Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—though in this case, a while back is just last week. Richard Lloyd Parry had lived in Japan for a few decades by the time that the tsunami in March 2011 hit the country. Ghosts […]
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—in this case, last week. So, I stumbled onto this book at a used bookstore in Cheongju, and bought it hoping it would discuss the tulipomania—the tulip craze that swept the Netherlands (and other parts […]
As always, I’m posting this weeks and weeks after I read it. Well, weeks, anyway. I picked up this book at a university booksale in Jakarta many years ago; I apparently read it in 2016, though I didn’t realize it until near the end, when I reached the most memorable portion of the book—that which […]
As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts go anywhere from a few weeks to a month after I’ve read them. I read this particular book last week, though! The Wages of Whiteness is a book that’s been on my shelf since I read John Strausbaugh’s Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & […]
One of the podcasts I listen to quite a bit is Stuff You Missed in History Class. They recently ran a “classic” episode demystifying the life of Johnny Appleseed, as John Chapman has become known. Now, all I really knew about him was from the Disney cartoon and one volume about the man in the […]