June is my birthday month, and I celebrated by driving clockwise around Lake Michigan, starting in my home town of Grand Rapids and hitting Madison, Marquette, and Sault Ste Marie before returning home. In each city, we stopped at an independent bookstore where I offered my monetary support in exchange for bound bundles of words. That, plus the arrival of a couple of Kickstarter rewards, made this the biggest book acquisition month of the year thus far.
Acquisitions
- Rihannon Rasmussen and dave ring (editors), Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention (Neon Hemlock Press) [2023.06.02] – Kickstarter reward
- China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (Haymarket Books) [2023.06.03] – Purchased from Books and Mortar bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Maurizio Lazzarato, Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution (Semiotext(e)) [2023.06.06] – Purchased at A Room of One’s Own bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin
- R.F. Kuang, Yellowface [2023.06.06] – Purchased at A Room of One’s Own bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin
- Chris McCabe (editor), Poems from the Edge of Extinction [2023.06.08] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan
- Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise [2023.06.09] – Purchased at Island Books and Crafts in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
- Florence McClinchey, Joe Pete (Ziibi Press) [2023.06.09] – Purchased at Island Books and Crafts in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
- Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier (editors), Solar Flare: Solarpunk Stories (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
- S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier (editors), Dragonesque (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
- Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi (editors), Game On! (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
- David B. Coe and Edmund B. Schubert (editors), Artifice & Craft (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
Reading List
Books
- Jim Harrison, Returning to Earth (re-read) [2023.06.04]
- R.F. Kuang, Yellowface [2023.06.16]
- Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. [2023.06.24]
- Jonathan C. Creasy (editor), Black Mountain Poems: An Anthology [2023.06.25]
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Nomadology: The War Machine [2023.06.30]