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veen  ·  703 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What have you been reading lately?

This year.... Not much. So I'm prolly including things from end of last year.

The Body Keeps the Score is fucking great, and depressing, and I broke kleinbl00 with it SORRY

The Righteous Mind by Haidt was phenomenal until it nosedives into speculation

4000 Weeks is the antidote to productivity books / mindset that I really needed. I feel like it was directly written for me and it's on my select list of books that I actually look forward to reading again.

Rendezvous with Rama is so far my favourite scifi book I've read, I think. (I haven't read a lot.)

Finally read Bullshit Jobs and Utopia of Rules in its entirety which are good, but I like the latter more.

The Anthropocene Reviewed is amazing but I like the podcast format better.

I thought Piranesi was alright, until it became heartbreakingly great about two thirds in. Did my best to hold back tears in the fucking grocery store listening to it.

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino is an essay collection by a Gawker/New Yorker writer and had a few interesting things to say but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.