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📚 Finished reading: Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urba…
A great primer for anyone fascinated by how the Dutch went from almost losing the war with the automobile in the 60’s and 70’s to becoming the beacon for creating an entire country that is designed for humans first and cars last. It also details how these ideas are being exported to places around the world as more and more people seek to reclaim public spaces from cars.
Currently reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
I’m actually 100/360 pages in. It’s a serious 🐰🕳️ of a page turner so far!
[Previously: 📚want to read: parable of the sower and also Previously.
Want to read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Intrigued by how so many authors kinda predicted our current predicament uncannily. From The Washington Post via Apple News this morning:
A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted devastating climate change, inequality, space travel and ‘Make America great again’
Finished reading: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami 📚
…this was my first Murakami book and one of the first novels that I read cover-to-cover in its original Japanese back when I was still learning. I should also say I read the other books too (Pinball, Norwegian Wood) but those were the translated English ones…