About to start Lanark by Alasdair Gray this morning. My partner gave me a copy when I was in rehab, and didn’t get to it then on account of doing hot girl rehab shit. Anyone read it?

That Sapolsky book is a lot of fun.

Working my way through “Blindsight” by Peter Watts. Fun little book about First Contact in an era when mankind’s alienation from itself has reached a singularity-esque extreme.

I’ve been rereading Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen for like 2 months now. Almost done, it’s been dragging and I’m avoiding it because he keeps showing his anti-communist and turning me off. I’m on the last two chapters now which are more meta than history, but that just made it worse because occasionally he’ll flat-out praise capitalism.🤢 It’s still a good intro to demythologizing US History, but I really wanna just read something else. I just hate leaving books unread, even if I’ve read them before. I’ve got a bunch of other interesting books to read like Perelman’s Invention of Capitalism,Tottle’s Fraud, Famine, and Fascism, and Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but I think I might just pick up some paranormal romance slop as a palate cleanser first. I need to get myself back into wanting to read.

Fiction: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Also fiction: The Prince by Nikocado Machiavado

I’m being funny but The Prince is truly fucking boring, I don’t think I will be finishing it. I only picked it up bc I found it in a thrift store for next to nothing and got curious. Heart of Darkness is good though.

After this I will probably read an actual instructions book on gardening (Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening), as the winter is soon over and I finally have a garden of my own.