Ongoing posts about what we're reading and encouraging others to read it and discuss
Thanks so much for posting this again. I’ve been checked out due to a massive work project that I completed yesterday and just have another day of fallout until I can finally be a human again. It has been 3 weeks of a sprint at work.
I started Player of Games and its great. I haven’t read a culture book in a long time.
Thanks for the recommendation on the Giraud, that one looks interesting. I hope to post about it soon!
As for me, I'm working on "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton. i'm having a slow time getting into it, but i've heard it's good. likely won't get it finished in the next week as tomorrow i'm off to a zen retreat for a week, but it'll be waiting for me when I get back.
i've got a couple things specifically relating to veganism on order from my local library: "Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory" by Eva Haifa Giraud, and "The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror" by Laura Wright.
i'm no academic but i am a nerd, and am hoping that these so-called foundational texts in vegan studies will help me have a better theoretical and actionable framework within which to work. speaking of which, i also have on order "Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism" by Mark Hawthorne. this one i have purchased so that i can have it as a reference for actual praxis.
have any of you read any of these and have any thoughts, or recommendations?