[CC] Hey there! I’m Kazen and welcome to Always Doing. Here’s the nonfiction I’m most looking forward to in 2023, from sure to be blockbuster releases to titles you won’t hear about anywhere else.
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Video mentioned:
2 for 1 Review: How to Do Nothing and When Less Becomes More
Books mentioned:
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Daniel HoSang
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57031251-under-the-blacklight
Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61331866-hanging-out?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era edited by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60782691-unsafe-words
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life by Johan Eklöf, translated by Elizabeth DeNoma
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61272192-the-darkness-manifesto
Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America by Yasmine Ali
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61192831-walk-through-fire
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108305.Triangle
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61475786-sounds-fake-but-okay
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61358639-saving-time
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42771901-how-to-do-nothing
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City by Ben Wilson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61285361-urban-jungle
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61327473-still-life-with-bones
All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35212990-all-that-remains
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61358638-poverty-by-america
Failure to Communicate: Why We Misunderstand What We Hear, Read, and See by Roger Kreuz
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781633888890/Failure-to-Communicate-Why-We-Misunderstand-What-We-Hear-Read-and-See
The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek, translated by Robert Weatherall and Marie Weatherall
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784661-the-gardener-s-year
“Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?”: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920 by The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62057825-besides-who-would-believe-a-prisoner
Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire by Clare Frank
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61783802-burnt
Both Sides of the Fire Line: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter by Bobbie Scopa
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60182413-both-sides-of-the-fire-line
Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785510-breathing-fire
Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places by Greggor Mattson
https://www.sup.org/books/cite/?id=34279
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13 Comments
Nice picks, I am putting Who Needs Gay Bars on my tbr!
Under the Black Light sounds great.
And Unsafe Words
When I go back to my parents house the darkness is so much more profound than in the suburb where I live.
Lighthearted nonfiction is a rarity
Omg Kazen hanging out can totally be resistance against capitalism haha! I imagine it’s making the case for resisting productivity culture. (Anti-productivity time management is the topic I teach in my real life 😝). Anyway, totally adding Hanging out to my list. (The new Jenny Odell is of course also on my list)
Poverty, by America looks interesting. I've been meaning and meaning to read Evicted too!
These all sound amazing!
A new book on the TBR and a new podcast to listen to – sounds fake is added! Hanging Out sounds interesting as well.
15:05 Oh wow, this is such a great list! Thank you so much for the heads up and I will be sooo looking forward to getting my hands of many of them in time. I completely relate to the issue of light pollution and what we see in the night sky. I live in a rural area and a few years ago I installed an old bath outside my house – best thing I ever did. It’s simply magical to watch the stars late at night from a position of warmth. It completely changes the sorts of things I think about.
Love hearing about upcoming books The Darkness Manifesto and Walk through Fire are going on my TBR and Sounds Fake But Okay had kinda bad rating already (on GR) with some well thought out reviews but led me to this book that looks very interesting Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
I'll be on the lookout for Still life with bones, it sounds intense but interesting. Also I found it funny when you said you had mixed feelings on How to do nothing as your channel name is Always doing haha.
I read The Gardener's Year by Karel Čapek last year. Though it is funny, it is very clearly written a hundred years ago. My main pet peeve was that the author kept on referring to any potential gardener as male. If you want a more recent lighthearted collection of essays on gardening, look up My Wild Garden by Meir Shalev. The essays and his philosophy of gardening is so strongly rooted in where he lives (Israël), that it also serves as a great way of transporting the reader to a different place. It got me through a particularly dreary European winter, dreaming away about this Mediterranean garden. It also has wonderful watercolor art on the various plants Shalev discusses.
OMG I totally need to read Under the Blacklight!!
Under the Blacklight sounds fantastic! and I'm also very intrigued by The Darkness Manifesto
yes to more light-hearted translated nonfiction!! (and fiction, tbh!)
Definitely want to read the new Matthew Desmond. Evicted was excellent!