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Zak

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Shawn Micallef: The trouble with brunch (2014)

Benjamin Lorr: The Secret Life of Groceries (2020, Avery, Avery Publishing Group)

2026 Reading Goal

25% complete! Zak has read 3 of 12 books.

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Zak finished reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson: The Way of Kings (2010, Tor)

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of …

Zak wants to read Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova

Genoveva Dimova: Foul Days (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Zak wants to read What We Build with Power by David Delmar Sentíes

David Delmar Sentíes: What We Build with Power (2023, Beacon Press)

What We Build with Power by David Delmar Sentíes

Zak wants to read The death and life of American labor by Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz: The death and life of American labor (2014, Verso)

The death and life of American labor by Stanley Aronowitz

"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime …

Zak wants to read Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Laozi

Laozi: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (2019)

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Laozi

No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le …

Zak wants to read Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk (2019, Text Publishing Company)

Zak started reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of …

Zak wants to read Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

Emma Mieko Candon: Archive Undying (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the …

Zak wants to read Agonistic Assemblies by Markus Miessen

Markus Miessen: Agonistic Assemblies (2023, Sternberg Press)

Agonistic Assemblies by Markus Miessen

A call for a revised form of spatial politics.

This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the …

Zak wants to read Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty

Michael Batty: Inventing Future Cities (Hardcover, The MIT Press)

Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty

Zak wants to read On Community by Casey Plett

Casey Plett: On Community (Paperback, 2023, Biblioasis)

On Community by Casey Plett

We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? …

Zak finished reading The Employees by Olga Ravn

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

The Employees by Olga Ravn

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …

Zak reviewed The Employees by Olga Ravn

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

Beautiful and Intractible

4 stars

I feel as though once I've gone through more therapy I'll understand better what this book is an allegory for. For now, it's an unbound allegory. I picked up this book expecting a space opera and got something much more akin to poetry. I don't despise the book for that. In fact, I have a kind of fondness for it. But I think I will one day have to revisit it and be more prepared for poetry when I do.