Book Cover Meme! 9/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews: just covers.



Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

Linkage

+ Dirt In a Cog: Small Ways to Resist Fascism That Make a Big Difference from my friends at Invisible Histories.

+ Conspiracy a video essay by ContraPoints/Natlie Wynn.

+ Interviews with civil servants. I think Defector is going to continue to expand this series.

+ The Tyranny of Public Opinion by Peter Shamshiri. "The battle over trans rights shows that Democrats have forgotten the fundamentals of politics." [This is trans-friendly--it's basically an argument for not throwing trans people under the bus, though this is more for realpolitik reasons than for moral ones. While the moral ones are of much greater concern to me, I do think the real realpolitik reasons matter too.]

+ Baby Talk by Moira Donegan. "On pro-natalism and motherhood after Dobbs."

+ University endowments can’t replace federal funding from Marketplace.

+ The Child Psychologist Who Loved Compliance by David Ferrier. “It worked for growing very unhealthy, very compliant people."

+ The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA by Inae Oh.

+ The Right's Brave New World 'Vibe Shift': Never Having To Say You're Sorry For Saying The R-Word by Robyn Pennacchia. "They think they are replicating what the Left did with regard to what they understand as “woke.” They think we just made up new rules for everyone to follow in order to trip them up and get them in trouble for no reason — sort of like how old money people made up weird new etiquette rules (like a raised pinky while drinking tea) in order to trip up the nouveau riche during the Gilded Age."

+ Higher Ed Under Attack from On the Nose podcast (Jewish Currents). Conversation with Columbia professor Nadia Abu El-Haj.

+ Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn by Emanuel Maiberg.

+ Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult from Behind the Bastards. [Okay, so this is a laugh-y podcast, so I can understand if this is not the place you want to get information about the Harry Potter rationality Zizian murders. BUT. Robert did something that I don't think many have--he actually read all of Ziz's blogposts and the blogposts of some of the people around her, and while I don't think he's an actual fandom person, he seems to be fandom-adjacent enough to actually understand the fannish aspects of what's going on. So imo, the tone is worth dealing with in order to get even more information about this whole situation. If you don't like to listen to podcasts, you can also find transcripts, starting here for the first episode though it's computer-generated so it doesn't read super easily imo.]

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There's a meme going around Tumblr where you make a list of your 100 favorite movies on this site, and then people can see how many of them they've seen.

Being me, I also made ones for books and tv, too.

So if you're so inclined, you can see how many of my favorite tv shows and movies you've seen and how many of my favorite books you have read.

And even if no one is so inclined, it was still fun to make. Like I said over there, I am a librarian. Of course my idea of a good Friday night is making lists.