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2010

December 31, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries. I like that we end up back in NYC at the end of this book, with some familiar groups like Transportation Alternatives.
    • Why people feel that driving a car makes one independent minded is a mystery to me.--I kept thinking about this this last week, cars and buses littered throughout the city...

December 30, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries. I'm determined to finish this book in 2010, even though I read so little each day!
  • Reading the Romance
  • Letters, including a great one to Sandy from a colleague Dick Lee.
  • Parable of the Talents

December 29, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries
  • Reading the Romance. Radway's writing is always really inspirational to me, which I need today--got a deadline.

December 28, 2010

  • Bicycle Diaries
  • Critical Library Instruction
  • Parable of the Talents

December 27, 2010

  • Critical Library Instruction

December 26, 2010

  • Finished The Parable of the Sower
  • "Steering the Craft: an Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin," by Brittany Shoot, from Bitch, Fall 2010.
  • Bicycle Diaries

December 25, 2010

  • Parable of the Sower

December 24, 2010

  • The Parable of the Sower
  • The Night Bookmobile, an appreciated gift. I feel like this Reading Log is my Night Bookmobile...
  • Cookie recipes: Chocolate raspberry from the Veganomicon, and those holiday ones with a kiss on top.

December 23, 2010

  • The Parable of the Sower
  • Choice cards, zine piles and random articles as I prepare to leave the office for a while...

December 22, 2010

  • Questioning Library Neutrality
  • "A Troubled Tradition," by David Resnik, because a friend is interested in the problems therein. I am always intimidated by science. Always.
  • The Parable of the Sower

December 19-21, 2010

  • Trying to finish Blindness for Wednesday when it is due. I think I'll do it--it was a quick read, very visceral but really true and honest also. Which is strange to say about a book that is like The Road, but about blind people. Update: I did it!
  • Jenna's Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2010/Lower East Side Librarian Reading Log 2010.

Decamber 18, 2010

  • Blindness

December 17, 2010

  • Blindness
  • "The Librarian as Ethnographer: Notes Towards a Strategy for the Exploitation of Cultural Collections" by Chris Atton--very intriguing for collection development.

December 16, 2010

  • Critical Library Instruction
  • Blindness

December 13-15, 2010

  • Been reading NOTHING... just wishing to get over this damn cold.

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May 23, 2013

  • 11 years. RIP.

May 22, 2013

May 12, 2013

  • Lots of reading, amidst the cracks of life as it goes, changes. Halfway through E. Biella Coleman's Coding Freedom, started David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and wanted to start, but probably have to wait until after the thesis, bell hooks' Where We Stand: Class Matters.

April 24, 2013

  • A piece in the New Yorker about Noah Baumbach, a person whose work I have a lot of sympathy for somehow, but in this piece he sounds like he wants to be a vampire sucking the energy off of his girlfriend's ideas. Is that a great way to have a relationship, or a terrible way?
  • I've also been reading Living Anarchy on the train, while very tired lately.

April 23, 2013

  • Zines from the Brooklyn Zine Fest: Alex #4 and #5, Deafula #5, and Indulgence #11.

April 22, 2013

  • Jeppesen, Sandra. "Becoming Anarchist: The Function of Anarchist Literature." Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2011.2
  • Imhorst, Christian. "Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?"

April 19, 2013

  • Going to try to finish In Praise of Copying today. This book has pleasantly surprised me in many ways and I'm greatly enjoying it. Highly recommended if you would like to think more deeply about copying (and its mimetic, ever-present nature) on a philosophical level.
    Many of the books about intellectual property I've looked at recently discuss the absurdities of various IP situations, or examine IP clashes via specific (often outrageous) legal cases. This book, on the other hand, talks more about the practices and traditions of copying, collaging or appropriating through many different perspectives, going back to the work of philosophers who are long dead but also looking for the mimetic in religious practices, theory, art, and even inside the human body. Totally fascinating.
  • Also this article on drone, also by Boon.

April 11, 2013

  • More Moonwalking with Einstein, enjoying the history of the book (as related to memory) section.

April 10, 2013

  • Inching my way through Moonwalking with Einstein, which I've only read over BC lunches in the office.
  • Insomnia had me reading Fosterhood in NYC

April 9, 2013

  • About half of In Praise of Copying by Boon, which I am enjoying.

April 8, 2013

  • Read the introduction to Common as Air by Hyde.
  • Last week watched the documentary, Kind Hearted Woman. Among many powerful scenes, was struck by those where Robin took family to go walking through the U of M, and how looking at the university and thinking about what it offered was a powerful activity for them.

April 1, 2013

  • While fighting some kind of bug finished Please Kill Me and ripping through Cometbus Omnibus and Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

March 23, 2013

  • Been reading Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Not sure if it will help the thesis, but it's a good pick up/put down at random book.
  • Also still moving very slowly through Moonwalking with Einstein, my official over-lunch-at-work book of the moment.

March 13, 2013

  • Still finishing up Getting Things Done
  • Thesis reading: Living Anarchy by Jeff Shantz
  • Democracy Now! and WBAI, who could sincerely use your help.

March 9, 2013

  • Been reading Getting Things Done and trying to get things done.
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