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Zingoleb:
Queer Essentials: Facts for Your Gay Brain
It's an okay primer, it just glosses over a number of things. It's great for pointing someone in the right direction for further studies, but let's face it, a page on Stonewall isn't exactly going to cut it.
I do like the argument that Sappho wasn't a lesbian, she merely taught and was fond of her female students much in the same way Socrates taught and was fond of his male students. It's one of the most hilarious arguments I've ever heard because it failed so miserably.
Carl-E:
The Italian Secretary, one of the further adventures of Sherlock holmes, by Caleb Carr. A christmas gift from one of my daughters, and the first book I've been able to read for pleasure in years.
It's very convincing - he's got Watson's narrative voice down pat, and the mystery is a good one, typical Holmesian nonsense where the reader doesn't have a chance of knowing what's really going on...
Is it cold in here?:
"Flirting With Disaster", Marc Gerstein and Michael Ellsberg.
Kind of a more popularized version of Nancy Leveson's "Safeware", with much less informative detail than Leveson in the horror stories.
Advocates out-of-band reporting systems so people can report safety problems without being punished for it, but doesn't mention the highly successful working example of the Aviation Safety Reporting System. Other good advice is to treat near-miss reports, not as bad news to be suppressed or as evidence that accidents won't actually happen, but as "free tuition".
Recommends whistleblowing. After a few lame suggestions about seeking allies first, finally admits that anyone who takes his advice will ruin their career and maybe their life.
Mister D Nomms:
So the book basicaly says that nothing you read will actually work well in the real world? It's like finding out at the end of a movie that it was all a dream or some shit.
Blyss:
Currenty reading 'The City and the City' by China Mieville. Just got copies of the 'Hunger Games' trio that is currently out too. Oh, and 'Full Dark, No Stars' by Stephen King - it's a collection of short stories, and I always like his short stories.
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