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Here are some books I finished in 2023, whether on ebook or audiobook, that made an impact with me.
The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz. I am far, far from the first person to mention that this book is a transformatively hopeful book about the future, about labor organizing, about reaching out to people completely different from us, about uniting to make the world better for all. I just want to mention here that in addition to all of that, The Terraformers is a compulsively EASY book to read. I know that, as I struggle with health things, brain fog, and the attention economy, "easy to read" becomes an increasingly dominant criteria for me.
Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. This is a book that sees the world in a way so different from me in all the details and organization, yet shares my values in fundamental ways. It is also very easy to read. I loved it.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, also by Becky Chambers. I, too, yearn for a future on the other side of the environmental and political disasters I am currently living in. I, too, yearn for a way of building human communities that care for all life, that steward existence and nurture each other. That's this.
How to Keep House While Drowning, by K.C. Davis. I follow K.C. on TikTok. She is very much the person she represents in this non-fiction book about the maintenance work of everyday life. Chaotic, always struggling a little bit, but accepting that she must work with the systems that work for HER, regardless of cultural and social musts and shoulds. I recommend this and The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning as companion reads.
I read a handful of other books, and re-read a bunch more. These, these are the ones that stuck with me.
Here are some books I finished in 2023, whether on ebook or audiobook, that made an impact with me.
The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz. I am far, far from the first person to mention that this book is a transformatively hopeful book about the future, about labor organizing, about reaching out to people completely different from us, about uniting to make the world better for all. I just want to mention here that in addition to all of that, The Terraformers is a compulsively EASY book to read. I know that, as I struggle with health things, brain fog, and the attention economy, "easy to read" becomes an increasingly dominant criteria for me.
Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. This is a book that sees the world in a way so different from me in all the details and organization, yet shares my values in fundamental ways. It is also very easy to read. I loved it.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, also by Becky Chambers. I, too, yearn for a future on the other side of the environmental and political disasters I am currently living in. I, too, yearn for a way of building human communities that care for all life, that steward existence and nurture each other. That's this.
How to Keep House While Drowning, by K.C. Davis. I follow K.C. on TikTok. She is very much the person she represents in this non-fiction book about the maintenance work of everyday life. Chaotic, always struggling a little bit, but accepting that she must work with the systems that work for HER, regardless of cultural and social musts and shoulds. I recommend this and The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning as companion reads.
I read a handful of other books, and re-read a bunch more. These, these are the ones that stuck with me.
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