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Blueberry
Lost Horizon: A Novel | James Hilton
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Eggs Still beautiful ❄️🩵🏔️ 6d
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Robotswithpersonality
UTOPIA FOR REALISTS. | RUTGER. BREGMAN
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Pickpick

Honestly, a much easier and more straightforward read than I thought to was going to be.
It definitely brings the facts and the stats, and not all of them are encouraging, but in proposing better ideas for the future it helps to present, and properly frame, the mistakes and misconceptions of the past.
An overwhelming proportion of this book is about money and work, but that makes a great deal of sense, from at the very least a subjective 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? view, because those are definitely the main factors affecting my happiness on the regular. 💁🏼‍♂️ And Bregman makes a compelling case for how these factors can overhaul society.
I appreciate the book ending in a kick in the pants aimed at the Left/'underdog socialists', the man knows his mostly likely audience and is eager to ensure action by again pointing out what hasn't worked, and in inspirational fashion, what could.
1w
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 This book is ten years old, so the repeated references to obesity in the context of problems society could be tackling better is perhaps unsurprising. I would hope that if a revised edition is issued this gets replaced with 'negative health outcomes', or similar more accurate, relevant phrasing.
1w
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xicanti
A Modern Utopia | H G Wells
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Here I am, making my sloooooow way through A MODERN UTOPIA. It‘s more interesting than I expected, and Wells has made a solid attempt to balance different perspectives as he crafts his ideal society. That said, this is still very much an early-1900s-style Utopia, and I expect the next chapter, on the role of women, may leave me somewhat scowly.

ALSO, I‘ve realized I have H.G. Wells & George Orwell tangled up in my head. THEY‘RE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

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MaggieCarr
Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Mehso-so

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 book Herland is a thought-provoking work of utopian fiction and a time capsule of early twentieth-century feminism. On the eve of the First World War, sociology student Vandyck Jennings goes on an expedition with two of his friends to search for a society rumored to consist only of women. On the way to what they will name "Herland," Van and his friends ponder the type of women they hope or expect to see when they...

MaggieCarr ...get there... but they find no fantasies when they arrive. Herland is an all-female, community-driven utopia. Van and his friends are skeptical of a society that doesn't even need men to procreate, but women and girls who live there have all been raised in a world entirely removed from the patriarchy of the wider world. To them, Herland is a paradise; there are no wars, no conflicts, and no oppressive concepts of gender. These young men... 3mo
MaggieCarr ... however, are not easily brought into the fold. During their time in Herland, Van and his friends must decide whether they will remain entrenched in their own views of women and society, or if they will open their minds to a way of living, they could scarcely have ever imagined. 3mo
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MaggieCarr
Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Herland keeps showing up on feminist book lists I'm trying to read through. Noticed it's book #2 in a trilogy. But book #1 is rarely mentioned. Do I need to read the first to understand what is happening in Herland?

ChaoticMissAdventures I keep seeing it too and never realized it was a series! 3mo
MaggieCarr @ChaoticMissAdventures maybe someone can help us! 3mo
Lauranahe I didn‘t realize that either! 3mo
Bookwomble You can read it standalone. Its feminist credentials are era specific, so expect some 😬 moments along with the ❤️ 3mo
MaggieCarr @Bookwomble yes, gritting my teeth! 3mo
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Moss_Croft
The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin
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KathyWheeler
Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Mehso-so

While I overall liked this, it was a bit too pedantic, and the all female country was a little too perfect. The practice of eugenics that led to their utopia was, although only mentioned once as history, disturbing. The narrator also views attempted rape in a “boys will be boys” manner. I loved that their society included pockets — lots of them— in the women‘s clothing, showing not much has changed since Gilman wrote this.

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KathyWheeler
Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Well, it started snowing here, so I‘m inside with Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the lovely cup of tea my husband just made me.

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GatheringBooks
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
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