I love science fiction, but I’ve been branching out more into fantasy, mystery, and even some romance. I love exploring unfamiliar genres.
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93% complete! Daniel Strokis has read 14 of 15 books.
This was harder to get through than I thought it would be, but not because of the writing. It was just that I was constantly reminded that we're living under a mad king by the news, and that made it harder to pick up a book about the horrors of fascism.
Thankfully, the book ends on a hopeful note about the fall of authoritarian regimes and resistance to them.
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
[CBP] agents have echoed Nazi camp procedures in telling parents that their children are being taken away to have a “bath”, then imprisoning or deporting the parents. The unwashed children may be placed in detention centers. Or they might be assigned to Evangelical Christian adoption agencies like Bethany Child Services, a company long supported by Trump education secretary Betsy Devo’s family.
— Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Page 188)
If this is the monstrosity of the first administration, I can’t imagine what’s happening now under the current regime.
A study by political scientists showed a 226 percent increase in hate crimes in counties that hosted a Trump rally in 2016.
— Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Page 187)
Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate …
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea …
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant …
I picked up this book because it was supposedly a favorite of HP Lovecraft, and I like a lot of those stories. It was more than a little hard to get through some sections because of the unnecessary amount of details about every single thing in the story. To quote Lisa Dumond, “To say that the author dwells on minutae is understatement akin to his overstatement.”
I found a very beat up copy of this book in a little free library. I’m very glad I took a chance on it, because there are some real gems in this book. Ursula K. Le Guin has has a very interesting short story, and “Burger Creature“ is quite funny.
