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conulyThis is factually untrue - I just finished a new book yesterday - but it does feel that way.
Recommend something to me! Especially nonfiction - I really don't read much of that, so I can promise that I'll never have read whatever you recommend! (Whereas if you recommend anything kidlit or YA there's better than even odds that I've read it.)
Later I'll post up my own list of random recommendations for everybody, but right now I really must dash.
Recommend something to me! Especially nonfiction - I really don't read much of that, so I can promise that I'll never have read whatever you recommend! (Whereas if you recommend anything kidlit or YA there's better than even odds that I've read it.)
Later I'll post up my own list of random recommendations for everybody, but right now I really must dash.
Nonfic Recs
Date: 2017-08-17 07:27 pm (UTC)David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years is available online for free, although not in the most readable format.
James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns are both wonderful US history books.
Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers is about transformative fandom; it's one of the earliest (and still one of the few) academic looks at the fanfic world.
Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing covers many of the common excuse for making sure young women don't decide "author" is the career for them.
John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling expands on the concepts in his article, The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher.
Lewis Hyde's The Gift (which is currently subtitled "reativity and the Artist in the Modern World" but when I first read it, it was "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property") is a terrific exploration of the cultural side of economic norms.
Paul Williams (not that Paul Williams) Das Energi is a 70's "self-help"-ish philosophy/hippie-ish-thoughts book in the same genre as Be Here Now, whatever that is; there's a handful of segments of this that are still ringing in my head years after I first read them.
Re: Nonfic Recs
Date: 2017-08-18 05:30 am (UTC)Did you ever read her LJ? I miss her, still. We lost her entirely too soon.
Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing covers many of the common excuse for making sure young women don't decide "author" is the career for them.
How odd. I would've thought it's a very common career for young women - but then, that might be an artifact of the genres I mostly read.
Re: Nonfic Recs
Date: 2017-08-18 05:45 am (UTC)Russ's book isn't so much, "convince women not to write" as "here's the tricks society uses to claim that anything a woman writes is irrelevant" (with the unspoken corollary of, "and therefore not worth being paid as much as men's writing.")
Re: Nonfic Recs
Date: 2017-08-18 06:01 am (UTC)She would have had so much to say.
Russ's book isn't so much, "convince women not to write" as "here's the tricks society uses to claim that anything a woman writes is irrelevant" (with the unspoken corollary of, "and therefore not worth being paid as much as men's writing.")
Gotcha.
Re: Nonfic Recs
Date: 2017-08-19 02:55 am (UTC)Cosigned.