Lee's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:14:47 -0700 60 Lee's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[San Mateo: Proof of The Divine]]> 180323301 these words will always be free at the link in the Author bio. The website version is the most up to date, as perception of the phenomenon keeps growing.
This book reveals a new esoteric nonverbal mode of divination
between us and the Divine.
The phenomenon of Destiny, or "Divine Timing" has occurred before Humanity,
and was written about 3000 years ago in the IChing of Ancient China,
and recently in Jungian analytical psychology.
Indigenous cultures and spiritual paths worldwide
also have unique interpretations of this miraculous phenomenon, and the Iching is also rooted in Shamanism. I however have been gifted enough revelation to overcome the question of spirits, as it can be nothing less than The Creator itself. Divine Timing spans centuries in personal synchronicities, and the synchronicities are also alighted astronomically. The ring of fire Solar Eclipse happened on my birthday. The Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse happened on my Sisters birthday. Me & William Penn of whom signed the founding Peace Treaty with our ancestor St. Tammany, is born on the same day as me. Oct 14th. Centuries apart. I was the one in my family to discover St. Tammany, making that synchronicity special.


We're here for a reason.
Love & Destiny are magnetic.]]> 0 Matthew Edward Hall Lee 0 to-read 4.97 San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
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]]> <![CDATA[On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes]]> 15803166
On Looking begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived "ordinary." Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you'll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.]]> 308 Alexandra Horowitz 1439191255 Lee 0 to-read 3.48 2013 On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
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]]> Elements of Indian Art 24982113 196 812460214X Lee 0 currently-reading 4.41 2002 Elements of Indian Art
author: S.P. Gupta and Shashi Prabha Asthana
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]]> El túnel 53447 El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para quien la conoce, un clásico de las letras del continente, una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido más doloroso: la conciencia de la nada.
El narrador describe una historia de amor y muerte en la que muestra la soledad del individuo contemporáneo. No están ausentes de esta trama policial y de suspenso, la locura y la increíble reflexión del protagonista, el pintor Juan Pablo Castel, debatiéndose por comprender las causas que lo arrastraron a matar a la mujer que amaba, María Iribarne, y que era su única vía de salvación. En este alucinante drama de la vida interior, seres intrincados en la bestial búsqueda de comprensión ceden a la mentira, la hipocresía y los celos desmedidos hasta el crimen más inexplicable. Aventura amorosa, aventura onírica, aventura del ser que dan testimonio de un asesinato, de cierta memoria culpable y de una valiente introspección.
Técnicamente perfecta y de lectura apasionante, El túnel excede el negativismo ácido de Sartre y la frenética huida hacia el vacío que plantea El extranjero de Camus, pero tiene de esos dos maestros literarios la impronta genial que hace de la escritura una radiografía del alma atormentada.]]> 158 Ernesto Sabato 9871144261 Lee 0 to-read 4.04 1948 El túnel
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]]> <![CDATA[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]> 15055
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.]]> 176 Jeanette Winterson Lee 0 to-read 3.76 1985 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
author: Jeanette Winterson
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]]> The Well of Loneliness 129223
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents—a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.

The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond.]]> 448 Radclyffe Hall Lee 0 to-read 3.74 1928 The Well of Loneliness
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics)]]> 4645 The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

]]> 144 Ernest Hemingway 0684862212 Lee 5 fiction, short-reads 3.90 1936 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics)
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Lee
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1936
rating: 5
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]]> Slam Dunk, Vol. 1 1311355
Sakuragi Hanamichi's got no game with girls—none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...]]> 192 Takehiko Inoue 2871292299 Lee 5 manga 4.41 1991 Slam Dunk, Vol. 1
author: Takehiko Inoue
name: Lee
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at: 2021/01/01
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]]> The Republic 30289 416 Plato 0140449140 Lee 3 3.97 -400 The Republic
author: Plato
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]]> <![CDATA[Chant and Be Happy: The Power of Mantra Meditation]]> 436059 118 0892131187 Lee 0 nonfiction 3.75 1987 Chant and Be Happy: The Power of Mantra Meditation
author: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
name: Lee
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1987
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]]> What Is to Be Done? 1108378 What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form a political party, or "vanguard", of dedicated revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers.

Lenin said that the article represented "a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation for print".]]> 272 Vladimir Lenin 0140181261 Lee 3 4.07 1902 What Is to Be Done?
author: Vladimir Lenin
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1902
rating: 3
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ALL THIS BEEF WITH RANDOM ASS RUSSIAN MAGAZINES I FW YOU HEAVY LENIN, THO
]]> <![CDATA[Raiul găinilor: fals roman de zvonuri şi mistere]]> 7780338 Raiul găinilor a fost patru luni în topul vânzărilor editurii franceze Jacqueline Chambon, iar ediția germană a fost declarată, în decembrie 2007, cartea lunii în Germania.

„O metaforă explozivă a temperamentului românesc.� (Kultur Spiegel)
„Dan Lungu, cu un acut simț satiric, îmbrăca proza românească în haine de mare valoare, în contextul literaturii internaționale.� (Wiener Zeitung)
„Chiar dacă romanul mustește de umor, Dan Lungu nu prezintă doar o stradă de provincie din România, ci tabloul unei întregi societăți fisurate, al societății de tranziție.� (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
„Dan Lungu trebuie citit de urgență.� (Lire)
„In Raiul găinilor, strada Salcimilor este epicentrul burlesc al neantului, în străfundurile unei mahalale provinciale, și al unui liberalism cu care nu știe nimeni ce să facă. Decît, poate, cărți formidabile!� (Le Figaro Littéraire)
„Strada Salcâîmilor devine, sub pana alertă și incisivă a lui Dan Lungu, o crudă cutie de rezonanță a istoriei și a realității românești. În această lume simplă, unde realitatea nu ajunge decît amuțită și deformată, visul este derizoriu, nimicul cotidian travestit în zvonuri. Iar rîsul, ironia, ca întotdeauna, aici și pretutindeni, exorcizează frustrările.� (La Quinzaine Littéraire)]]> 216 Dan Lungu 9734606964 Lee 0 to-read 3.70 2004 Raiul găinilor: fals roman de zvonuri şi mistere
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dance of Siva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture]]> 915845 In a series of 14 stimulating and provocative essays, Coomaraswamy unfolds the vast metaphysic of the magnificent revelation of its art; its conception of the universe; social organization; attitudes toward feminism; problems of family; romantic love, and marriage. His sweeping commentary considers the "intellectual fraternity" of mankind; the venerable past as it survives side by side with emerging modern India; and the individual, autonomy, and repudiation of "the will to govern."
Enhancing the text are 27 black-and-white photographs � mostly of masterpieces of painting and sculpture from the second century B.C. to the eighteenth century, and including the glorious "Cosmic Dance of Nàtaraja." This handsome volume offers rich insight into the art, philosophy, and culture of a fascinating forty-centuries-old civilization.]]> 139 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 0486248178 Lee 0 to-read 3.96 1918 The Dance of Siva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of the Buddha Image]]> 6053158 43 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 8121502225 Lee 4 3.50 2001 The Origin of the Buddha Image
author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
name: Lee
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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buddhist art historiography beef is unmatched
]]> Last Date in El Zapotal 188909476
This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die –to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can’t stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There’s no such thing as a good memory.

El Zapotal doesn’t want him either. The people aren’t welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he’s having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the line between what’s real and what’s not blurs to the point of illegibility, and we’re left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair, hunger, and regret. García Elizondo has given us an homage to Pedro Páramo , a descent for the ages, a long goodbye with no clear line between the living and dead.]]> 152 Mateo García Elizondo 1913867854 Lee 0 to-read 3.66 2019 Last Date in El Zapotal
author: Mateo García Elizondo
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> Pedro Páramo 38787
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.

Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.]]> 124 Juan Rulfo 0802133908 Lee 0 to-read 4.06 1955 Pedro Páramo
author: Juan Rulfo
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> By Night in Chile 63031 118 Roberto Bolaño Lee 0 to-read 3.95 2000 By Night in Chile
author: Roberto Bolaño
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]]> <![CDATA[Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems]]> 1839960
Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than eighty poems that span the arc of his career, this volume is certain to become the leading collection of Vallejo's work for years to come.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 352 César Vallejo 0143105302 Lee 3 poetry, short-reads 4.22 1974 Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
author: César Vallejo
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1974
rating: 3
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i was also born on a day when god was sick
]]> <![CDATA[Poet in New York (English and Spanish Edition)]]> 953562
In honor of the poet's centenary, the celebrated Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer has revised this strange, timeless, and vital book of verse, using much previously unavailable or untranslated Lorca's own manuscript of the entire book; witty and insightful letters from the poet to his family describing his feelings about America and his temporary home there (a dorm room in Columbia's John Jay Hall); the annotated photographs which accompany those letters; and a prose poem missing from previous editions. Complementing these new addtions are extensive notes and letters, revised versions of all the poems, and an interpretive lectures by Lorca himself.

An excellent introduction to the work of one of the key figures of modern poetry, this bilingual edition of Poet in New York is also a thrilling exposition of the American city in the 20th century.]]> 303 Federico García Lorca 0374525404 Lee 0 to-read 4.25 1940 Poet in New York (English and Spanish Edition)
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]]> Bestiario 191373
1. "Casa Tomada" ("House Taken Over")
2. " Carta a una señorita en París" (Letter to a Young Lady in Paris")
3. "Lejana" ("The Distances")
4. "Ómnibus" ("Omnibus")
5. "Cefalea" ("Headache")
6. "Circe" ("Circe")
7. "Las puertas del cielo" ("The Gates of Heaven")
8. "Bestiario" ("Bestiary")]]> 104 Julio Cortázar 8466309896 Lee 0 to-read 4.25 1951 Bestiario
author: Julio Cortázar
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> The Nakano Thrift Shop 32919876
Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.

Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets.

Animating each delicately rendered chapter in Kawakami's playful novel is Mr. Nakano himself, an original, entertaining, and enigmatic creation whose compulsive mannerisms, secretive love life, and impulsive behavior defy all expectations.]]> 224 Hiromi Kawakami Lee 3 3.34 2005 The Nakano Thrift Shop
author: Hiromi Kawakami
name: Lee
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life]]> 10836
Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comarades-some of whom speak here for the first time-and with CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down. Anderson broke the story of where Guevara's body was buried, which led to the exhumation and stat burial of the bones. Many of the details of Che's life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue. Meticulously researched and full of exclusive information, Che Guevara illuminates as never before this mythic figure who embodied the high-water mark of revolutionary communism as a force in history."]]> 814 Jon Lee Anderson 0802135587 Lee 0 to-read 4.13 1997 Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
author: Jon Lee Anderson
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1997
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]]> On Contradiction 6329592
Alguns dos escritos de Mao - como "Sobre a prática" e "Sobre a contradição" - são de leitura obrigatória para todos os que desejam compreender a filosofia política de um dos mais importantes revolucionários do século XX.]]> 58 Mao Zedong Lee 0 to-read 4.23 1952 On Contradiction
author: Mao Zedong
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version]]> 35744272 26 Mao Zedong 1547154357 Lee 3 nonfiction 3.71 1964 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
author: Mao Zedong
name: Lee
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1964
rating: 3
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annoying white boy coming up to you with an ominous red book and saying ''this is my bible'' over and over again (that might be me)
]]> <![CDATA[On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism]]> 343902
With a new foreword by Bernard McGinn]]> 218 Gershom Scholem 0805210512 Lee 0 to-read 4.23 1960 On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories]]> 125251
Born in Acre (northern Palestine) in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani was a major spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and founding editor of its weekly magazine Al-Hadaf. His novels, short stories, and plays have been published in sixteen languages. He was assassinated in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut in 1972.]]> 117 Ghassan Kanafani 0894108573 Lee 0 to-read 4.34 1999 Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[Concerning the Spiritual in Art]]> 857502 Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings.
This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.]]> 80 Wassily Kandinsky 0486234118 Lee 4 nonfiction, short-reads 3.84 1912 Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1912
rating: 4
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LET HIM COOK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
]]> <![CDATA[Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt]]> 349797 240 Eugenia Paulicelli 1859737781 Lee 0 to-read 4.17 2004 Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt
author: Eugenia Paulicelli
name: Lee
average rating: 4.17
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]]> Communicating Vessels 336901 161 André Breton 0803261357 Lee 0 to-read 3.67 1965 Communicating Vessels
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]]> <![CDATA[Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously]]> 96999
The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth, even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears-in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.

Courage also features a number of meditation techniques specifically designed by Osho to help people deal with their fears.]]> 193 Osho 0312205171 Lee 2 nonfiction, short-reads 4.16 1977 Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
author: Osho
name: Lee
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1977
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Letter from the Birmingham Jail]]> 203899 There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780241339466.

Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations. "Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell," King pondered a letter that fellow clergymen had published urging him to drop his campaign of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the courts. In response, King drafted his most extensive and forceful written statement against social injustice - a remarkable essay that focused the world's attention on Birmingham and spurred the famous March on Washington. Bristling with the energy and resonance of his great speeches, Letter from the Birmingham Jail is both a compelling defense of nonviolent demonstration and a rallying cry for an end to social discrimination that is just as powerful today as it was more than twenty years ago.]]> 48 Martin Luther King Jr. 0062509551 Lee 5 4.72 1963 Letter from the Birmingham Jail
author: Martin Luther King Jr.
name: Lee
average rating: 4.72
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?]]> 6763725 81 Mark Fisher 1846943175 Lee 5 4.20 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
author: Mark Fisher
name: Lee
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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made me a bit depressed but it's all good thuggin it out time to organize and overthrow
]]> The Communist Manifesto 30474 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property, or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.]]> 288 Karl Marx 0140447571 Lee 0 i am no longer a poser 3.67 1848 The Communist Manifesto
author: Karl Marx
name: Lee
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1848
rating: 0
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i am no longer a poser
]]> <![CDATA[Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics]]> 5947245 192 Christine Battersby 0253205786 Lee 5 4.16 1989 Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics
author: Christine Battersby
name: Lee
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/02/02
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this made me depressed (fantastic + essential read)
]]> Washington Bullets 54169138 Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair � a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people’s movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.

Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso � also assassinated � who said: ‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.�

Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.]]> 162 Vijay Prashad Lee 4 cia is terrifying 4.38 2020 Washington Bullets
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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cia is terrifying
]]> The Society of the Spectacle 381440 The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.]]> 154 Guy Debord 0942299795 Lee 3 this almost fucking killed me 4.05 1967 The Society of the Spectacle
author: Guy Debord
name: Lee
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1967
rating: 3
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this almost fucking killed me
]]> Socialism and Man in Cuba 19948056 66 Ernesto Che Guevara Lee 0 to-read 4.29 1965 Socialism and Man in Cuba
author: Ernesto Che Guevara
name: Lee
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1965
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]]> <![CDATA[Che Guevara Talks to Young People (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)]]> 405935 188 Ernesto Che Guevara 087348911X Lee 5 F U C K T H E U S 4.22 2000 Che Guevara Talks to Young People (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)
author: Ernesto Che Guevara
name: Lee
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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F U C K T H E U S
]]> <![CDATA[Secrets of Japanese Astrology: The Science of Kigaku]]> 1910615 144 Takeo Mori 0834802902 Lee 5 4.43 1993 Secrets of Japanese Astrology: The Science of Kigaku
author: Takeo Mori
name: Lee
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Art History: A Very Short Introduction]]> 74644
Other topics covered include the canon of art history, the role of the gallery, "blockbuster" exhibitions, the emergence of social histories of art (such as feminist art history or queer art history), and the impact of photography. The development of art history using artifacts such as the altarpiece, the portrait, or pornography to explore social and cultural issues such as consumption, taste, religion, and politics is discussed. And the book also explains how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles originated in western art production and can obscure other approaches.
]]> 144 Dana Arnold 0192801813 Lee 5 nonfiction, short-reads 3.40 2004 Art History: A Very Short Introduction
author: Dana Arnold
name: Lee
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)]]> 13615
Boredom
Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily, Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?]]> 195 Tsugumi Ohba 1421501686 Lee 5 fiction, manga 4.47 2004 Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Lee
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 2021/01/01
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]]> Crash 70241 Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.]]> 224 J.G. Ballard 0312420331 Lee 0 to-read 3.62 1973 Crash
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name: Lee
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars]]> 13531080
America’s premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, the great themes of Western art. Passionately argued, brilliantly written, and filled with Paglia’s trademark audacity, Glittering Images takes us on a tour through more than two dozen seminal images, some famous and some obscure or unknown—paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art that have defined and transformed our visual world. She combines close analysis with background information that situates each artist and image within its historical context—from the stone idols of the Cyclades to an elegant French rococo interior to Jackson Pollock’s abstract Green Silver to Renée Cox’s daring performance piece Chillin� with Liberty. And in a stunning conclusion, she declares that the avant-garde tradition is dead and that digital pioneer George Lucas is the world’s greatest living artist. Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images is destined to change the way we think about our high-tech visual environment.]]> 202 Camille Paglia 0375424601 Lee 0 to-read 3.98 2012 Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
author: Camille Paglia
name: Lee
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Vamps & Tramps: New Essays 102906 532 Camille Paglia 0679751203 Lee 0 to-read 3.71 1994 Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
author: Camille Paglia
name: Lee
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1994
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]]> The Way of the Bodhisattva 301928 The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines the path of the bodhisattvas—those beings who renounce the peace of an individual salvation and vow to work for the deliverance of all beings, and to attain enlightenment for their sake. The text is beloved by Buddhists of all traditions.

Originally written in India in Sanskrit, the text first appeared in Tibetan translation in the eighth century. The fact that it has been expounded, studied, and practiced in Tibet in an unbroken tradition lends the Tibetan version of the Bodhicharyavatara a particular authority. The present version has therefore been translated from the Tibetan, following a commentary by the Nyingma master Kunzang Pelden, renowned for its thoroughness, clarity, and accessibility.]]> 224 ŚԳپ𱹲 1590300572 Lee 0 to-read 4.24 700 The Way of the Bodhisattva
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.24
book published: 700
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: 岵ܲԲ's ūⲹ첹]]> 1048288 ūⲹ첹--read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea--is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Jay L. Garfield provides a clear and eminently readable translation of 岵ܲԲ's seminal work, offering those with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the profound logic of the ūⲹ첹.

Garfield presents a superb translation of the Tibetan text of ūⲹ첹 in its entirety, and a commentary reflecting the Tibetan tradition through which 岵ܲԲ's philosophical influence has largely been transmitted. Illuminating the systematic character of 岵ܲԲ's reasoning, Garfield shows how 岵ܲԲ develops his doctrine that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, that is, than nothing exists substantially or independently. Despite lacking any essence, he argues, phenomena nonetheless exist conventionally, and that indeed conventional existence and ultimate emptiness are in fact the same thing. This represents the radical understanding of the Buddhist doctrine of the two truths, or two levels of reality. He offers a verse-by-verse commentary that explains 岵ܲԲ's positions and arguments in the language of Western metaphysics and epistemology, and connects 岵ܲԲ's concerns to those of Western philosophers such as Sextus, Hume, and Wittgenstein.

An accessible translation of the foundational text for all Mahāyāna Buddhism, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way offers insight to all those interested in the nature of reality.]]> 373 岵ܲԲ 0195093364 Lee 0 to-read 4.34 1970 The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: 岵ܲԲ's ūⲹ첹
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1970
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]]> Martyr! 139400713 A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Lee 0 to-read 4.22 2024 Martyr!
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]]> <![CDATA[Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture]]> 1335074 320 E. Dale Saunders 0691018669 Lee 4 4.00 1985 Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
author: E. Dale Saunders
name: Lee
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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thank u e. dale saunders u saved my writing-thesis-ass even though u have no clue how to cite ur sources properly and u did send me into psychosis a few times because of it
]]> Idoru. 2136564 0 William Gibson 3453173325 Lee 0 to-read 4.14 1996 Idoru.
author: William Gibson
name: Lee
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1996
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]]> Consumed 18775402
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors—nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.

Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named Hervé Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper into Célestine and Aristide's lives, disturbing details emerge about their sex life—which included trysts with Hervé and others. Can Naomi trust Hervé to help her?

Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.]]> 308 David Cronenberg 1416596135 Lee 0 to-read 3.16 2014 Consumed
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name: Lee
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2014
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]]> Exquisite Corpse 15320 the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.

Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four characters converge on a singular bloody night after which their lives will be irrevocably changed � or terminated.

Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.]]> 240 Poppy Z. Brite 0684836270 Lee 0 to-read 3.81 1996 Exquisite Corpse
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film]]> 293192 260 Carol J. Clover 0691006202 Lee 0 to-read 4.02 1992 Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
author: Carol J. Clover
name: Lee
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1992
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]]> Wave of Blood 208176495 160 Ariana Reines Lee 0 to-read 4.51 Wave of Blood
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]]> <![CDATA[Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet]]> 61098458 Una llamada a romper con el adictivo capitalismo de plataformas.

Con independencia de la frecuencia con la que elimines aplicaciones de tu teléfono, la seducción de la plataforma te atrae. Hay un creciente descontento con la cultura de plataformas, con megacorporaciones como Google y Facebook, que proporcionan el software fundamental para que otros lo usen, y al que casi todos somos adictos. ¿Qué podemos hacer contra ellos? ¿Y con nuestra adicción? En Atascados en la plataforma, Geert Lovink, de la mano de Jodi Dean, Bernard Stiegler y Mark Fisher, entre otros, diagnostica esta condición de adicción y sugiere estrategias para salir de ella. Analizando los síntomas tóxicos del capitalismo de plataformas, Lovink propone armar un movimiento de éxodo tecnosocial; campañas para romper las plataformas monopólicas, la reconstrucción de Internet como infraestructura pública y la eliminación de ciertas corporaciones de los órganos de gobierno de Internet son solo algunas de las sugerentes propuestas que encontrarás en este libro. Su magnífico trabajo viene acompañado de un estilo irreverente en diálogo con una amplia bibliografía para la comprensión del impacto social de las transformaciones tecnológicas en curso. Una obra imprescindible para pensar la ruptura y las alternativas al capitalismo de plataformas.]]> 240 Geert Lovink 9493246086 Lee 0 to-read 3.47 2022 Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet
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]]> Taiwan Travelogue 205363984
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear.

Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something� is.

Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.]]> 320 Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 1644453150 Lee 0 to-read 4.12 2020 Taiwan Travelogue
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks]]> 202489898 The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.

Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit.
Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing.
Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her sofa.

Each of these three stories begins in a reasonable place-but by the end you'll find yourself in another world altogether.]]> 191 Natsuko Imamura 0571384137 Lee 0 to-read 3.45 2020 Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
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]]> Gifted 208155402 A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a hostess and living in Tokyo’s nightlife district. One day, her estranged mother, who is seriously ill, suddenly turns up at her door.

As the mother approaches the end of her life, the two women must navigate their strained relationship, while the narrator also reckons with events happening in her own life, including the death of a close friend � all under the bright lights of Tokyo‘s ‘sleepless town�, Kabukichō.

In sharp, elegant prose, and based on the author’s own experiences as a sex worker, Gifted heralds the breakthrough of an exciting new literary talent.]]> 144 Suzumi Suzuki 1915590787 Lee 0 to-read 3.30 2022 Gifted
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]]> Set My Heart on Fire 208433116 The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression.

Hope I'm in for a good time, I thought. Even if it's just for tonight.

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.

Set My Heart on Fire is a visceral novel about mistaken relationships and the convolutions of desire, about regret and acceptance. Pulsing through the narration is the protagonist's love of music, a vital soundtrack spanning the Zombies, T. Rex and the Rolling Stones as well as underground Japanese psychedelic-rock bands such as the Tigers and the Tempters.]]> 192 Izumi Suzuki 180429330X Lee 0 to-read 3.37 1983 Set My Heart on Fire
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]]> Intelligence and Spirit 35218850
In Intelligence and Spirit Reza Negarestani formulates the ultimate form of intelligence as a theoretical and practical thought unfettered by the temporal order of things, a real movement capable of overcoming any state of affairs that, from the perspective of the present, may appear to be the complete totality of its history.

Building on Hegel’s account of geist as a multi-agent conception of mind and Kant’s transcendental psychology as a functional analysis of the conditions of possibility of having mind, Negarestani provides a critique of both classical humanism and dominant trends in posthumanism.

This remarkable fusion of continental philosophy in the form of a renewal of the speculative ambitions of German Idealism, and analytic philosophy in the form of extended thought-experiments and a philosophy of artificial languages, opens up new perspectives on the meaning of human intelligence, and explores the real potential of posthuman intelligence and what it means for us to live in its prehistory.]]> 592 Reza Negarestani 0997567406 Lee 0 to-read 4.16 2018 Intelligence and Spirit
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery]]> 10609080 64 Romio Shrestha 1601090609 Lee 0 to-read 4.45 2009 Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery
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average rating: 4.45
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]]> The Sound and the Fury 10975 366 William Faulkner Lee 0 to-read 3.86 1929 The Sound and the Fury
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]]> Axiomatic 156783 Axiomatic is a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992.

Contents:
The Infinite Assassin (1991)
The Hundred Light-Year Diary (1992)
Eugene (1990)
The Caress (1990)
Blood Sisters (1991)
Axiomatic (1990)
The Safe-Deposit Box (1990)
Seeing (1995)
A Kidnapping (1995)
Learning to Be Me (1990)
The Moat (1991)
The Walk (1992)
The Cutie (1989)
Into Darkness (1992)
Appropriate Love (1991)
The Moral Virologist (1990)
Closer (1992)
Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies (1992)]]> 293 Greg Egan 0061052655 Lee 0 to-read 4.26 1995 Axiomatic
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]]> Exterminator! 156484
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best.]]> 176 William S. Burroughs 0140050035 Lee 0 to-read 3.75 1973 Exterminator!
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adding Machine: Selected Essays]]> 81601 205 William S. Burroughs 1559702109 Lee 4 4.10 1985 The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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took me 3 years to finish this book. one of my biggest achievements up to date
]]> Passing 57640287 Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.

Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.]]> 141 Nella Larsen 0593437845 Lee 0 to-read 3.91 1929 Passing
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book published: 1929
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]]> <![CDATA[The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture]]> 207073 288 Ihab Hassan 0814204287 Lee 0 to-read 3.84 1987 The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[Malleable Māra: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil]]> 49106080 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personification of death and desire. Portrayed as a combination of god and demon, Māra serves as a key antagonist to the Buddha, his followers, and Buddhist teaching in general. From ancient India to later Buddhist thought in East Asia to more recent representations in Western culture and media, Māra has been used to satirize Hindu divinities, taken the form of wrathful Tibetan gods, communicated psychoanalytic tropes, and appeared as a villain in episodes of Doctor Who. Michael D. Nichols details and surveys the historical transformations of the Māra figure and demonstrates how different Buddhist communities at different times have used this symbol to react to changing social and historical circumstances. Employing literary and cultural theory, Nichols argues that the representation of Māra closely parallels and reflects the social concerns and anxieties of the particular Buddhist community producing it.]]> 268 Michael D. Nichols 1438473222 Lee 0 to-read 3.00 Malleable Māra: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil
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]]> Gitanjali 66414 Gitanjali is regarded as one of his greatest achievements, and has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published in 1910.]]> 80 Rabindranath Tagore 1420926306 Lee 0 to-read 4.34 1910 Gitanjali
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]]> Enter Ghost 59725231 A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet

After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia stayed in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.

At Haneen’s, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Sonia is soon rehearsing Gertude’s lines in classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than in Haifa, along with a dedicated group of men from all over historic Palestine who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.

A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation.]]> 336 Isabella Hammad 080216238X Lee 4 4.13 2023 Enter Ghost
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rating: 4
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my skeletal structure was deeply affected. free palestine
]]> <![CDATA[The White Book (Le Livre Blanc)]]> 420816 Le Livre blanc is one of the most personal works by Jean Cocteau. In a text that is elegant, daring and as relevant as ever, this novel � a singular account of a homosexual experience � sheds a unique light on a source of inspiration central to the poet’s entire oeuvre. This edition reproduces in color the eighteen magnificent drawings by Cocteau that accompanied the text in its first illustrated edition in 1930.]]> 104 Jean Cocteau 0872862380 Lee 4 :( 3.84 1927 The White Book (Le Livre Blanc)
author: Jean Cocteau
name: Lee
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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]]> The Holy Terrors 80268
At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game -- but unfortunately the rules of the Game mean that everybody loses.]]> 192 Jean Cocteau 0811200213 Lee 0 to-read 3.88 1929 The Holy Terrors
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> Coexistence: Stories 200058329 A Minor Chorus. A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor returns home to conduct research only to be haunted by the ghost of a nun.

The stories and voices in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut story collection, Coexistence, are buoyed by philosophical undergirding, poetic demand, and the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics. Belcourt pirouettes through the short-story form in his signature staccato voice, imagining a range of characters from all walks of native life. He is an expert in celebrating the ways indigenous peoples make total conquest impossible.]]> 176 Billy-Ray Belcourt 1324075945 Lee 0 to-read 4.33 2024 Coexistence: Stories
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900]]> 60372656
From ancient mythology to contemporary cinema, the motif of the double―which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts, splits, and reenacts―has captured our imaginations, both attracting and repelling us. The Double examines this essential concept through the lens of art, from modernism to contemporary practice―from the paired paintings of Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky, to the double line works of Piet Mondrian and Marlow Moss, to Eva Hesse’s One More Than One , Lorna Simpson’s Two Necklines , Roni Horn’s Pair Objects , and Rashid Johnson’s The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett) . James Meyer’s survey text explores four modes of Seeing Double through repetition; Reversal, the inversion or mirroring of an image or form; Dilemma, the staging of an absurd or impossible choice; and the Divided and Doubled Self (split and shadowed selves, personae, fraternal doubles, and pairs). Thought-provoking essays by leading scholars Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Andrew Solomon discuss a host of topics, including the ontology and ethics of the double, the double and psychoanalysis, double consciousness, the doppelgänger in silent cinema, and the queer double.

Richly illustrated throughout, The Double is a multifaceted exploration of an enduring theme in art, from painting and sculpture to photography, film, video, and performance.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Exhibition Schedule
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
July 10–October 31, 2022]]> 288 James Meyer 0691236178 Lee 0 to-read 3.00 The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
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]]> <![CDATA[Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency]]> 50755102 “One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction� (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century.

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways of living.

Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, and their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Wolfgang Tillmans, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, Funny Weather celebrates art as an antidote to a terrifying political moment.]]> 272 Olivia Laing 132400570X Lee 0 to-read 4.01 2020 Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
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]]> <![CDATA[Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration]]> 89213 Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays � a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation � Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.]]> 288 David Wojnarowicz 0679732276 Lee 0 to-read 4.49 1991 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
author: David Wojnarowicz
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average rating: 4.49
book published: 1991
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]]> Guerrilla Warfare 153117 436 Ernesto Che Guevara 0803270100 Lee 0 to-read 3.77 1961 Guerrilla Warfare
author: Ernesto Che Guevara
name: Lee
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1961
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]]> <![CDATA[The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey]]> 172732
This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.

Features of this edition include:

A preface by Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida
Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet
Photos & maps from the original journey
Postcript: Che’s personal reflections on his formative years: “A child of my environment.�

Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

ձ> 175 Ernesto Che Guevara 1876175702 Lee 0 to-read 3.81 1992 The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance]]> 405193 240 Bruce Fink 0691015899 Lee 0 to-read 4.29 1995 The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
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name: Lee
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1995
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]]> Brotherhood 56035426 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.

Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman’s personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child’s life.

At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood’s brutality, a band of intellectuals and free-thinkers seeks to awaken the conscience of the cowed populace and foment rebellion by publishing an underground newspaper. While they grapple with the implications of what they have done, the regime’s brutal leader begins a personal crusade to find the responsible parties, and bring them to his own sense of justice.

In this brilliant analysis of tyranny and brutality, Mbougar Sarr explores the ways in which resistance and heroism can often give way to cowardice, all while giving voice to the moral ambiguities and personal struggles involved in each of his characters� search to impose the values they hold most dear.]]> 208 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr Lee 0 to-read 3.97 2014 Brotherhood
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]]> <![CDATA[Night of the Milky Way Railway]]> 416527 192 Kenji Miyazawa 0873328205 Lee 0 to-read 3.99 1934 Night of the Milky Way Railway
author: Kenji Miyazawa
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]]> Go Tell It to the Mountain 32491350 Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.]]> 221 James Baldwin Lee 5 3.93 1953 Go Tell It to the Mountain
author: James Baldwin
name: Lee
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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yes i did cry a lot while reading this what's it to you
]]> <![CDATA[Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers]]> 624450 Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation.From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip:
"The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image."

A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press]]> 158 Ilya Ilf 1568986009 Lee 0 to-read 4.24 1937 Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
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]]> The Face of Another 10000 The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.

His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract, The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.]]> 238 Kōbō Abe 0375726535 Lee 5 3.78 1964 The Face of Another
author: Kōbō Abe
name: Lee
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1964
rating: 5
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wow i feel completely ruined. kobo abe u are so right man. are we not capable of bonding with each other as humans because we wear all sorts of masks which fuse with our real faces, some which can be seen through by the people we are foolishly trying to fool, or is our fear of intimacy and self-isolation in themselves a mask we refuse to let go of? i am ruined btw !! i need a 5 yr vacation in a remote mountain resort where no one knows who i am and there's no distinction between mask and real face !!!!!!
]]> Beautiful Losers 102908
First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.]]> 243 Leonard Cohen 0679748253 Lee 0 idk-what-to-think-about-this 3.62 1966 Beautiful Losers
author: Leonard Cohen
name: Lee
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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this was the wildest thing i've read so far
]]> Crush 96259 Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness� of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”]]> 80 Richard Siken 0300107897 Lee 5 and the gentleness that comes / not from the absence of violence / but despite the abundance of it.
]]> 4.35 2005 Crush
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and the gentleness that comes / not from the absence of violence / but despite the abundance of it.

]]> Thousand Cranes 14027 here.

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.

While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents� deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.]]> 147 Yasunari Kawabata 0679762655 Lee 0 to-read 3.76 1952 Thousand Cranes
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> La luna e i falò 1739060 211 Cesare Pavese 8806174193 Lee 0 to-read 3.75 1950 La luna e i falò
author: Cesare Pavese
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[Project Japan. Metabolism Talks...]]> 10802310

Back to the future
Visionary architecture in postwar Japan

“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think� although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture—Metabolism—that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men� Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....� —Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist

Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism—the first non-western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images—master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions�telling the 20th century history of Japan through its architecture, from the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s to a devastated Japan after the war, the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokoy, to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, to the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo �70 in Osaka and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair.

]]> 719 Rem Koolhaas 3836525089 Lee 0 to-read 4.53 2011 Project Japan. Metabolism Talks...
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average rating: 4.53
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]]> The Cloud of Unknowing 1654615 144 Anonymous 0140441085 Lee 0 to-read 3.31 1400 The Cloud of Unknowing
author: Anonymous
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average rating: 3.31
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]]> Água Viva 13082435 88 Clarice Lispector 0811219909 Lee 0 to-read 4.32 1973 Água Viva
author: Clarice Lispector
name: Lee
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> Money for Maria: Stories 2101011 268 Valentin Rasputin 5050024471 Lee 4 3.81 1967 Money for Maria: Stories
author: Valentin Rasputin
name: Lee
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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i can't put my finger on it, but i know this book shifted my soul to the side just a little bit and i know there is something too frightening and too beautiful inside this book that you can't perceive directly, something that is shielded somehow, shadowed, something that i don't exactly have any words for . . . but what do i know anyway
]]> <![CDATA[Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings]]> 792712
A master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be called micro-fiction, Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of and in spite of the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

About the Editor


MATVEI YANKELEVICH is also a co-translator of Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (2006). His translation of the Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" appears in Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky. He is the author of a long poem, The Present Work, and his writing has appeared in Fence, Open City, and many other literary journals. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Press in Brooklyn.]]> 287 Daniil Kharms 1585677434 Lee 0 to-read 4.30 2007 Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[Of Lost Cities: The Maghribī Poetic Imagination]]> 211119925
The first work of its kind in English, Of Lost Cities explores the poetics and politics of elegiac and nostalgic representations of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the ingeniously indigenous and indigenously ingenious manipulation of the classical Arabic subgenres of city elegy and nostalgia for one’s homeland. Often overlooked, these poems � distinctively Maghribī, both classical and vernacular, and written in Arabic and Tamazight � deserve wider recognition in the broader tradition and canon of (post)classical Arabic poetry. Alongside close readings of Maghribī poets such as Ibn Rashīq, Ibn Sharaf, al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr, Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī, Ibn Khamīs, Abū al-Fat� al-Tūnisī, al-Tuhāmī Amghār, and Ibn al-Shāhid, Nizar Hermes provides a comparative analysis using Western theories of place, memory, and nostalgia.

Containing the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghribī poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss, remembrance, and longing.]]> 256 Nizar F. Hermes 0228023033 Lee 0 to-read 3.00 Of Lost Cities: The Maghribī Poetic Imagination
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]]> House of Incest 11043 72 Anaïs Nin 0804001480 Lee 3 3.95 1915 House of Incest
author: Anaïs Nin
name: Lee
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1915
rating: 3
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meet the modern Christ, who is crucified by his own nerves, for all our neurotic sins
]]> Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 249 Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."]]> 318 Henry Miller 0802131786 Lee 0 to-read 3.69 1934 Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
author: Henry Miller
name: Lee
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1934
rating: 0
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]]> Delta of Venus 11041
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.

Part of the Quality Paperback Book Club series with limited-edition art cover. Cover art painted by Monica Elias.]]> 271 Anaïs Nin 1579125743 Lee 0 to-read 3.67 1977 Delta of Venus
author: Anaïs Nin
name: Lee
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> Shame 124950408
With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.]]> 112 Annie Ernaux Lee 4 3.72 1997 Shame
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Lee
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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i literally also live in constant shame and this book spoke to me on a spiritual level
]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Lee 5 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Lee
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/31
date added: 2024/05/31
shelves: favorites, fiction, surrealism, this-book-left-me-alienated, insane-in-a-good-way
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everything is screaming inside of me i am sick i am in awe i am devastated i am actually crying every single cell in my body and every single bone is crying rn
]]> Rouge 157184735 From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.]]> 383 Mona Awad Lee 0 to-read 3.54 2023 Rouge
author: Mona Awad
name: Lee
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2023
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]]> Selected Poems, 1956-1968 536386 245 Leonard Cohen 0771022093 Lee 0 to-read 4.29 1968 Selected Poems, 1956-1968
author: Leonard Cohen
name: Lee
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1968
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date added: 2024/05/18
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