Thread by @writerbxtch, Book thread to hold me accountable (and also pat myself on the [...]

Book thread to hold me accountable (and also pat myself on the back for reading lol)

Nonfiction read about how data gathering and automation of certain public services works to marginalize and oppress poor people. Could have been more concise but it wasn't overlong. Would recommend to anyone interested in how data science interacts w public policy.

A long, difficult, important, worthwhile, moving, funny, exhausting read. Each and every story is engrossing and edifying. The relevance of this book to our current historical moment can't be exaggerated. Utterly deserving of the Nobel Prize.

This book told a great story and taught me about USSR/Russia, China, tigers, subsistence living, perestroika, hunting... but it needed a stronger editor. 300 pages was too long for a story about 1 tiger in a remote village. Even with all the (great) background research.

Gillian Flynn is probably my favorite fiction author atm. I can't get enough of the sick, disturbed, complicated women she writes about. It's so refreshing to see complicated, dark female protagonists. This was better than Sharp Objects but Gone Girl is still my forever fave.

This one took months lol. Incredibly researched and thorough, this book has a wealth of information on the Kim dynasty. I had to pinch my nose and hold my breath through some of the political theory, b/c this author is American and presumes as given the things you'd expect.

I didn't realize how little I knew about the Boston Marathon, despite being in New England at the time (and having a family member actually present). Very sensitive, thoughtful, and thoroughly reported. I'm a huge fan of @mashagessen's work.

Ugh, this book is 300+ pages of tawdry, sordid, delicious MESS and I read it in like two days. @CountSnarkula, did you ever get around to reading this? It's sooooo dishy and satisfying lol

[audiobook] Half the book was focused on the impact of sea level rise (from rising global temps) on infrastructure around the world. The other half of the book is about the politics of climate change: who is harmed? who perpetuates harm? who gets help? Strongly recommend.

Towards the end of this book, the author mentions that the world would remember Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony long after it would remember why. Stacy Schiff centers Cleopatra in her own legend, and it makes for an engaging and relatable nonfiction read.

Finished this audiobook today. If you have been seeking larger context for our current historical moment as a country, this book is the one to read. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz READS the settler colonialist project that is the USA for FILTH. 10/10 will radicalize.

Finished this while camping. Unpretentious and poetic like all of Zora's writing, the narrative is powerful and haunting. Cudjo Lewis's retelling of being captured and sold and forced to suffer incalculable pain and loss in a foreign, hostile land sticks. A primary text.

Another NECESSARY read. The US government legislated sanctioned, promoted, demanded, and supported unconstitutional segregation and economic suppression of AfAms in the 20th century, and this accessible and unsparing book bluntly and concisely unspools the history.

Viktor Frankl was a prisoner-doctor in the concentration camps during WWII. My former boss gave me this book my first week on the job and, in retrospect, that was a terrible sign. Very compelling and depressing read about camp life and psychological hygiene.

I want this thread to evolve into a collection of short (or long!) book review threads on what I'm reading. It's a work in progress, but I'm starting here: https://twitter.com/writerbxtch/status/1290034625209708544

https://twitter.com/writerbxtch/status/1290034625209708544

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