false 188 1321 1148 true 5625860 read 5 true 248678 currently-reading 168 true 248677 to-read 470 false 252427 literature 424 false 252426 poetry-and-poetics 141 false 252429 philosophy 119 false 262211 cultural-studies-and-social-critics 87 false 252428 comics 71 false 252431 criticism 68 false 252430 religion 49 false 252432 art 43 false 258105 film 43 false 252435 history 32 false 332395 psychology 29 false 264471 music 23 false 807578 pedagogy 11 false 482582 apocalypse 9 false 528376 musil 9 false 332424 science 7 false 252425 books-to-avoid 7 false 340945 reference 5 false 2455947 peak-oil 4 false 4372766 writing-for-change 2 false 2302473 language 1 false 4539744 essays-for-courses 1 false 4266072 course-proposal 0 false 4312365 rereading http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72754000 to: Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.) by Peter Singer
bookshelves: cultural-studies-and-social-critics, philosophy
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48647816 to: The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback) by Robert Musil
bookshelves: literature, musil
Having watched over the weekend Schlondorff's film of Young Torless (1966), I reread the (short) novel in a few sittings--an amazing, albeit dark & anxious, experience. The film, too, is good, though because we have no narrator, Musil's spiritual & intellectual concerns are less intact. And Torless, in the film, is distanced a bit further from Basini & implicated less. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73636977 Summertime: Scenes from a provincial life III (Hardcover) by J.M. Coetzee
bookshelves: literature, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753875 to: The Complete Peanuts: 1973-1974 (12) by Charles M. Schulz
bookshelves: comics
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72754106 Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Hardcover) by Chris Hedges
bookshelves: cultural-studies-and-social-critics, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753950 The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback) by H.L. Mencken
bookshelves: currently-reading, philosophy
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753796 Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Hardcover) by Peter Maass
bookshelves: cultural-studies-and-social-critics, currently-reading, peak-oil
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753761 The Shadow of Sirius (Paperback) by W.S. Merwin
bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry-and-poetics
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72753680 to: Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder (Paperback) by Paul T. Mason
bookshelves: psychology
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66739684 to: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (Paperback) by Karen Armstrong
bookshelves: religion
A wonderful memoir, ultimately about being fully human and learning compassion. Armstrong, however, professes no perfection--and even at her most didactic, her writing is always deliciously steeped in the questioning, searching qualities of her personality (a personality that informs the best of her scholarly work, such as A History of God). ]]>