I'm still laughing about the Judith Butler comment! I'm not sure I could get through a chapter, let alone an entire book, of Judith Butler. I recently stumbled on a take down of Butler that Martha Nussbaum wrote in 1999. After reading this, and impressed that someone foresaw the terrible impact of Bulter's views, I looked into Martha. Sh…
I'm still laughing about the Judith Butler comment! I'm not sure I could get through a chapter, let alone an entire book, of Judith Butler. I recently stumbled on a take down of Butler that Martha Nussbaum wrote in 1999. After reading this, and impressed that someone foresaw the terrible impact of Bulter's views, I looked into Martha. She's still alive. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Nussbaum). On my reading list for 2025 is her book The Fragility of Goodness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fragility_of_Goodness).
Love your list! I will try to read at least five books on it in the coming year.
Here's my list of books, ones that I read to the end in 2024 that I thought worth reading:
Good Girls by Hadley Freeman, (Hadley's personal memoire about having an eating disorder in her teens and twenties)
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier, (Shrier's investigation into therapy, with a particular focus on California)
Time to Think by Hanna Barnes, (Barnes does a deep dive on the Tavistock Clinic in the UK and their attempts to treat gender dysphoria in the last twenty years.)
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lind, (looks at the basis for post-modernism and its evolution in the last eighty years)
Dreamland by Sam Quinones, (deep dive investigative report on the opiate crisis in the US)
The Least of Us by Sam Quinones, (deep dive investigative report on the fentanyl and meth crisis)
Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin, (interesting inside look at energy pricing, the electrical grid and electricity generation)
Under the Bridge by Rebbeca Godfrey, (riveting account of the murder of Reena Virk by a group of teenagers in Victoria, British Columbia)
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Feline Philosophy by John Gray, (Gray ponders how cats see the world and how we might benefit from seeing the world through the eyes of cats)
Pandora’s Gamble by Alison Young, (investigative report and history of virology research, and its risks, in the US since the 1930s)
I'm still laughing about the Judith Butler comment! I'm not sure I could get through a chapter, let alone an entire book, of Judith Butler. I recently stumbled on a take down of Butler that Martha Nussbaum wrote in 1999. After reading this, and impressed that someone foresaw the terrible impact of Bulter's views, I looked into Martha. She's still alive. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Nussbaum). On my reading list for 2025 is her book The Fragility of Goodness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fragility_of_Goodness).
Love your list! I will try to read at least five books on it in the coming year.
Here's my list of books, ones that I read to the end in 2024 that I thought worth reading:
Good Girls by Hadley Freeman, (Hadley's personal memoire about having an eating disorder in her teens and twenties)
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier, (Shrier's investigation into therapy, with a particular focus on California)
Time to Think by Hanna Barnes, (Barnes does a deep dive on the Tavistock Clinic in the UK and their attempts to treat gender dysphoria in the last twenty years.)
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lind, (looks at the basis for post-modernism and its evolution in the last eighty years)
Dreamland by Sam Quinones, (deep dive investigative report on the opiate crisis in the US)
The Least of Us by Sam Quinones, (deep dive investigative report on the fentanyl and meth crisis)
Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin, (interesting inside look at energy pricing, the electrical grid and electricity generation)
Under the Bridge by Rebbeca Godfrey, (riveting account of the murder of Reena Virk by a group of teenagers in Victoria, British Columbia)
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Feline Philosophy by John Gray, (Gray ponders how cats see the world and how we might benefit from seeing the world through the eyes of cats)
Pandora’s Gamble by Alison Young, (investigative report and history of virology research, and its risks, in the US since the 1930s)