Bookworms Library: Crime & Mystery)
author: Jennifer Bassett
name: Axel
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/18
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves: non-graphic-fiction, thriller, young-adult, young-love
review:
Barely a story, but yes, the English was very basic
]]> <![CDATA[Tinkers of the Wasteland, Vol 1: Cool Chickens of the Apocalypse]]> 25127365
Chickens, though, are scarce: they have been voraciously snatched up by a gang of violent transvestites, lead by a fierce drag queen, who has been charged with the absurd task of hoarding all chickens.

Also struggling to survive in this post-apocalyptic world is a group of mildly-deranged orphans, the Tinkers, who happen upon a mysterious and seemingly indecipherable map. The map gives the location of a secret bunker, one of almost mythical status among the tribes of the Wasteland. Racing to uncover the most dangerous secret of the Wasteland, the Tinkers encounter an almost endless variety of mayhem and surreal characters.]]> 128 Ra煤l Trevi帽o 6079620251 Axel 0 3.83 2013 Tinkers of the Wasteland, Vol 1: Cool Chickens of the Apocalypse
author: Ra煤l Trevi帽o
name: Axel
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: currently-reading, comics-graphic-novels
review:

]]> More Peanuts 25387787
This collection contains 240 Peanuts strips taken from the three year span of 1952-1954 featuring many of your favourite characters.
Illustrated with child-like innocence, this beautiful new facsimile edition introduces new characters like Linus and the beginnings of Charlie Brown鈥檚 terrible baseball career!]]> 128 Charles M. Schulz 178276156X Axel 4 comedy, comics-graphic-novels 4.13 1954 More Peanuts
author: Charles M. Schulz
name: Axel
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1954
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/16
date added: 2024/11/16
shelves: comedy, comics-graphic-novels
review:

]]> Sex and the City 7455 304 Candace Bushnell 0446617687 Axel 4 love, non-fiction
Also, this is a NY book, so you know it will be written as if NY was the exceptional center of the universe, so be warned]]> 3.45 1996 Sex and the City
author: Candace Bushnell
name: Axel
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/16
date added: 2024/11/16
shelves: love, non-fiction
review:
If you, like millions of us, knows "Sex and the City" because of the TV series, the differences will be patent. The characters and the situations are much sinister, sad and decadent. Yes, this is neither serious journalism nor deep sociological analysis, but still eye opening.

Also, this is a NY book, so you know it will be written as if NY was the exceptional center of the universe, so be warned
]]> El Canto de La Tribu 23502110 206 Jorge Hector Velasco 6075164642 Axel 3 art, music, non-fiction 3.80 2014 El Canto de La Tribu
author: Jorge Hector Velasco
name: Axel
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/07
date added: 2024/11/12
shelves: art, music, non-fiction
review:
Muchos datos valiosos, pero tambi茅n mucha especulaci贸n y lugares comunes. Muy pertinente de leer hoy en d铆a, veinte a帽os despu茅s, para ver en qu茅 cosas hemos avanzado y en cuales estamos mucho peor. Recordar que la m煤sica es cultura e ideolog铆a y que no escuchamos en el vac铆o sino en un contexto hsit贸rico-socio-econ贸mico concreto.
]]> <![CDATA[Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness]]> 20808198 ________________________THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR OF BEN WATT'S BATTLE WITH A RARE ILLNESS________________________'Intensely moving' - Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph'Quiet elegance and ringing epiphanic lyricism... a nearly flawless telling of his unexpected and drawn-out battle with an extremely rare - and nearly fatal - illness' - New Yorker________________________In 1992, Ben Watt, a member of the band Everything But The Girl, contracted a rare life-threatening illness that baffled doctors and required months of hospital treatment and operations. This is the story of his fight for survival and the effect it had on him and those nearest him.'In the summer of 1992, on the eve of a trip to America, I was taken to a London hospital with bad chest pain and stomach pains. They kept me in for two and half months. I fell very ill 鈥� about as ill it is possible to be without actually dying 鈥� confronting a disease hardly anyone, not even some doctors, had heard of. People ask what was it like, and I say yes, of course it was dramatic and graphic and all that stuff, but at times it was just kind of comic and strange. It was, I suppose, my life-changing story.'________________________'Ben Watt's harrowing, candid account of his near death from one of the world's rarest diseases lives on in the mind - a fine testimonial to his fortitude, his powers as a writer and the NHS.' - William Boyd, Sunday Times]]> 194 Ben Watt Axel 4 4.33 1996 Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness
author: Ben Watt
name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/10
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: autobiography-and-memoir, music, non-fiction, disability
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Squares-Ville: The Teen's Guide to Adult Behavoir/ Flips-Ville: The Adults Guide to Teenage Behavoir]]> 150724448 0 Stan Berenstain Axel 0 0.0 1965 Squares-Ville: The Teen's Guide to Adult Behavoir/ Flips-Ville: The Adults Guide to Teenage Behavoir
author: Stan Berenstain
name: Axel
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1965
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/06
date added: 2024/11/06
shelves: comedy, comics-graphic-novels, young-adult
review:

]]> Taking The Devil's Advice 202808264 0 Anne Fine 0552777668 Axel 0 to-read 0.0 Taking The Devil's Advice
author: Anne Fine
name: Axel
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Taking the Devil's Advice 1566101 240 Anne Fine 0552998265 Axel 0 to-read 3.75 1990 Taking the Devil's Advice
author: Anne Fine
name: Axel
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)]]> 543123 Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that asustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost alwayslinked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are themost marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises.JustSustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and betweennations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promotesustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links betweenenvironmental quality and human equality and between sustainability andenvironmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism;biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology;ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecologicalmodernization; feminism and gender; globalization; participatory research; place, identity, and legal rights; precaution; risk society; selective victimization; andvaluation.

]]> 352 Julian Agyeman 0262511312 Axel 0 3.89 2001 Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
author: Julian Agyeman
name: Axel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/05
shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction
review:

]]> Libros f贸siles 39706924 232 Alejandro Magallanes 6078486632 Axel 0 currently-reading, art 4.20 Libros f贸siles
author: Alejandro Magallanes
name: Axel
average rating: 4.20
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: currently-reading, art
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Open Compositionality: Toward a New Methodology of Language]]> 49968423 242 Eduardo Garc铆a-Ram铆rez 1498562736 Axel 4 philosophy 4.00 Open Compositionality: Toward a New Methodology of Language
author: Eduardo Garc铆a-Ram铆rez
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: philosophy
review:

]]> Peanuts 25387786 Filled with bitter-sweet humour and child-like innocence, join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang in this beautiful new facsimile edition of the timeless classic Peanuts strips by the legendary cartoonist Charles Schultz.
This collection contains 240 Peanuts strips taken from 1950-1952 and introduces several of the comic strip鈥檚 famous and familiar characters, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Patty, Sherman, Schroeder and Violet.
The strip鈥檚 bitter-sweet humour and child-like innocence helped to cement the Peanuts comic strip鈥檚 popularity and secure its reputation as a true, one-of-a-kind, timeless classic.]]> 128 Charles M. Schulz 1782761551 Axel 3 comedy, comics-graphic-novels 4.30 1952 Peanuts
author: Charles M. Schulz
name: Axel
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1952
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/19
date added: 2024/09/19
shelves: comedy, comics-graphic-novels
review:

]]> The English Roses 302234 48 Madonna 0670036781 Axel 0 3.92 2003 The English Roses
author: Madonna
name: Axel
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/19
date added: 2024/09/19
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks)]]> 190108206 720 Luvell Anderson 0192844113 Axel 0 0.0 The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks)
author: Luvell Anderson
name: Axel
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/10
shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, philosophy
review:

]]> Clyde Fans 41940346 A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one鈥檚 sanity

Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle class that has long ceased to exist in North America鈥攇arrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of their wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family unit is a fraud鈥攖he patriarch has abandoned the business to mismatched sons, one who strives to keep the business afloat and the other who retreats into the arms of the remaining parent.

Abe and Simon Matchcard are brothers, the second generation struggling to save their archaic family business of selling oscillating fans in a world switching to air-conditioning. At the center of Clyde Fans鈥檚 center is Simon, who flirts with becoming a salesman as a last-ditch effort to leave the protective walls of the family home but is ultimately unable to escape Abe鈥檚 critical voice in his head. As the business crumbles, so does any remaining relationship between the brothers, both of whom choose very different life paths but still end up utterly unhappy.

Seth鈥檚 intimate storytelling and gorgeous art allow urban landscapes and detailed period objects to tell their own stories as the brothers struggle to keep from suffocating in an airless city home. An epic time capsule of a story line that begs rereading.]]> 488 Seth 1770463577 Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 3.99 2019 Clyde Fans
author: Seth
name: Axel
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/08
date added: 2024/08/08
shelves: comics-graphic-novels
review:

]]> RENOVADA MUERTE LA 44788118 Una antolog铆a de cuentos negros que re煤ne por primera vez a los mejores narradores mexicanos del g茅nero, muchos de los cuales han sido reconocidos internacionalmente.

芦En esta colecci贸n de cuentos Noir de los mejores autores mexicanos de este siglo, un atlas de las letras policiacas del pa铆s, se trata de dar una muestra de esta novedosa camada de escritores que abrazaron el compromiso de portar la bandera de la literatura negra sin enfado. Alz谩ndose como autores que deseaban recuperar el espacio perdido con libros que se sienten globales, menos enraizados en la imagen institucional o en una falsa mexicanidad. Las narraciones muestran la 诲别蝉肠辞尘辫辞蝉颈肠颈贸苍 del pa铆s, pero no se limitan a gritarlo en plana principal. M谩s bien lo disecan cual cad谩ver en forense, mostr谩ndonos las causas de su defunci贸n. En cambio, abiertamente le dan prioridad a la narraci贸n, al lenguaje y a la trama. Con eso, las obras se vuelven un reverbero que expresa mejor que nadie a esta sociedad, su idiosincrasia y la extra帽a forma de apreciar la vida, a trav茅s de la muerte.禄

Francisco Haghenbeck

Orfa Alarc贸n | Vicente Alfonso | Liliana Blum | Imanol Caneyada | Bernardo Esquinca | Iv谩n Far铆as | Bernardo Fern谩ndez, BeF | Iris Garc铆a | F. G. Haghenbeck | 脡lmer Mendoza | Carlos Ren茅 Padilla | Pedro 脕ngel Palou | Eduardo Antonio Parra | Hilario Pe帽a Juan | Jos茅 Rodr铆guez | C茅sar Silva | Mart铆n Solares | Paco Ignacio Taibo II | Dar铆o Zalapa]]> 305 Francisco Haghenbeck 6073176112 Axel 3 non-graphic-fiction, thriller 4.12 RENOVADA MUERTE LA
author: Francisco Haghenbeck
name: Axel
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2021/07/24
date added: 2024/08/04
shelves: non-graphic-fiction, thriller
review:
Me cost贸 mucho trabajo acostumbrarme a la violencia, pero aun mas a la impunidad corrupta que, desgraciadamente, me pareci贸 tambi茅n tan familiar. El formato del cuento cada vez me cuesta mas trabajo, pese a que durante alg煤n tiempo fue lo que mas le铆. Al terminar de leer estos cuentos uno puede o bien maravillarse de lo bien que escriben los autores mexicanos de g茅nero negro, o bien lamentarse lo poco que la literatura parece poder decir sobre la violencia en M茅xico
]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it鈥檚 the rock 鈥檔鈥� roll she loves most. By the time she鈥檚 twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she鈥檚 pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Axel 2 music, non-graphic-fiction 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Axel
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2024/08/03
date added: 2024/08/03
shelves: music, non-graphic-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker]]> 7118075
Including such authors as Roger Angell and John Updike, both of them synonymous with New Yorker sportswriting, The Only Game in Town also features greats like John McPhee and Don DeLillo. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement鈥攊n 1930. A. J. Liebling inimitably portrays the 1955 Rocky Marciano鈥揂rchie Moore bout as 鈥淎hab and Nemesis . . . man against history,鈥� and John Cheever pens a story about a boy鈥檚 troubled relationship with his father and 鈥淭he National Pastime.鈥�

From Tiger Woods to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in The Only Game in Town . At The New Yorker , it鈥檚 not whether you win or lose鈥攊t鈥檚 how you write about the game.]]> 512 David Remnick 1400068029 Axel 4 non-fiction 3.97 2010 The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker
author: David Remnick
name: Axel
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/08
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk]]> 78130090 An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want

Kathleen Hanna鈥檚 band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like 鈥淩ebel Girl鈥� and 鈥淒ouble Dare Ya鈥� are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?

In Rebel Girl, Hanna鈥檚 raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumul颅tuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk 鈥済irl band鈥� in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.

But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her, including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman. And her friendships with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett reminded her that, despite the odds, the punk world could still nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its exclusivity.

In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful鈥攁nd how they continue to fuel her revolutionary art and music.]]> 326 Kathleen Hanna 0062825232 Axel 0 to-read 4.40 2024 Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
author: Kathleen Hanna
name: Axel
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/07/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Uncle Grandpa and the Time Casserole]]> 30318089 143 Peter Browngardt Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 4.30 2016 Uncle Grandpa and the Time Casserole
author: Peter Browngardt
name: Axel
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/19
date added: 2024/06/19
shelves: comics-graphic-novels
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]]> Doomed (Damned, #2) 17262208 Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk鈥檚 bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.

The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison鈥檚 journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn鈥檛 over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil.

After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory鈥攐r, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she鈥檚 invisible to everyone who鈥檚 still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents鈥� luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop鈥檚 fetid men鈥檚 room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone.

Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.]]> 336 Chuck Palahniuk 0385533039 Axel 3 non-graphic-fiction 3.31 2013 Doomed (Damned, #2)
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Axel
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/19
date added: 2024/06/19
shelves: non-graphic-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I Opened My Mouth to Vomit but All I Got Were Words: The Burd Chronicles Volume 2]]> 53538930 787 Kevin Burdeshaw 1734445335 Axel 0 to-read 5.00 I Opened My Mouth to Vomit but All I Got Were Words: The Burd Chronicles Volume 2
author: Kevin Burdeshaw
name: Axel
average rating: 5.00
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date added: 2024/06/06
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[I Opened My Mouth to Vomit But All I Got Were Words: The Burd Chronicles Volume 2]]> 53313401 540 Kevin Burdeshaw 1734445378 Axel 0 to-read 5.00 I Opened My Mouth to Vomit But All I Got Were Words: The Burd Chronicles Volume 2
author: Kevin Burdeshaw
name: Axel
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Adventure Time Vol. 8 Mathematical Edition (8)]]> 30312570
THE GREAT CHEF IN THE SKY IS HERE!

What happens when everyone in Ooo suddenly forgets how to make meals? How long will it take before Finn and Jake no longer have the energy to save their friends? More importantly, how long before the people of the Candy Kingdom realize . . . they are candy?!

It's the end of one era and the beginning of another as this volume collects the conclusion of Ryan North ( The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ), Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb's extended run, and introduces writer Christopher Hastings ( The Adventures of Dr. McNinja ) and artist Zachary Sterling ( Adventure Playing with Fire ) with an all-new Finn and Jake adventure that is as tasty as it is dangerous!]]> 144 Christopher Hastings 1608869679 Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 4.00 2016 Adventure Time Vol. 8 Mathematical Edition (8)
author: Christopher Hastings
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> SeinLanguage 231869 Seinfeld. For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual. Even though the show has ended, Jerry Seinfeld's distinct brand of humor can still be yours.

In his #1 New York Times bestselling book, SeinLanguage, Jerry Seinfeld has captured on the page his views on topics ranging from Raisinettes to relationships, from childhood to cop shows, and from parents to power suits. This must-have book for all fans--and who isn't a fan?--remains available in both paperback and hardcover.]]> 180 Jerry Seinfeld 0553569155 Axel 0 comedy 3.63 1993 SeinLanguage
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]]> <![CDATA[Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)]]> 199630263 170 Rachel Showstack 0815364776 Axel 0 0.0 Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Las cosas como son y otras fantas铆as: Moral, imaginaci贸n y arte narrativo]]> 55345628
En este ensayo, Pau Luque sostiene que ese es un falso dilema. El juicio moral es m谩s complejo y desordenado de lo que esas dos posiciones dan a entender. La obra de Nick Cave, la Lolita de Nabokov y El mar, el mar, de Iris Murdoch, hilos conductores de este libro, sugieren que el juicio moral m谩s fecundo es el que se encarama a la imaginaci贸n literaria, no aquel que busca la absoluci贸n o la condena. Al mismo tiempo, y sobre la base de la comparaci贸n entre las escenas clave de Irreversible de Gaspar No茅 y La pianista de Michael Haneke, tiene sentido hablar de arte moralmente indecente. La diferencia que mediar铆a entre el arte imaginativo y el arte indecente es la misma que mediar铆a entre la narraci贸n imaginativa de personajes abyectos y la narraci贸n abyecta de personajes imaginados.

El ensayo explora tambi茅n otras cuestiones relacionadas con la imaginaci贸n: cu谩l es el lugar que deber铆an ocupar los literatos y artistas en los peri贸dicos y magacines; por qu茅 cultivar la imaginaci贸n literaria es una manera de impugnar un clich茅 mis贸gino; c贸mo podemos entender mejor qu茅 es el poder cuando lo imaginamos; o de qu茅 modo la tan idolatrada e invocada empat铆a puede esconder intenciones innobles.

Un libro inteligente y 谩gil, que profundiza en las complejas relaciones entre moral y ficci贸n, que vuelven a estar 鈥搊 acaso nunca han dejado de estarlo鈥� en el centro del debate.]]> 256 Pau Luque 8433941550 Axel 3 non-fiction, philosophy 3.88 2020 Las cosas como son y otras fantas铆as: Moral, imaginaci贸n y arte narrativo
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life]]> 18218954 Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family.]]> 336 Nina Stibbe 0670922765 Axel 0 to-read 3.65 2013 Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Stiff: The Story of a Record Label]]> 1884246 112 Bert Muirhead 0713713143 Axel 0 to-read 4.00 1983 Stiff: The Story of a Record Label
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]]> <![CDATA[Pandamonium!: How Not To Run A Record Label]]> 62822181
A Virgin Radio Book of the Year

It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?

As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has been at the cutting, cutting, cutting edge of all things 'indie' for over thirty years.

During his tenure as managing director of Fierce Panda (a role he holds to this day), Simon was responsible for tripping over bands such as Coldplay, Keane, Placebo and countless other acts of independent hue - some of whom have gone on to achieve earth-shattering musical superstardom, while others have merely baffled the crowd at the Bull & Gate in north London on a wet Wednesday evening.

Unfiltered and unflinching, Pandamonium! is the story of Simon's time at the indie coalface, filled with insider anecdotes to entertain music enthusiasts everywhere - from the origins of a bootlegged Oasis release to Chris Martin's delight at reaching number ninety-two in the charts. But it is also the story of how Simon tried to bring a premature end to proceedings, documenting in blunt, matter-of-fact detail his longstanding mental-health struggles.

Yet, despite his raw and often poignant honesty, Simon writes with the warmth, wit, self-deprecation and wide-eyed good fortune of someone who has stared into the abyss and survived, bounding down a few indie rabbit holes along the way.]]> 336 Simon Williams 1788707281 Axel 0 to-read 3.87 Pandamonium!: How Not To Run A Record Label
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]]> <![CDATA[Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label]]> 8835182 Becoming Elektra is an account of Elektra Records in the Jac Holzman years, from 1950 to 1973. It tells the story of Elektra's growth from a small independent folk label to a major, multi-faceted, hit making concern.

Jac Holzman's role in founding and running the company is central to the story, and his capacity for lateral thinking - that led to innovations such as the first-ever sampler album, and a million-selling series of sound effects records - is a recurring theme. But the book is not just a story of one man's business success. It is also about the label's artists and the great music they produced, and other key people who gave the company its identity. Becoming Elektra places the label in a broad context.

A gripping narrative drawing in elements of musical and cultural history, and biographies of the main participants in the story, the book opens with a pivotal moment in Elektra's history, when Holzman discovered The Doors. It then goes back to the previously untold story of Elektra in the 50s, when the label brought folk music to a wide audience. Moving into the 60s the story takes in artists that have had an extraordinary resonance down the years including some, such as Tim Buckley, who are far more popular today than in their lifetime. His story is told, along with those of artists that read like an inventory of 60s and 70s musical innovation: The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Tom Paxton, Tim Buckley, Fred Neil, David Ackles, Phil Ochs, Bread, Queen, The Incredible String Band, Carly Simon, The Stooges and The MC5.]]> 304 Mick Houghton 1906002290 Axel 0 to-read 4.00 2010 Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Ru(i) n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records]]> 28002498
How To Ru(i)n A Record Label documents the author鈥檚 experiences from Gilman Street to Bialystok, Poland, as he built Lookout from the ground up, only to find himself losing control of the label a mere ten years later, and abruptly walking away from the multi-million dollar company when it was at its peak of success.

Throughout that time, however, he was central to the influential scene that gave birth to Gilman Street, Maximum Rocknroll, and a new generation of independent music that has had an everlasting effect on both the underground and mainstream. In the process, he just might even have found himself.

Larry Livermore was the co-founder of Lookout Records, the editor and publisher of Lookout magazine, and a longtime columnist for Maximum Rocknroll and Punk Planet. His first memoir, Spy Rock Memories, was published in 2013 by Don Giovanni Records. He lives in Brooklyn.]]> 291 Larry Livermore 0989196364 Axel 0 to-read 4.31 How to Ru(i) n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records
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]]> <![CDATA[The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology]]> 1367980 384 Eileen John 1405112085 Axel 0 4.00 2004 The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008]]> 60323152 An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MORE

If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000's rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that became bigger than anyone thought possible. There was Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy leader who launched a litany of scene-stealing bands and preposterous side-hustles, and Gerard Way, the wizard behind My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade. Panic! At the Disco and Paramore emerged soon after--a pair of intrepid outsiders who got massive playing by their own rules. As they ascended, MySpace took over the internet and the age of influencers dawned, with emo its choice aesthetic.

Music journalist Chris Payne experienced emo's mainstream takeover from sweaty crowds and mosh pits growing up in New Jersey. In Where Are Your Boys Tonight? he offers an authoritative, impassioned, and occasionally absurd account told through interviews with more than 150 people, from the scene's biggest bands, producers, and managers to the teenage fans who helped redefine American music culture.]]> 496 Chris Payne 0063251280 Axel 0 to-read 4.41 2023 Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
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]]> <![CDATA[Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records]]> 57505823
Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners and transmitters. But when Ginn wanted to launch his band, Black Flag, no one was willing to take them on. Determined to bring his music to the masses, Ginn turned SST into a record label. On the back of Black Flag鈥檚 relentless touring, guerilla marketing, and refusal to back down, SST became the sound of the underground.

In聽 Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall. With records by聽Black Flag,聽Minutemen, H眉sker D眉 , Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, and scores of obscure yet influential bands, SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s--until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down. Throughout this investigative deep-dive, Ruland leads readers through SST鈥檚 tumultuous history and epic catalog.

Featuring never-before-seen interviews with the label's former employees, as well as musicians, managers, producers, photographers, video directors, and label heads,聽 Corporate Rock Sucks聽 presents a definitive narrative history of the 鈥�80s punk and alternative rock scenes, and shows how the music industry was changed forever.]]> Jim Ruland Axel 0 to-read 3.96 Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
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]]> Sonic Life: A Memoir 124028111
"Downtown scientists rejoice! For Thurston Moore has unearthed the missing links, the sacred texts, the forgotten stories, and the secret maps of the lost golden age. This is history鈥攕cuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable." 鈥擟olson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author of The Underground Railroad and Harlem Shuffle

Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan鈥檚 East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York鈥檚 sights and sounds鈥攖he feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music鈥攖o create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire.

His dream came to life in 1981 with the formation of Sonic Youth, a band Moore cofounded with Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo. Sonic Youth became a fixture in New York鈥檚 burgeoning No Wave scene鈥攁n avant-garde collision of art and sound, poetry and punk. The band would evolve from critical darlings to commercial heavyweights, headlining festivals around the globe while helping introduce listeners to such artists as Nirvana, Hole, and Pavement, and playing alongside such icons as Neil Young and Iggy Pop. Through it all, Moore maintained an unwavering love of the new, the unheralded, the challenging, the irresistible.

In the spirit of Just Kids , Sonic Life offers a window into the trajectory of a celebrated artist and a tribute to an era of explosive creativity. It presents a firsthand account of New York in a defining cultural moment, a history of alternative rock as it was birthed and came to dominate airwaves, and a love letter to music, whatever the form. This is a story for anyone who has ever felt touched by sound鈥攚ho knows the way the right song at the right moment can change the course of a life.]]> 496 Thurston Moore Axel 0 to-read 3.79 Sonic Life: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT]]> 63256281
His production work since the glory days of ZTT represents a veritable 'who's who' of intelligent modern pop, including the likes of ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Simple Minds, Grace Jones and Yes - among many others.

This book is Trevor's story in his own words, as told through the prism of twenty-three of his most important songs - from the ones that inspired him to the ones that defined him.

This play-by-play memoir transports readers into the heart of the studio to witness the making of some of music's most memorable moments, from the Buggles' ground-breaking 'Video Killed the Radio Star' to Band Aid's perennial 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', via hits such as 'Relax', 'Poison Arrow', 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' and 'Crazy'.

Offering unrivalled access to the dark arts of the producer's world and the even darker arts of the music business itself, prepare for some adventures in modern recording...]]> 320 Trevor Horn 178870603X Axel 0 to-read 4.07 Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT
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]]> <![CDATA[Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD]]> 17910503
This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Germano, Kristin Hersh, Belly, Red House Painters.

Just a handful of the bands and artists who started out recording for 4AD, a record label founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1979, a label which went on to be one of the most influential of the modern era.

Combining the unique tastes of Russell and the striking design aesthetic of Vaughan Oliver, 4AD records were recognisable by their look as their sound. In this comprehensive account of the label鈥檚 first two decades (up to the point that Russell left), music journalist Martin Aston explores the fascinating story with unique access to all the key players and pretty much every artist who released a record on 4AD during that time, and to its notoriously reclusive founder.

With a cover designed by Vaughan Oliver this is an essential book for all 4AD fans and anyone who loved the music of that time.]]> 650 Martin Aston 0007489617 Axel 0 to-read 4.10 2013 Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music]]> 13151397 288 Mark Baumgarten 1570618224 Axel 0 to-read 3.72 2012 Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love]]> 423932
鈥淐ompelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.鈥� 鈥� The Times Literary Supplement

Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?

Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare鈥檚 plays and Freud鈥檚 case histories, to Anne Frank鈥檚 diaries and contemporary novels.]]> 272 Carol Gilligan 0679759433 Axel 0 3.76 2002 The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love
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]]> Hipocondr铆a moral 61079574
Un fantasma recorre los salones de las clases medias occidentales: el fantasma de la hipocondr铆a moral. Sentir culpa por hechos en los que no participan directamente: esa suele ser la reacci贸n entre gentes bienestantes. Desentrenadas en asumir responsabilidades pol铆ticas, lidian con los males del mundo con sentimentalismo, juicios maniqueos y una mezcla de decencia moral y narcisismo. Este ensayo se adentra en un caso ver铆dico, y en obras de Philip Roth, Joan Didion y Mark Fisher, para reivindicar la 茅tica frente a la hipocondr铆a moral.]]> 120 Natalia Carrillo 8433916661 Axel 0 to-read 3.76 2022 Hipocondr铆a moral
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]]> <![CDATA[Desacuerdos, derechos y filosof铆a moral]]> 108949221 Brand New. Ship worldwide 125 Pau Luque 6077363138 Axel 0 0.0 Desacuerdos, derechos y filosof铆a moral
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]]> 脩耻 207804698 Una loa a los secretos, los equ铆vocos, los errores y las contradicciones. Un iluminador libro de antiayuda.

芦Lo m谩s sospechoso de las soluciones es que se las encuentra siempre que se quiere.禄 Esta frase de Rafael S谩nchez Ferlosio abre un libro excepcional, tan brillante como inclasi铿乧able. Entre el relato, la autobiograf铆a y el ensayo 铿乴os贸铿乧o, Pau Luque convoca una galer铆a de personajes extravagantes y tiernos para pensar con ellos la incertidumbre que caracteriza a toda existencia bellos italianos de o铿乧io desconocido, boxeadores frustrados, adolescentes con dentaduras ca贸ticas, poetas clandestinas, 茅mulos de san Ignacio de Loyola, 铿乴贸sofos abrumados por las cuestiones pr谩cticas m谩s triviales o swingers confundidos vagan y divagan por las calles de Barcelona, G茅nova, Ciudad de M茅xico o Vilafranca del Pened猫s. Son criaturas mugrientas y deslumbrantes que se enfrentan a problemas cotidianos pero tambi茅n trascendentales.

Frente a las soluciones simples (el 帽u que se suele utilizar en los crucigramas en espa帽ol para rellenar huecos 鈥揷asi un chiste entre los a铿乧ionados鈥�) y a las recetas de manual, Pau Luque hace una loa a los secretos, los equ铆vocos, los errores e incluso las contradicciones.聽脩耻 es un iluminador libro de antiayuda.]]> 168 Pau Luque 8433922777 Axel 0 to-read 3.65 脩耻
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]]> Kramers Ergot 6 165406357 0 Editors Axel 0 0.0 Kramers Ergot 6
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]]> <![CDATA[Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life]]> 58783799 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II.

The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war's darkest revelations.

Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become.

Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.]]> 416 Clare Mac Cumhaill 0385545703 Axel 3 non-fiction, philosophy "Both this and The metaphysical Club have done an incredible job in making me really dislike these people", but I think I was being too fast to judge. Now, my general impression of these characters is that they are just ordinary people, and that is what I have come to admire the most about this book: how it makes clear that excellent philosophy is done by ordinary people like you and me: people with money problems, relationship issues, etc. The stories the book tells sound so familiar to me, because they could be taking about any group of five female friends that studied with me or that have become my colleagues at the philosophy department.]]> 3.94 2022 Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
author: Clare Mac Cumhaill
name: Axel
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2022
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When I started reading, I commented this here:
"Both this and The metaphysical Club have done an incredible job in making me really dislike these people", but I think I was being too fast to judge. Now, my general impression of these characters is that they are just ordinary people, and that is what I have come to admire the most about this book: how it makes clear that excellent philosophy is done by ordinary people like you and me: people with money problems, relationship issues, etc. The stories the book tells sound so familiar to me, because they could be taking about any group of five female friends that studied with me or that have become my colleagues at the philosophy department.
]]> <![CDATA[You'll Never Know, Vol. 2: Collateral Damage]]> 8422918 The first volume of You鈥檒l Never Know showed Carol鈥檚 initial,
sometimes difficult attempts at grappling with her father Chuck鈥檚 traumatic World War II experiences by bringing them to light. As Book 2 begins, she is startled to discover that Chuck鈥檚 decision to suddenly, after 60 years, open up to her on the subject has motivations that go far beyond his desire to reveal his past 鈥� putting even more pressure on an already explosive relationship. In any event, Carol finally begins to delve into, and re-tell, Chuck鈥檚 horrific wartime experiences in Italy (which are worse than even she had imagined).

But back in the present, the cycle of family dysfunction continues as Carol鈥檚 own daughter runs into her own trouble,
leading Carol into further exploration of her family鈥檚 buried traumas and sorrows 鈥� with an expanded reprinting of the out-of-print 鈥淭he Hannah Story,鈥� Tyler鈥檚 superb chronicle of the short life and accidental death of her older sister, a heart-rending story (named one of the 鈥�100 Best Comics of the 20th Century鈥� in a Comics Journal survey) that in turn sheds light on her parents鈥� subsequent lives and patterns of behavior. Everything is connected, and the past is never just the past...

]]> 104 Carol Tyler 1606994182 Axel 0 3.96 2010 You'll Never Know, Vol. 2: Collateral Damage
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 1997]]> 386099
100 Distinguished Stories Citations, including How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Jane Eaton Hamilton]]> 400 Annie Proulx 0395798655 Axel 3 non-graphic-fiction 3.97 1997 The Best American Short Stories 1997
author: Annie Proulx
name: Axel
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Av谩ndaro: Historia jamas contada, La]]> 54835322 6077458821 Axel 4 3.73 Av谩ndaro: Historia jamas contada, La
author: La Av谩ndaro: Historia jamas contada
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average rating: 3.73
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Para mi generaci贸n, Luis Fernando siempre ha sido un referente de la caricatura y el c贸mic y me sorprendi贸 que aun haya cosas nuevas que decir sobre el festival de Av谩ndaro. Muy recomendable
]]> <![CDATA[El capital sexual en la Modernidad tard铆a (Pensamiento Herder)]]> 54105863
Dada la creciente comercializaci贸n del sexo y de las identidades sexuales, Eva Illiouz y Dana Kaplan utilizan la idea del 芦capital sexual禄 como un prisma a trav茅s del cual indagar sobre las formas en que el sexo puede generar desigualdades, especialmente aquellas relacionadas con el g茅nero y la clase social.

El presente libro empieza con una revisi贸n general de la transici贸n hist贸rica que empieza desde las formaciones modernas del sexo y lo er贸tico hasta las que surgen en la modernidad tard铆a. Esta exploraci贸n hist贸rica y te贸rica permite desarrollar la noci贸n del capital sexual tardomoderno. Para las autoras, el foco de atenci贸n se centra, sobre todo, en la relaci贸n entre la sexualidad y la empleabilidad, pues esta ha surgido como forma distintiva del capital sexual en nuestra actualidad. A trav茅s de la perspectiva anal铆tica del capital sexual y er贸tico, este ensayo ofrece un an谩lisis sociol贸gico de las sexualidades como una nueva forma de desigualdad bajo el capitalismo neoliberal.]]> 62 Eva Illouz 8425444306 Axel 0 currently-reading 3.12 El capital sexual en la Modernidad tard铆a (Pensamiento Herder)
author: Eva Illouz
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Inconsistent Science]]> 17847503 philosophy to make substantial, fully general claims about "how science works" is misguided, and can be significantly circumvented if we re-frame our debates such that reference to "theories" is eliminated. In this way one is not tempted to think of the history of science as a history of instances of the same kind-- theory --about which one could hope to say something substantial and general. And in addition eliminating theory means that we avoid fruitless debates about the 'real' nature and content of "theories." Vickers' account leads to a particularist philosophy of science, where the reader is urged to appreciate the often dramatic differences between the different "inconsistencies in science" which have been identified.]]> 288 Peter Vickers 0199692025 Axel 0 to-read 4.00 2013 Understanding Inconsistent Science
author: Peter Vickers
name: Axel
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) Hardcover 鈥� September 30, 2003]]> 147776081 Excellent Book 0 Spencer R. Weart Axel 0 0.0 2004 The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) Hardcover 鈥 September 30, 2003
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name: Axel
average rating: 0.0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Case of the Team Spirit (Bad Machinery, #1)]]> 16292250
Of course, when you're just starting your first year at Griswalds Grammar School, nothing matters quite as much as football, friends, stylish jackets, trading cards, or your nerdy teacher's fancy wife. And when all of these things are competing for your attention, just how are you supposed to find the time to solve mysteries, anyway?]]> 136 John Allison 1620100843 Axel 3 3.78 2013 The Case of the Team Spirit (Bad Machinery, #1)
author: John Allison
name: Axel
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/13
date added: 2024/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Bandette, Volume 2: Stealers Keepers!]]> 22856232 THEFT done well is not CRIME, it is ART!

Bandette returns to steal readers' hearts once again! The teenaged master burglar has thrown down the gauntlet with the Great Thieving Race, and friendly rival Monsieur has stepped in to take the challenge. This second charming collection of the Eisner Award-winning series sees the two competing to steal the most priceless artifacts from the criminal organization FINIS and turning over whatever they learn about its plans to the long-suffering Inspector B. D. Belgique. But FINIS's response could make this Bandette's final crime spree!

Collects the digital comics, Bandette #6-#9, plus a new prose tale, guest-drawn Urchin Stories, and more!]]> 136 Paul Tobin 1616556684 Axel 3 4.06 2014 Bandette, Volume 2: Stealers Keepers!
author: Paul Tobin
name: Axel
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/10
date added: 2024/02/10
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]]> <![CDATA[Alex Katz (20th Century Masters)]]> 2430921 Since the seventies, in particular, Katz's paintings have drawn attention by reason of their large formats, simple reductions of form, abrupt and unexpected transitions, and for the suggestive metaphors embodied in his subject matter. The late Thomas B. Hess, a notable contemporary art critic, aptly described the social dynamics and atmosphere of his group portraits in terms of "everyday leisure life - parties, picnics, pets - as if it were a bucolic Age of Gold where everybody is youthful and it is always time for tea." Yet these rapturous, idyllic works increasingly invoke comparison with some of the most ambitious abstract painting of our time. His unique style has managed the difficult feat of reconciling realism not only with mainstream modernism but with postmodernism as well.]]> 128 Sam Hunter 0847815749 Axel 0 4.33 1992 Alex Katz (20th Century Masters)
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name: Axel
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[The Many Deaths of Laila Starr]]> 58673883 Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a job鈥� or is she?

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past? A powerful new graphic novel from award-winning writer Ram V (These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing) and Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying through the lens of magical realism. Collects The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1-5.]]> 128 Ram V. 1684158052 Axel 4 comics-graphic-novels 4.30 2022 The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
author: Ram V.
name: Axel
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/01/29
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Gorgeous art and a beautiful story
]]> Historia universal del after 62609044
Escrito en primera persona mediante textualidades diversas (cartas, recortes period铆sticos, apuntes po茅ticos en el umbral de la muerte por sobredosis), su autor examina un momento reciente en la coyuntura latinoamericana: la reconquista del espacio urbano por parte de colectivos pol铆tico-identitarios que buscan no una promesa de felicidad, sino, al menos, un remanso (des)organizado frente a la violencia del capitalismo en el Brasil de los 2010. Tomando distancia de las lecturas ut贸picas sobre la m煤sica electr贸nica blanca, Historia universal del after propone un materialismo sudamericano de la fiesta en el que lo universal es alcanzado mediante las historias particulares de aquellas y aquellos que dejaron todo en la pista: cuerpos negros, cuerpos trans, cuerpos drogados y agazapados en las ruinas de la imaginaci贸n moderna, esperando volver a nacer en lo que sea que venga despu茅s del fin de la fiesta. Si Barthes se preguntaba c贸mo vivir juntos, Leo Felipe podr铆a responder diciendo 鈥渁gotados pero llenos de fuerza; esperando que llegue el dealer鈥�.]]> 216 Leo Felipe Axel 0 to-read 3.22 2019 Historia universal del after
author: Leo Felipe
name: Axel
average rating: 3.22
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]]> The Three Donkeys (Ariol #8) 30649828 124 Emmanuel Guibert 1629915238 Axel 3 comics-graphic-novels 4.00 2013 The Three Donkeys (Ariol #8)
author: Emmanuel Guibert
name: Axel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/01/07
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America]]> 28202 560 Louis Menand 0007126905 Axel 4 philosophy, non-fiction 4.07 2001 The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
author: Louis Menand
name: Axel
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/18
date added: 2024/01/02
shelves: philosophy, non-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Material de Lectura 122 - Cuento Contempor谩neo]]> 36134074 34 Fabrizio Mej铆a Madrid 6070227662 Axel 3 3.00 Material de Lectura 122 - Cuento Contempor谩neo
author: Fabrizio Mej铆a Madrid
name: Axel
average rating: 3.00
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rating: 3
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date added: 2023/12/24
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]]> <![CDATA[San Fernando. 脷ltima parada: Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas]]> 108902770
En este libro se cuenta la historia de una peque帽a ciudad, con una terminal de autobuses en la que desaparecen los pasajeros. La mayor铆a son hombres j贸venes que viajan a Estados Unidos en busca de un mejor futuro. Van ligeros de equipaje y de dinero. Cada amanecer, cuando un cami贸n llega a la parada, son bajados por la fuerza, llevados a brechas y asesinados. Por error, por capricho, porque s铆. Porque los asesinos tienen permiso. Luego son arrojados a fosas clandestinas. Cuando en 2011 se descubrieron las tumbas, el gobierno reconoci贸 los restos de 193 personas. Y los volvi贸 a ocultar. Culp贸 a Los Zetas de las matanzas, pero no investig贸 las complicidades.

Este libro es un relato coral de esas masacres; en sus p谩ginas hablan las v铆ctimas, familiares, testigos, funcionarios; la autora nos conduce, como el Virgilio de Dante, por los c铆rculos del horror y la desdicha, pero tambi茅n de la esperanza y la alegr铆a cuandolas familias recuperan el cuerpo del ser querido ausente o se unen contra la maquinaria que desaparece personas. La obra nos gu铆a por un sitio tomado por la delincuencia organizada que act煤a a la luz del d铆a, con autoridades que los encubren o que voltean a otro lado para acentuar el silencio que deja la impunidad.

En este pa铆s, nos dice Marcela Turati, la pol铆tica de Estado es la simulaci贸n, el ocultamiento. San Fernando es el epicentro de una l贸gica criminal que la periodista una poblaci贸n en el desamparo donde los cr铆menes son autorizados y las consecuencias de la 鈥済uerra contra el narco鈥� cobran cientos de v铆ctimas. Al desnudo quedan los mecanismos de la impunidad que permiten el horror que contin煤a hasta ahora.

Premio de Periodismo Javier Valdez C谩rdenas]]> 264 Marcela Turati 6073812051 Axel 0 to-read 4.65 San Fernando. 脷ltima parada: Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas
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]]> <![CDATA[Sobre el an谩lisis (Spanish Edition)]]> 165914662 0 Axel Arturo Barcel贸 Aspeitia 6073058160 Axel 0 0.0 Sobre el an谩lisis (Spanish Edition)
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]]> Seriously... I'm Kidding 11230081 Seriously... I'm Kidding, Degeneres' first book in eight years, brings us up to date about the life of a kindhearted woman who bowed out of American Idol because she didn't want to be mean. Lively; hilarious; often sweetly poignant.]]> 241 Ellen DeGeneres 0446585025 Axel 2 comedy 3.68 2011 Seriously... I'm Kidding
author: Ellen DeGeneres
name: Axel
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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date added: 2023/12/22
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]]> Kids Say the Darndest Things! 907387 216 Art Linkletter 1587612496 Axel 3 comedy, non-fiction 4.04 1959 Kids Say the Darndest Things!
author: Art Linkletter
name: Axel
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1959
rating: 3
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date added: 2023/12/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002]]> 9877 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. 鈥攆rom Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie鈥檚 fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit鈥攁bout soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie鈥檚 words, a 鈥渨ake-up call鈥� about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 416 Salman Rushdie 0679783490 Axel 2 3.93 2002 Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Axel
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2002
rating: 2
read at: 2023/11/18
date added: 2023/12/18
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Non-fiction is a tricky business because, except for autobiographical storytelling, it allows writers to write about stuff they know hardly anything about. Thus, we end up with books like these: full of shallow thoughts and opinions, many times written in beautiful prose, next to better crafted autobiographical stories. Stay away!
]]> Fake Accounts 45732027 A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this provocative and subversive debut novel that examines social media, sex, feminism, and fiction, the connection they've all promised, and the lies they help us tell.

On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually, she's relieved鈥攈e was always a little distant鈥攁nd she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women's March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.

Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can't trust anyone--shouldn't the feeling be mutual?

Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community, delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.]]> 272 Lauren Oyler 1948226928 Axel 3 non-graphic-fiction 2.83 2021 Fake Accounts
author: Lauren Oyler
name: Axel
average rating: 2.83
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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date added: 2023/11/19
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