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I'd like to recommend that you do not read these books:
— Betty Zane
— Spirit of the Border
— The Last Trail
Written over a hundred years about the early American frontier in 1780s Ohio, they contain unpleasant stereotypes about native peoples and lots of other problematic content.
But for those who disregard my recommendation against them: you may find these to be thrilling stories of courage, romance, and pioneering adventure. Or you may find them to dry, narrow, and bland.
Jan 29, 2025
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19th-century America has captivated me in the last couple of years. Most recently I read, Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne. It’s about the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. It also tells the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches as a nine-year-old girl, and her mixed-blood son Quannah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.Also just finished, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. By Stephen Ambrose.
May 30, 2023
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- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
- Facing the Music by Larry Brown
- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
- Airships by Barry Hannah
- Big World by Mary Miller
- The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake by Breece DJ Pancake
- Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan (kinda stories)
- Poachers by Tom Franklin
- The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure by Jack Pendarvis
These are essays but How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon.
I'm sure I'm missing a few.
Feb 23, 2024
This is actually just a list of my favourite reads so if you do check them out maybe I'll fall in love with you...
-The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
-At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
-Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
-This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
-Foster by Claire Keegan
-Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
-Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Everything Salley Rooney and George Orwell :P
Jan 23, 2024
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
3d ago
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one of my 2025 habit goals
alone or with others, it is the best
Jan 21, 2025