50 Book Challenge
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tenshikurai929. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
Not a guidebook to specific places in the world, but a guidebook as to how to enable spontaneous traveling. I love the long lists of resources at the end of the chapters.
30. All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopmann
It's a children's book with pictures of cats and descriptions of possible Asperger Syndrome symptoms as though the cats have it. Cute.
31. The Hole: Consumer Culture, Volume 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
A graphic novel which keeps-on jumping back and forth in time to show another character's back story.
There's a "hyper-vodou" that's been created and sold by one of the characters. (She's commodifying religion in shows and clothing in an attempt to get it exposed to more people.) Basically, the authors are trying to show commercialization and races relations in the US.
In the back they mention they were using variations of previous racial stereotypes as part of their comments on commodification, but I missed the stereotypes they were using as I was reading. Kinda distracted by not finding the story line/presentation as not deep. Oh look. Here's another, look!, we're being marketed to thing.
At least their short history lesson and exercises to get you to think in the back was interesting.
Not a guidebook to specific places in the world, but a guidebook as to how to enable spontaneous traveling. I love the long lists of resources at the end of the chapters.
30. All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopmann
It's a children's book with pictures of cats and descriptions of possible Asperger Syndrome symptoms as though the cats have it. Cute.
31. The Hole: Consumer Culture, Volume 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
A graphic novel which keeps-on jumping back and forth in time to show another character's back story.
There's a "hyper-vodou" that's been created and sold by one of the characters. (She's commodifying religion in shows and clothing in an attempt to get it exposed to more people.) Basically, the authors are trying to show commercialization and races relations in the US.
In the back they mention they were using variations of previous racial stereotypes as part of their comments on commodification, but I missed the stereotypes they were using as I was reading. Kinda distracted by not finding the story line/presentation as not deep. Oh look. Here's another, look!, we're being marketed to thing.
At least their short history lesson and exercises to get you to think in the back was interesting.
