Book Reading

30 Oct 2021 - 21 Apr 2025
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    • 2021

      • Finally finished Overstory that was pretty good!
      • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore and O'Neill (graphic novel)
      • Agent Running in the Field, Le Carré (26-jan-2021)
      • The Killer Inside Me, Thompson, 19-feb, reread
      • Gideon the Ninth, 3-apr
        • gotta admit kind of a trip, although not really my thing
      • R. Crumb's illustrated Book of Genesis, June 7th, 2021
      • In the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm July 31st, 2021
        • Man this just makes psychoanalysis seem like the world's most broken field. Well written and keenly observed as you would expect.
        • The Freud-Fliess letters reveal the immense difficulty with which Freud negotiated his revolution from without to within; they document the resistance that accompanied each of his steps away from the familiar terrain of so-called objective reality to the uncharted wilderness of psychic reality. This resistance was never completely overcome by Freud—as it is never overcome by anyone...The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the examined life is impossible to live for more than a few moments at a time. To fully accept the idea of unconscious motivation is to cease to be human. (p29)
      • [surely there were some in this gap?]
        • Hm probably was reading lots of psychoanalysis stuff but no complete books
      • All Systems Red (Murderbot), Martha Wells, Dec 28th, 2021
    • 2022

      • Left Hand of Darkness, March 30 or so
      • Mr. Punch (Gaiman, graphic, WS rec) 10 April
      • <surely some stuff in here>
      • How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Gaiman, also graphic, 5 June
      • Throne of Jade (Temeraire, reread), 1 July
      • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, Aug 6th, 2022
      • The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood, Sep 10th, 2022
      • A Study in Emerald, Gaiman (Graphic, based on a short), Sep 10th, 2022
        • Apparently there is a whole subgenre of Cthulu/Sherlock Holmes mashups...
      • Norse Mythology, Gaiman, Sep 26th, 2022
      • The Nightmare Stacks, Stross, Oct 28th, 2022
        • Fun, but meh. Too nerdy, and he's recycling the same ideas
      • When the Angels Left the Old Country Dec 6th, 2022
        • Cute, in the family.