books i want to read

https://twitter.com/operaqueenie/status/1343250451681067008:
ICYMI, a thread about â¤ď¸ and lifelong partnership.
And I canât believe I forgot to plug my favorite couples book of all time at the end of my thread.
âGetting the Love You Wantâ by Harville and Helen Hendrix: amazon.com/dp/1250310539/⌠https://twitter.com/operaqueenie/status/1342152821643173888

âPixar Storytellingâ is one of my favorite screenwriting books. Itâs not specific to animation. All screenwriters can benefit from reading it. It breaks down storytelling techniques and principles using Pixar films. So helpful. https://twitter.com/KirkWrites79/status/1343623619184758784/photo/1

Recommended by Gemma Tracey over lunch.

Recommended by Gemma Tracey over lunch.

https://twitter.com/EmmaDabiri/status/1331250075205562371:
Ta-da! Delighted to share the cover for #WhatWhitePeopleCanDoNext. WWPCDN is full of surprises and I think this cover alludes to that so beautifully. I love it so much đ
Preorder: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/what-white-people-can-do-next-from-allyship-to-coalition/9780141996738

https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/1295729956886999040:
My book is out today! If you find yourself having a bodyâor rather, being a bodyâit might be for you. Can I tell you some stories and ideas in it? They start with the question packed into the cover design itself: + https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/1295729956886999040/photo/1

Recommended by Jenny, whoâs just read and enjoyed it.

this blew up so: 1. I wrote a book called How To Be Alone, I recommend buying it from indie bookstores, ideally Black owned indie bookstores. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501178832 2. KEEP WEARING UR MASKS AND STAYING INSIDE. Even if we feel like gaslit losers, at least we know weâre not alone.


âThink BlackââA memoir by the son of the first black software engineer at IBM. Big thanks to @professorkim for letting me know about this new book.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-20/ibm-nazi-germany-tech-racism-father

This is a very good day to buy a copy of the award-winning âBlack and British: A Forgotten Historyâ by David Olusoga. And if youâve already read it, buy it for somebody else. First 5 people to reply here get a copy: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/david-olusoga/black-and-british/9781509837113

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1248980489735569410:
@alexwlchan I liked [On the Beach] but found it so uptight! It was an interesting portrait of 1950âs Australian mores. I recommend âWeâ by Yevgenii Zamyatin https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1248980489735569410/photo/1

https://twitter.com/hynek/status/1259536982411280386:
âAtomic Habitsâ is super good. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378

One of a series of photo books by the author.
Theyâre @abandonedameric on Twitter.

Iâm not sure who retweeted this into my feed, but check out the amazing launch video:
https://twitter.com/kacencallender/status/1257707297389850624:
my kidlit trans and enby fam came together for a #DontRushChallenege to help me celebrate Felix Ever Afterâs release!!
Felix has: -a trans, queer, Black MC -a whole lot of self-love -summer art camp rivalry -a happy ending đ
buy Felix Ever After here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062820259/⌠(video)

https://twitter.com/HanaAyoob/status/1248003867234775040:
@alexwlchan Have you read Built by @RomaTheEngineer? Seems like it might be a good time to!

Recommended by David MacIver.

Recommended in https://fortelabs.co/blog/how-to-take-smart-notes/


I found a preview in Google Books while looking for something else.
Seems more like an academic textbook; over $250! https://brill.com/view/title/35872

I saw a review of this in an issue of Rail magazine (see photo from 25 Nov 2019).

https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1226481634263928832:
Iâm currently reading âThe Origins of Inequalityâ and honestly I canât think of a more on brand book for me to be reading than âHere is how to use mathematics to understand genderâ.
https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1227512225914552321:
Just had a massive âOh shit thatâs whatâs going onâ moment reading this book. About 60% through so thoughts still gathering, but I think this book is going to get rated âstrongest recommendâ when Iâm done.
https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1228233781317734401:
OK, so Iâve just finished reading âThe Origins of Unfairnessâ by Cailin OâConnor. Hereâs a little thread about it.
First off: Strong recommend. Requires a little bit of maths, and it would help if youâve some exposure to theorising about gender but itâs reasonably gentle on both

Spotted in Blackwells in Oxford.

Recommended by somebody in the support group.

Recommended by Kathy.

Cited by Mike Schur as inspiration for Chidiâs speech in The Good Place:
Preparing for [the finale of The Good Place], I went back to that stuff, and I read more about Buddhism and Hinduism, which are wonderful.
I read this book that Iâm holding now, The Heart of the Buddhaâs Teaching, by Thich Nhat Hanh, whoâs a Vietnamese guy. I think he might have won the Nobel Peace Prize? If not he should have â ah, he was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize and apparently didnât win.

Iâve borrowed a copy from David MacIver, which he lent me a while back when I was figuring out more gender stuff.
The recommendation from him and Alex is to skim it for interesting, but I may not need to read it all in detail.

I spotted this with Jenny in the Bookshop on the Water, by Kingâs Cross.


Recommended by Emily Meredith

Recommended by somebody in the #genderfluid channel in the LGBTQ in Tech Slack. âReading Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl and loving it. I will report back when finished as well, but I assume you will all have bought it by the end of reading this sentence. You are welcome.â

Recommended by Emily Meredith

Recommended by David MacIver

Mentioned by somebody in the #genderfluid channel in the LGBTQ in Tech Slack.

Spotted at Julia Gâs house.

Seems like this could be a great bit of research for my Git plumbing workshop at ACCU.

âan absolutely wonderful book I wished Iâd read 10 or 15 years before I didâ ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504183


Suggestion of Sarah Barnes:
Having a nice coffee and reading @emilyadawsonâs excellent book. (Thanks @QMLibrary!)

Of course I want to read Jayâs poetry!



@XTaffi and @megjohnbarker have written a book that explores all kinds of false divisions, including the increasing harmful ânon-binary vs. binaryâ binary (what a mouthful): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43818540-life-isn-t-binary They explain it better than I can - read!

Recommended by a bookseller in Blackwells Oxford when I was buying the latest Becky Chambers novella (August 2019).



























https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2019-03-09-10%3A13.html
David: âI promise Iâm not inviting you to join my cult by recommending thisâ










âIâm reading âBurnoutâ by @emilynagoski and never have my twitter habits been so called out before

Great post! Are you familiar with Iain Banksâ âThe Bridgeâ? I read it on one of my last visits to Edinburgh and the bridges. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(novel)

Have you read The Organised Mind by Daniel Levitin? Itâs pretty good on this stuff. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693669-the-organized-mind
[this stuff] = managing life-admin type tasks

Have you read deathâs end trilogy, cixin liu? Big ideas and Chinese (though obvs I read in translation)
i really loved reading something set in a culture I know little about. the history of the 60s with the translators notes was fascinating, and the author just introduced it like we all know about struggle sessions. (warning: first chapter is traumatic, it gets less so)

I wonât lie, Iâm unlikely to pick up a maths textbook again â but noting this as one in case I do. Itâs âshort, good enough, and [âŚ] very cheap rather than the best choice everâ ~ David MacIver

The Houseplant Expert by Dr DG Hessayon is hands down the best houseplant book out there.
Taught me all I know from age 8. Still never been beaten.
(Heâs basically the Attenborough of gardening)

Everything Iâve made from this book has been unbelievable. Bought a copy for my mum because I love it so much. DO IT.




Read This Book About Nazis: Defying Hitler (and all the ways to fail at it) https://theawl.com/read-this-book-about-nazis-5d4471f2ffcd

I took a photo of this in Homerton Library, in Hackney.
