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Tyler Chimera
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Happy husband, dog dad, feline flunky, loony lefty, tired transit technician.
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My June-July reads. #booksky
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi. Debt: The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber.
August 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I'm almost done with Debt: The First 5000 Years, and it had a great quote from the next book on my TBR pile. #booksky
Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think. -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
August 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Just got these in the mail. Having recently read Emergent Strategy, I'm curious to check out Adrienne Maree Brown's fiction. #booksky
Three books: Grievers, Maroons, and Ancestors, my Adrienne Maree Brown
July 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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My latest haul from the bookstore.

My wife and I got to see Susana Morris talk about her biography of Octavia Butler. It was really interesting hearing her insights into Octavia. And she signed our copy!

#booksky
July 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

20/20

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, by Wahinkpe Topa and Darcia Narvaez
July 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Ivy says it's time for pets, not reading. #booksky
Cat peering over the top of the book The Left Hand of Darkness
July 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

19/20

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge
Ancestors, by Adrienne Maree Brown
July 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

18/20

Some explanation on this one: I'm an atheist, just curious what all the fuss is about.

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Holy Bible
July 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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My current reads and my summer stack.
Current reads: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Left Hand of Darkness Summer reading stack: The Books of Earthsea, The Shock Doctrine, Homage to Catalonia, Wild Seed, The Dispossessed, The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Ancestors
July 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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In The Broken Earth trilogy, the characters have internalized a lot of the violent oppression and abuse the world has subjected them to, and struggle with how to survive and resist without resorting to the same evils.
Book spines of The Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin
July 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I liked your blog post. It's interesting how the book shifted your perspective on god.

Makes me think of Octavia Butler. "God is change."

Here are a couple of my older repeat reads:
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien Dune, by Frank Herbert
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#booksky #favoriteauthor
Bookshelf with eleven N. K. Jemisin books.
July 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Currently part way through these three.
July 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I've barely had time to read the last couple weeks. Hoping to catch up a bit on my current reads today.
July 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I'd be at risk of my world and history being altered by a war across time and the multiverse.
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
July 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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😄
July 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I loved Serviceberry! Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss are both on my TBR.
July 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Cool picks.

I'm reading these three.
July 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

17/20

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I'm currently reading these three books. I've been way behind on reading this past month. Life's been crazy. #booksky
July 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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6/6 Some books on my TBR pile about organizing, activism, and resistance. #booksky
We Do This 'til We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba. Be a Revolution, by Ijeoma Oluo. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.
July 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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5/6 Here are a few books I've read recently about organizing, activism, and building community. #booksky
Let This Radicalize You, by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes. Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
July 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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4/6 Here's the full chapter for anyone who's interested. It's really worth a read.
July 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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3/6 Do anything you can, even if it's small.

The more people do nothing, the worse things will get.
Book Excerpt 1 - Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). Book Excerpt 2 - Learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know.
July 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM