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Data guy into weird music.
Overuser of "awesome".
Really good at making charts for money.
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Dad, biker, city lover, somewhere in MA - it's complicated, veggie eater, dog owner.

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I've never seen/noticed this before but I'm saving cash at the library.
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Doing a pinned thread of my reading for 2024. Goal is 40 books, which is for sure low, but I also believe in playing games on "easy" mode. Audiobooks count, sorry.
Feel free to mute this if not your ball of wax.

Book stuff, but in app form.
Goodreads :
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Story Graph : https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brucy
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Book 1/40
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté.
Self help and psychology. 5*

I start a lot of self help books but they are all usually a blog post stretched to 225 pages (If Books Could Kill gave me that). This one really hit home with research and genuine compassion. Deals with trauma of all kinds and in different spaces without giving easy answers. I genuinely got a lot from this to help me. Of course YRMV.

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Book 2/40
The City-State of Boston by Mark Peterson
History, city biography. 4.25*

I love a good city biography (different from a history as it treats the city as its own entity) and this one was super interesting. Learned a bunch, occluding that New England almost broke away from the US in 1814, but were stopped by the surprise victory at the Battle of New Orleans. As good as Montefiore's book on Jerusalem.
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Book 3/40
The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr (audio, RBTA)
Work, capitalism, food. 4*

My Dad worked in grocery all his adult life, so this had particular appeal. Learned a bunch about trucking scams and pay, berries, Trader Joe (the person), Trader Joe's (the Aldi company), the Whole Foods Bowery seafood counter, and enough about shrimp and slavery for a while. It is almost too much, as any of these could be its own book.

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Book 4/40
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction, War On Vietnam, 5*

A great story about a communist spy during the War On Vietnam and immediately after. Compelling tale of war, how we see people, how we see ourselves, and the divisions inside us. The writing style is amazing and I bomb-ran through the last 50 pages. Looking forward to the series.

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Book 5 & 6
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Scifi, classic, libertarian 3.75*

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Africa, colonization, classic 5*

Two books that could be put under a colonization banner. Both about groups trying to be free.
Heinlein's libertarianism and casual 50s racism is really off-putting. Try to meet books where they are but yikes.
TFA I wish I read earlier, great book. Moving on to the second book.
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