Reading for the New Year

 

I think for the new year, I'll start keeping track of what I read--tagged with brief reviews. This is an important exercise, I think, as it also, to a degree, captures my thoughts and concerns about life. Which isn't to say I can't read fluffy stuff--I can and do--but hopefully it's balanced out by reads of substance.

Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane, John Amato and David Neiwert. (This book, published a year ago, is frighteningly prescient. It shows how what was once a fringe ideology has become the mainstream, and how the entire country has suffered because of it. There's an entire chapter devoted to Fox News which puts the lie to the canard, "The other side does it too." No, they don't.)

The Mage in Black, Jaye Wells. (I don't agree with the central premise of this series--vampires are born, not made, and can interbreed with other "dark races"--for obvious reasons; immortal beings, by definition, have to be sterile, or nearly so, or they'll overpopulate the planet! Sort of like immortal, ever-dividing cancer cells, heh heh. At any rate, if you can suspend your disbelief that far, this isn't a bad story.)

Reading for the New Year

 

I think for the new year, I'll start keeping track of what I read--tagged with brief reviews. This is an important exercise, I think, as it also, to a degree, captures my thoughts and concerns about life. Which isn't to say I can't read fluffy stuff--I can and do--but hopefully it's balanced out by reads of substance.

Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane, John Amato and David Neiwert. (This book, published a year ago, is frighteningly prescient. It shows how what was once a fringe ideology has become the mainstream, and how the entire country has suffered because of it. There's an entire chapter devoted to Fox News which puts the lie to the canard, "The other side does it too." No, they don't.)

The Mage in Black, Jaye Wells. (I don't agree with the central premise of this series--vampires are born, not made, and can interbreed with other "dark races"--for obvious reasons; immortal beings, by definition, have to be sterile, or nearly so, or they'll overpopulate the planet! Sort of like immortal, ever-dividing cancer cells, heh heh. At any rate, if you can suspend your disbelief that far, this isn't a bad story.)