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Martin Lorenz: Flexible Visual Systems (EBook, 2021, Antenne Books Limited)
Carsten Jensen: We, the Drowned (2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 (Paperback, 2000, Roc)

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Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West: When We Cease to Understand the World (Paperback, 2021, New York Review Books)
Arthur C. Clarke: 2010 (1982, Phantasia Press)
Alina Wheeler, Rob Meyerson: Designing brand identity (2024, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

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Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 (1968)
David Airey: Logo Design Love
Ia Genberg, Kira Josefsson: The Details (Hardcover, 2022, HarperVia)

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finished reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko, Fumiko: The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman (1991, M.E. Sharpe)

The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by  (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite …

started reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko, Fumiko: The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman (1991, M.E. Sharpe)

The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by  (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite …

reviewed Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel (EBook, 2022, Harper Voyager)

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …

fun anti-colonial fantasy-lite

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reviewed My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh: My year of rest and relaxation (2018)

Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young …

sleepy

Moshfegh is a reliably good writer, this was the only one of her books I've read that I wasnt extremely upset by, ha. Excellent bedtime read because its mostly about sleeping and it made me very sleepy.

reviewed The Employees by Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn: The Employees (Paperback, 2020, Lolli Editions)

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and …

a vibey time in corp. space

I liked the idea of this book a bit more than actually reading it–still, it was extremely strange and beautiful, and was nice to read while digesting some grief/death related feelings. Would recommend reading a synopsis beforehand.