#reading queue

[iscahmckrae]

I'm in the middle of reading Becoming Michelle Obama, and according to her on the day she met Barack, seeing him light up a cigarette, she asked him point-blank:

“Why would someone as smart as you do something as dumb as that?”

And suddenly, all I could see was Rory and Jess.

[ronearoundblindly]

This is one of my favourite fics about Curtis arhhhh

And congratulations Ro🌼🌼🌼❣️❣️❣️

Love you 🫶🫶🫶

Thank you for the rec, dearie!!!

[antarcticawrites]

Idea of my queue. Currently reading: Horror Stories by Liz Phair Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland

[burntheupholstery]

Le Guin also makes pretty insightful statements:

“Elusiveness is the essence of fluidity.”

“Denial is an effective weapon in the hands of fear.”

And asking the pertinent questions:

“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?”

I knew she was brilliant but damn, lady; and I’m reading her semi-casual blog. I haven’t even gotten to her published stories yet.

[burntheupholstery]

“Fantastic literature, like all the verbal arts, must satisfy the intellectual as well as the aesthetic faculty.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin, It Doesn’t Have to Be the Way It Is, June 2011

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

Tentative Summer Reading List

Rocket Propulsion Elements, George Sutton & Oscar Biblarz*

Superfuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, Richard Martin*

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes*

Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race, David Scott & Alexei Leonov*

Manned Spacecraft Design Principles, Pasquale Sforza

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway

The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Benoît Mandelbrot

Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down, J. E. Gordon

Unsong, Scott Alexander

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Phillip Tetlock.

My reading pace is all over the place, so it’s hard to say whether this will last me till August or not. In any case, this is where I’ll be starting from.

*Books currently in progress.

[esbisos]

you should read all the bright places by jennifer niven bc it was really good and made me cry... like a lot

I’ve gotten two suggestions and both have made the suggester cry LOL. Thank you thank you thank you! Added to my list 😍

Create my summer reading list - Suggest some books to read!

[esbisos]

they both die at the end by adam silvera is so good and such a tear jerker!! it's one of my favorite young adult books.

Ahh thank you thank you!!! Just added it to my list of books to read for the summer.