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Einar

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Nordmann bosatt i Sverige. Leser norsk, svensk och engelsk. Liker både faglitteratur og skjønnlitteratur. Historie og sci-fi. Skriver på det språk jeg leser på.

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Patrick Radden Keefe, Matthew Blaney: Say Nothing (AudiobookFormat, 2019, Random House Audio) 5 stars

Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known …

Som alle som følge mæ på mastodon kanskje har fått med sæ e æ over mæ av begeistring av den her boka, og det e en bok æ e utrolig glad for at æ hørte som lydbok, fordi opplesinga til Matt Blaney levendegjorde historien på en måte som aldri i verden hadde skjedd om æ leste den sjøl. Språket, tonefallet, variasjonen i uttale når det blei sitert fra folk. Min eneste innvending e at i den siste tredjedelen, omtrent, va det en del rare småpauser i lesinga, som burde vært redigert bort for bedre flyt. Og den eneste ulempen med å høre lydboka e at det tydeligvis e et omfattanes fotnoteverk i boka, som æ dermed gikk helt glipp av. Det va, ifølge etterordet, brukt for å nyansere historien der Radden Keefe for narrativet sin del holdt sæ til én mulig forklaring, så det kan hende æ plukke opp boka …

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Devon Price: Unmasking Autism (Hardcover, 2022, Harmony Books) 5 stars

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …

Helpful Book

5 stars

It was a very helpful read. To learn more about autism I started to read books and this one helped me immensely. It focuses on how autistic people mask and why they mask their autistic traits. Also, it explains why anyone who is not a "white, rich boy" has a hard time to get an official diagnosis even today. Also it comes with lots of helpful, handy exercises to put off the masks one has been wearing. Some parts of the book are a bit lot focused on the situation in the US - you may want to find data or statistics about your country-, yet, that's understandable given the author origin.

David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity 3 stars

Så forskjellige er vi ikke.

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Dette var en interessant bok. Den var overraskende lettlest uten at jeg fant sitatvennlige avsnitt på annenhver side. Bokens store prosjekt er å skisse på en fortelling av vår fortid som skiller seg fra den vanlige eurosentriske fortellinga der man blikket man ser fortiden med er farget av det kapitalistiske samfunnet vi lever i og hva som er politisk mulig nå — og dermed gi en annen fortelling av hvem vi er (gjetter jeg).

Jeg har alt for lite bakgrunn i feltet til å bedømme om argumentene som legges fram er godt underbygde eller ikke. Det er vanskelig når man skriver om en tid som ligger så langt tilbake at man ikke har tilgang til hvordan de som levde da så på seg selv, man kan bare anta. De påpeker flere steder at andre forskere har tolket funn utifra sin egen samtid, sikkert med fare for å snuble i samme …

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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity 3 stars

Frustrating at best

2 stars

I usually find Graeber's work a bit annoying as I agree with the conclusions, but I find his arguments for how to get there lacking. I had high hopes for this book as the premise was interesting. Unfortunately, this book was even more frustrating that his others. I enjoyed the critique of eurocentric views on civilization, and I liked that the book argues against a narrative of progress through feudal lords and then capitalism.

However, a main argument in the book is against the idea that large population governance is not inherently oppressive. I wholly reject this idea. The arguments Graeber and Wengrow make are hundreds of pages long and never get beyond "well there is no evidence of a monarchy so they must have had people's assemblies and been democratic." The city, they infer, is therefore a structure we can have without oppressive relations. There is then much advocating …

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finished reading Ask Cassandra by Kate Healey (Olympus Inc., #4)

Kate Healey: Ask Cassandra (EBook, 2024, Kate Healey) No rating

Cassie Troiades is a freelance archivist, but her secret side gig as a popular advice …

Æ lå langtflat i senga i tre døgn og hosta på mæ gangsperre i magemusklan, og innimellom all hostinga leste æ de fire første romanan (pluss kortromanen) i Olympus Inc-serien til Kate Healey (pseudonymet til Karen Healey). Som titlan kanskje ymte frampå om e dem variasjoner over gresk mytologi, men man treng ikke egentlig kjenne til nokka særlig av det for å ha glede av bøkern som sådan.

Men om man har bittelitt kjennskap til det, og kanskje også en svakhet for historier som foregår i tidsskrift-settinger (Olympus Inc e utgiver av ørten store magasiner, kor hovedmagasinet e Luxe, som nok kan forveksles med Vogue), så e det her kjempefornøyelig lesestoff. Det va minst en scene i hver bok kor æ måtte strigråte litt, og opptil flere steder kor æ fniste høyt.

Den fjerde boka (æ orka ikke skrive nokka om hver enkelt bok, siden æ slukte alle på rad) …

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I usually like John's books, but for some reason this one didn't vibe with me. Maybe because the whole things feels… too easy? You know how it will end, there is no real danger for the clueless protagonist. Every character seems either too smug or too dumb. Human lives are extremely cheap, and there are no real consequences for their deaths. It's not a bad book, but maybe I need more "grounded" stories at the moment (which is a bit weird as the previous book I read was Stross' "Empire Games", a book about a multi-dimensional cold war escalation, but still it felt more "real").

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Terry Pratchett, Andy Serkis, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy (Narrator): Small Gods (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Transworld) 5 stars

Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion and their …

Belief was the food of the gods. But they also needed a shape. Gods became what people believed they ought to be. So the Goddess of Wisdom carried a penguin. It could have happened to any god. It should have been an owl. Everyone knew that. But one bad sculptor who had only ever had an owl described to him makes a mess of a statue, belief steps in, next thing you know the Goddess of Wisdom is lumbered with a bird that wears evening dress the whole time and smells of fish. You gave a god its shape, like a jelly fills a mold. Gods often became your father, said Abraxas the Agnostic. Gods became a big beard in the sky, because when you were three years old that was your father. Of course Abraxas survived . . . This thought arrived sharp and cold, out of the part of his own mind that Brutha could still call his own. Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life not believing, spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief.

Small Gods by , , , and 1 other (Discworld, #13)

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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity 3 stars

Currently reading Dawn of Everything. I reflect on how this work effectively serves to decolonize our understanding of history by filling in the Blancs left by historians focused primarily on, and perhaps blinded by, imperial displays of grandeur.

The book paints a broad picture with broad strokes and I understand that there are several relevant critiques. Something I would hope the authors would (have had) embraced since it's true value lies in what thoughts and conversations, and mayhaps social experimentation, such a work inspires.

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Jordan Magnuson: Game Poems (2023, Amherst College Press) No rating

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From the publisher: Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being …

“Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost,” says Mary Oliver. I would suggest that we need game poems in the world for the same reason that we need poetry in general: because we are cold, and we need videogames that are fires.

We need videogames born of waiting, silence, and deep listening. We need videogames that speak the language of our contemporary lives, yet are able to hold themselves above our lives’ monstrous current. We need videogames that are able to see beyond our latest obsessions and fetishes to the truths that connect us across time and space. We need videogames about God and intractable mystery. We need videogames that call out oppression and injustice in all their myriad forms. We need videogames that remind us of what it means to be human in the face of the posthuman and the inhuman. And we need videogames that remind us that we still have the capacity to love, and the capacity to forgive.

In short, we need videogames that embody “the subtlety, elegance, and hunger of the human spirit,” as Mark Strand and Eavan Boland write. We need videogames that, in the words of Dylan Thomas, are able to make our “toenails twinkle.”

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Terry Pratchett, Andy Serkis, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy (Narrator): Small Gods (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Transworld) 5 stars

Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion and their …

Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Small Gods by , , , and 1 other (Discworld, #13)