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brithistorian) wrote2025-07-29 08:56 am
I created this post on 2 Dec. 2024, when I decided to start keeping a books-read log as part of my Dreamwidth journal. Each month will get a new post, to be updated as the month progresses, and links to the monthly logs will be kept in this post, which will be both stuck to the top of my journal and linked from my profile.
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-29 08:54 amcornerofmadness) wrote2025-07-28 09:24 pm
sanguinity) wrote2025-07-28 04:44 pmzwei_hexen has graciously agreed to host us in August! (Thank you, sylvanwitch and ysilme!)brithistorian has been having writing pomegaverse these last couple of days, I ditched my other projects and started on my Keep Fandom Weird bingo card. Someone's terrible horrible no good very bad day just got even worse. :-DDDDDchina_shop, sanguinitybadlyknitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, redbird) wrote2025-07-28 05:13 pmsylvanwitch) wrote2025-07-28 02:47 pmjames_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-28 02:02 pm
badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-28 06:37 pm
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fan_flashworks, using Challenge 140: Gift.badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-28 06:29 pm badly_knittedthreesentenceficathon.james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-28 12:02 pm
brithistorian) wrote2025-07-28 10:24 amI just finished my second book for the reading challenge: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, which is both "a history of a resistance movement" and "a history that's been sitting on your shelf for too long" (my mother-in-law bought it for me for Christmas about 10 years ago). Having already read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States, a lot of this a lot of this material was already familiar to me, but Brown's choice of events to focus on meant that I still ended up learning new things from this book.
While I admit to not knowing enough about the subject to recognize any faults in Brown's research, I did find one aspect the writing of the book that displeased me: It seemed that as the book progressed, moving closer to the present day, the coverage of material accelerated, as if Brown was starting with a preset limited page count and, having written the first part of the book, was scrambling to include all the material he wanted to before reaching that page limit. The result of this is that the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee, which I would have expected to be fairly significant parts of the book, are covered in 12 pages immediately before the book ends.
And when I say the book "ends," I am choosing that word very deliberately. The book just stops at the end of the day of the Wounded Knee Massacre, when the wounded survivors were carried into the church at the Episcopal mission at the Pine Ridge Agency. There is no conclusion, no examination of the reactions to the massacre, nothing. If you removed the table of contents and the back matter, which make it clear that this is the end of the book, and had a group of students read it, they would come back asking you for the rest of the book.
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-07-28 09:36 amWhich 2007 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
9 (64.3%)
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
3 (21.4%)
Gradisil by Adam Roberts
3 (21.4%)
Hav by Jan Morris
7 (50.0%)
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
0 (0.0%)
Streaking by Brian Stableford
0 (0.0%)
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the_siobhan) wrote2025-07-28 01:04 amcornerofmadness) wrote2025-07-27 09:21 pm shadaras) wrote2025-07-27 08:13 pmbattleshipex is, as ever, an experience. xD my team hit the victory condition this afternoon after blazing through the boards and bosses in a frankly terrifying way. I do not think we expected to go this fast. I do not think anyone expected a team to go this fast! The mods kept going UH SLOW DOWN WE AREN'T READY. hafnia has begun posting the novel that ate us to ao3, and I am delighted that other people can start reading the thing that we've been discussing incessantly for two months. xD This has been our mutual hyperfocus! It is the product of us gleefully following our shared ids and going "what if—" and also tormenting our blorbos. <3sanguinity) wrote2025-07-27 05:56 pmchina_shop, sanguinitybadlyknitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, glinda, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilmeredbird) wrote2025-07-27 04:02 pm