mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in warmer times, climate paranoia
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Olive, Rose, Laurel, Ivy, Hazel, Rowan. Six teenagers, connected in ways they could never have imagined.
Olive, Rose, Laurel, Ivy, Hazel, Rowan. Six teenagers, connected in ways they could never have …
Mags says this development used to be trees. Oak Road. They named it for the trees they felled to build it and now nobody lives here except rats.
— Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (53%)
I lived in such a development for a while. On a hillside where butterfly habitat was flattened, the streets were named to mock them. Mission Blue, Swallowtail, Callippe.
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was …
In the same way that some travellers are drawn to collecting postcards, coins, stamps or beer bottles from other countries, I am obsessed with fast-food outlets, particularly KFC and McDonald's, which always feature appropriated versions of classic items — like India's Chicken Maharaja Mac, and France's Le Croque McDo.
— Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh (15%)
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But …
A moving record of America’s great earthquake and fire: San Francisco, April 18, 1906
Remarkable black-and-white photographs of structures reduced to rubble by the temblor and subsequent fire. As a map geek, I would have liked more maps, but the endpapers are large maps of the shaken and burned area.
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and …
This bloke spent the first chapter arguing that the kids in the streets didn't matter, it was really old guys in boardrooms that effected change. I admit to shutting the book before giving him the chance to convince me.
…[I]n Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about …
My library loan expired just as Bono was sitting in No 10 marvelling at the important people he knew and the import of the history he was witnessing. U2 have always been a cherished band for me. I returned the book before that could change.
"A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in …
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But …
When a company’s workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies …
Hmm, same author has a book titled 'How to Protect Bookstores and Why', and I can't sort out whether it's largely the same book with a new cover.
Olive, Rose, Laurel, Ivy, Hazel, Rowan. Six teenagers, connected in ways they could never have imagined.
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a memoir by the French aristocrat …
A very good overview of Boeing's history particularly after its merger with McDonnell Douglas, which the author argues was a turning point from an engineering worldview to one of bean-counting. It chronicles the spinoff of engineering functions and the way the American FAA allowed Boeing to be its own regulator and inspector. It was written in the wake of the twin 737 Max tragedies, which are a primary focus, but the seeds are sown for all the bits falling out of the sky that we've seen of late.
