Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de
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70% complete! Ji FU has read 28 of 40 books.
The epic saga of three women who survived the Soviet holocaust unleashed on German farmers in the Soviet Union.
The epic saga of three women who survived the Soviet holocaust unleashed on German farmers in the Soviet Union.
@rainer@bookwyrm.social how was it? Would you recommend?
Common Prayer helps today's diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear …
Christmas is short for "Christ's Mass," referring to the worship service that marks the birth of Christ. Celebrations during this [twelve day] season includes the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28), when we remember that the joy of Christ's coming was marked by genocide as Herod fearfully massacred other children in Bethlehem.
— Common Prayer by Shane Claiborne (Page 78)
A reminder that Palestine has been forced to face genocide for generations of governments.
The complete text of the Catholic Living Bible, in a special edition designed to appeal …
The only thing that could have made this better is if they put the Deuterocanonical Books in Septuagint order within the Old Testament like a proper Catholic Bible rather than putting them in their own spot, as if apocryphal, like a Protestant Bible.
The complete text of the Catholic Living Bible, in a special edition designed to appeal …
Alienation: of students from parents, of blacks from whites, of Arab from Jew . . . all around us and throughout the world we see the need to reach out in love toward our fellow humans . . . to love people as they are.
In a little Jewish town years ago, God did just this. He reached out in love to every human through his Son, Jesus Christ.
— The Way (Page 800)
@4thace@books.theunseen.city ooo this one is going in the library book queue
John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically …
Rumours and accusations are reaching Stargate Command, and nothing is making sense. When SG-1 is met with fear and loathing …
“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one …
What is Property is a difficult book to rate. From a production standpoint this may well be the best non-fiction audiobook I've listened to. Certainly the best with footnotes. I don't know how to describe it, but it wasn't annoying. James Gilles was amazing.
As far as the work itself it was a mixed bag. P-J.P. I felt made many good points. I personally was surprised by how much a self-described anarchist quoted scripture and Church history in his argument that property is an artificial establishment of the State used to control the working class.
However he seemed to have a few complete misses in his arguments. He acted as though property is like matter, not being able to be created or destroyed. While we know the attagem"buy land they aren't making any more of it," even private property is more than land. He also acts as though …
What is Property is a difficult book to rate. From a production standpoint this may well be the best non-fiction audiobook I've listened to. Certainly the best with footnotes. I don't know how to describe it, but it wasn't annoying. James Gilles was amazing.
As far as the work itself it was a mixed bag. P-J.P. I felt made many good points. I personally was surprised by how much a self-described anarchist quoted scripture and Church history in his argument that property is an artificial establishment of the State used to control the working class.
However he seemed to have a few complete misses in his arguments. He acted as though property is like matter, not being able to be created or destroyed. While we know the attagem"buy land they aren't making any more of it," even private property is more than land. He also acts as though all value is a a zero-sum game, completely ignoring the subjective value of goods and services that results from not everyone thinking the same things are important to them. I don't think these points necessarily disprove his theory but their absence is apparent. Maybe they weren't known in the mid-19th century?
Prodouhn is also pretty full of himself acting as though his thought experiments are truly scientific and anyone who disagree is an idiot. This issue gets worse in the second memoir were he tries to conteract his ditractors. On top of that he starts in the second going on about how the monarch needs to be the leader of the French radical Party against the bourgeoisie. I always thought anarcho-monarchisn was a joke, I'm still not convinced it's not.
I had hoped he'd get more into the history of WHY the idea that mixing one's labor with land, or occupying land, had come to be how property was determined, but not much there, lots of went that idea is bull, whith which I agree.
From number one king of comedy David Walliams comes his first Christmas caper – packed full of hilarious toy-shop action!
…“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of his answers to the …
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
I was disappointed by this book. I had been looking forward to reading it since I first heard of it, but alas.
As a prison abolitionist I should know better than to think someone who calls themselves a prision reformer is going to have the trans I'm hoping they will. Even after three years in prison Kerik still comes out as a conservative patriotic Republican. He makes some really good points that might make some lawmakers think twice. Costs to the public to lock 'em up, the dangers of solitary confinement, attack on the families that did nothing to wrong, unnecessary lengths of sentences, problems getting employment after being labeled an felon, etc. But he still comes back to the need for punishment, including for terrorist suspects awaiting trial, and he several times tries to show that he, like many other white collar criminals, not as bad as these …
I was disappointed by this book. I had been looking forward to reading it since I first heard of it, but alas.
As a prison abolitionist I should know better than to think someone who calls themselves a prision reformer is going to have the trans I'm hoping they will. Even after three years in prison Kerik still comes out as a conservative patriotic Republican. He makes some really good points that might make some lawmakers think twice. Costs to the public to lock 'em up, the dangers of solitary confinement, attack on the families that did nothing to wrong, unnecessary lengths of sentences, problems getting employment after being labeled an felon, etc. But he still comes back to the need for punishment, including for terrorist suspects awaiting trial, and he several times tries to show that he, like many other white collar criminals, not as bad as these guys they lock up, though he does have soft spot for nonviolent drug offenders.
I think this one is worth skipping for most people, unless you have a right wing uncle who might have room in his heart to bleed a little bit.
The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor killed, and Darth Vader struck down—devastating …
The first Star Wars work I recall with multiple #lgbt characters
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
According to recent figures from the government, the average cost to incarcerate a federal prisoner is $28,284 annually. A person would naturally assume that an offender sentence to 3 years in federal prison would cost the government and the American taxpayers $84,852. Wrong! The cost is only to incarcerate the prisoner. The collateral economic cost of his three year incarceration far outweigh the government's out of pocket expenses, and here's why: If the prisoner earned $100,000 a year before his arrest and incarceration, the government loses the tax income on that, and the economy loses his cost-of-living spending.
That is a loss of $300,000 to the economy—$100,000 over 3 years—plus the nearly $85,000 for his incarceration. Then add the cost of the investigation that led to his conviction, and the total is close to half a million.
— From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik (Page 265)
This is based on a report from 11 years ago. Costs have only gone up and value of the USD gone down. Even conservatives that only care about money should see the problem here.
