Leigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.place Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism
Peter StaleyLeigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.placeJust read @peterstaley's incredible memoir, "Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism." From Staley &co social-engineer their way into the NYSE to the closing chapter on his friendship with Fauci, it's a tour de force. You can read an excerpt here: https://t.co/1C7z1nnHbx
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
Zoë QuinnLeigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.place@runasand @BriannaWu @TaylorLorenz Zoë Quinn's "Crash Override" and Sarah Jeong's "The Internet of Garbage" both do a good job at this fwiw
Hardcover, 2017
$27.00Member price:$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
David GraeberLeigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.place@BeijingPalmer David Graeber’s “Debt: the first 5000 years” touches on it a few times
Paperback, 2014
$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor DoughertyLeigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.place@DevineSean For something a little more recent, Conor Dougherty's "Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream" does a fantastic job summarising how things can go terribly wrong if we as a society decide not to build housing: https://t.co/YMHoaaJceU
Hardcover, 2020
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fire on the Mountain
Terry BissonLeigh Honeywell ➡️ @leigh@ottawa.placeOn John Brown's birthday, I'm reminded of Terry Bisson's wonderful alternate history Fire on the Mountain: https://t.co/SuyCR81bUJ
Paperback, 2009
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book