What’s on your summer reading list? We’d love to hear what books the Cosmos community is enjoying this season, or planning to enjoy soon!
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Great profile photo, Skye!
Well, I just picked up a novel from our local (Longmont) library, which I can’t vouch for yet, but I’m going to give a try. I hear it’s popular with the Weird crowd.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
by Qntm
yep, loved it.
Lovecraft on steroids
Weird? Very!!!
I listened to the audible version which was great. Let us know what you think, it’s not that long
A couple chapters in—and I’m not so sure, tbh.
It’s clever, suggestive in all sorts of ways, but I’m not sold on the set-up or the premise.
I’ll read a little more and see if that changes…
I’m reading The Vital Spark by Lisa Marchiano and
Ecocivilization by Jeremy Lent
And I listened to Soulmakers #15 on Substack a great conversation from ICON attendees Cheryl and Layman with presenter Adriana Forte, a baby elder.
I am currently reading Hell Followed With Us a horror debut novel by Andrew Joseph White…not as good as his second book The Spirit Bears Its Teeth which I highly recommend for folks who enjoy body horror, historical horror, and LGBTQ representation.
I am reading mostly non-fiction these days (which includes poetry). eg all books by Craig Childs, his newest being The Wild Dark, concerning the effect on humans and all the others who are our kin, of too much light and too little darkness, never seeing the stars or the astounding arch of the Milky Way: our minds are smaller without the Milky Way and the starry night! His other books are about encounters with wild animals, deserts and bodies of water: The Secret Knowledge of Water, The Way Out, and many others.
Always an essential: Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton!
I’ve been reading David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and feeling like it should be required reading for high school seniors. Having this perspective on communication early in life could radically influence one’s trajectory into adulthood.
The following bit stood out to me in a way that it wouldn’t have had I not been following Michael E’s Acousmatic work on Metapsychosis: “Linguistic meaning, for [Merleau-Ponty], is rooted in the felt experience induced by specific sounds and sound-shapes as they echo and contrast with one another, each language a kind of song, a particular way of ‘singing the world.’” From the eBook, p. 76.
Welcome to Cosmos! Thanks for bringing up this great book (read it a long time back) and for the quote from Merleau-Ponty.
