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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
cannot believe my major takeaway from this book was sympathy for the founders-turned-murderers of vine
Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
look i fell for the promo for this book so bad that by the time i could get it from the library i had already listened to several amazing podcast interviews about it and so i found that i could not command the attention span to actually glean the rest of the book. i am sorry. i am filter kid
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
i also live in this genre of “essay-poem-annotated bibliography-intense relationship with God-wow trauma” and it’s good here actually
The Breath of God by Etienne Veto
i love when academics title things "essays" that are in fact perfectly lovely and well-developed books. this is a book. i thought it was pretty good. calm down
Following the Footsteps of the Invisible: The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photikë by Cliff Ermatinger
the introduction is stellar!!!!! but a part of me dies whenever a translator clearly resents the target language
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
it is a refuge, occasionally, to just sit in the company of an Intellectual (TM) and think big Thoughts (TM), honestly
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
i liked the part where he reinvented the wheel by describing catholic religious life in minute detail and recommended it to protestants. that was funny
Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within by Taylor Armstrong
the interviews she has given since “woman yells at cat” are forming the bedrock of my media apostle spirituality and i am not joking