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PaperclipPerfector  12hr ago (text post)   204 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 15, 2026

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So, what are you reading?

I'm picking up al-Gharbi's We Have Never Been Woke. It's more scholarly and less popular than expected. The title apparently means that for all the woke signalling being done, actual wokeness is more about appearances and ambition than anything.

What the Hell Did I Just Read? (John Dies at the End: Book 3) by Jason Pargin. FWIW, I didn't like the second as much as the first but #3 is exploring concepts that are more interesting to me and I'm liking it better than #2.

I finished Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True during the week. It was pretty good, and I really did get the impression it had been gestating within the author for a long time. It concerns events which happened in the late 90s, but was only published in 2022. I really did feel like Hsu has been writing about these events in private journals for decades, trying to process his feelings.

Reading Lying for Money, for the third time. One of the most entertaining non-fiction books I've ever read, I just cannot get enough of it.

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