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My Body Keeps Your Secrets by

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:01:00 +0000

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My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – on women’s health and trauma | Books | The Guardian

from a reporter on the Maxwell trial who had the quandary breaking the story post-verdict that 1 of the jurors may have withheld childhood sexual abuse on his pre-selection survey.

Noting it's her followup book to "I Choose Elena" I also have a weird juxtaposition just having seen the not completely satisfying Polanski/Seigneur movie "Based on a True Story" on a successful writer who successfully delves into personal struggles but is now dealing with writer's block & depression & a clingy admirer as she takes on her next book.

Though that's not fair, as this *is* based on Osborne-Crowley's own traumatic experience. But the lines of people awaiting autographs who were deeply touched by the movie character's writing, and just reviewing a bunch of self-help habit-changing apps and days of isolating flu I'm touched by all the new social insights and madness and delirious attempts to make sense of our socio-psychological maelstroms on Facebook and in our Covid-mangled real lives.

The Guardian review lays out the quandary for us all - how to take the obviously valuable and defensible new insights, whether these are really "woke" topics or just dialing into age-old personal calamities, tragedies, and difficult struggles - but find a structure for them that actually works, provides a satisfying setting to describe & understand and perhaps find some closure rather than lots of disturbed emotion with little resolution.

Lots of companies did search engines before Google - but Google's results in 1999 suddenly felt right, useful, satisfying, actionable. Perhaps that's the kind of aha/sea change we're waiting for in these current issues - I struggle to find a proper name for them even (and the one comment below on the lack of non-binaryness in a book that name checks non-binary tips off 1 complication of many), but say one worthy of or eliciting a new Simone de Beauvoir.

More positive reviews at Goodreads

The war on your attention -

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:32:41 +0000

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The war on your attention - Jonathan Hari

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-scr...

Reminder when we were young

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:21:00 +0000

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Reminder when we were young
(dagblog & us individually)
Hat-tip - Rootie Har Har Har
http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/what-women-think-about-writing-3898

J.K. Rowling Apologizes For

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:46:37 +0000

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J.K. Rowling Apologizes For Not Making It Clear That Ron Weasley Is The Anti-Semitic Caricature https://t.co/ueyYHjlIh9 pic.twitter.com/8MyMNKkjCg
— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 5, 2022

Laurie Anderson retread above

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:07:00 +0000

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Laurie Anderson retread above the fold (ok, not a book, sue me)

https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/watch-laurie-anderson-norton-lectures-n...

All six parts of Laurie Anderson's Norton Lectures, Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds, are now available to watch again indefinitely. ...You can watch the introduction and all six lectures below via the Center's YouTube channel.

Enjoying some free Aeon

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:59:40 +0000

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Enjoying some free Aeon articles, e.g.:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-happened-to-the-ideal-of-multireligious-arab-modernity…
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-french-bohemian-elite-celebrated-predatory-behaviour

More better booklist?

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 21:11:48 +0000

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More better booklist?

I read almost no fiction this year, beyond a few Gerald Seymour thrillers and Rex Stout mysteries, and so my list is all nonfiction—the common theme ends up being history and reportage that surprised and impressed me. In no particular order, here they are:
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) January 2, 2022