I've been laid low by the covid and flu vaccines I got yesterday, so I don't feel up to writing tonight. Low-grade fever most of the day, and still kind of an oogy feeling now that the fever is gone.
I'm hoping for a normal morning tomorrow!
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- Daughter Number Three
- Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people's media. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading its contents to the cloud.
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Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System by Wes Marshall and The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Recent Favorites
- As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and why Things Are Better than You Think by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Fangirl and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
- My Real Children and The Just City by Jo Walton
- The Shape of a Hundred Hips by Patricia Cumbie
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
- The World We Made by Jonathon Porritt
All-time Favorites
Future Favorites?
- The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter
- Eaarth by Bill McKibben
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
- Just Food by James E. McWilliams
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg
- The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs
- Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Nabhan
- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Favorite Thought-Provokers
- 1491 and 1493 by Charles C. Mann
- American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
- Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Citizens of the Empire by Robert Jensen
- Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution by Marjorie Kelly
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
Guilty Pleasures
- George R.R. Martin
- Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels
- Steven Pinker
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