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Finished reading: The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig 📚
The Sea Runners a stupefyingly relentless account of four indentured servants escaping from a Russian trading post in what is today Sitka, Alaska. In their harrowing journey by canoe (in winter) through a brutal stretch of Pacific coastline down to Astoria, Oregon the yearning for human freedom constantly confronts an absurd and often hostile universe, with mounting dread. Like Dostoevsy trying to write a Coen Brothers movie. With prose so sharp that it can feel brittle, Doig carves narratives that feel simultaneously intimate and epic. Not for the feint of heart, but boy can Doig paint a picture.
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Finished reading: Slow Down by Kohei Saito 📚
I liked his rationale for degrowth and why it is not just another word for “austerity,” and I even followed his rehabilitation of the Marx’s ecological bona fides as far as that goes; but I wanted more detail about how it might be achieved.
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New book added to bookshelves.dev
I added this book to my Books I have enjoyed in 2022 shelf today: The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series) by Helen DeWitt 📚. I had almost as much fun writing this review as reading the book.
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