https://slackersmuse.com/tags/to-reread/ Recent content in to-reread on Slacker's Muse Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_theincal/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_theincal/ A Review: The Incal Title of Work: The Incal Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky Format: Published: 1981 Started: Finished: 2025-11-08\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Really cool art style in this graphic novel/comic from an iconic duo: the Chilean-French film director Alejandro Jodorowsky and the great French artist and illustrator Jean Giraud, better known by his alias, mœbius. Visionaries, the pair of ’em and their works influenced massive franchises like Star Wars, Bladerunner, and The Matrix in subsequent decades, both visually and spiritually. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_woodyguthriesongsandartwordsandwisdom/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_woodyguthriesongsandartwordsandwisdom/ A Review: Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom Title of Work: Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom Author: Robert Santelli Format: Published: Started: Finished: 2025-09-29\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Wow… wow wow wow. I’m obsessed with this book – the cartoons and the paintings and the songs and the stories and Woody Guthrie, the man himself. Everything we consume makes us different somehow as it passes through, but it’s usually hard to notice. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_theoverstory/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_theoverstory/ A Review: The Overstory Title of Work: The Overstory Author: Richard Powers Format: Published: 2018 Started: Finished: 2024-04-28\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 It’s good in a sort of East of Eden way but with an entirely different flavor profile. A splash of Grapes of Wrath too, empathy for the downtrodden and exploited–maybe more like us than we thought. Very eco-centric. The slow and rich lives of trees and what they may teach us if we slow down and give them time time to share what they’ve learned in their hundreds of millions of years of experimentation. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_dumbingusdownthehiddencurriculumofcompulsoryschooling/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_dumbingusdownthehiddencurriculumofcompulsoryschooling/ A Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Title of Work: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Author: John Taylor Gatto Format: Published: 2002 Started: Finished: 2024-04-16\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Finished on the plane. It’s a skinny book of essays but with big ol’ implications and ideas. Has me feeling all transformed and revolutionary, sheesh. Recommend to any teachers, students, citizens, parents, or folks just feeling like there must be something more, like the life we’ve been given, told is the best way, the only way, sounds a little hollow when you wake up long enough to knock on the shell. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_ninestories/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_ninestories/ A Review: Nine Stories Title of Work: Nine Stories Author: J.D. Salinger Format: Published: 1948 Started: Finished: 2023-12-29\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 I’m really mixed up about this one and… awestruck maybe? So concentrated, pure reduction, essence of short story. You almost think oh it’s formulaic, I figured out the gag then sort of lose your way half way through the next one and don’t quite find it again before the last few lines put you right back on your ass. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thecreativeactawayofbeing/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thecreativeactawayofbeing/ A Review: The Creative Act: A Way of Being Title of Work: The Creative Act: A Way of Being Author: Rick Rubin Format: Published: 2023 Started: Finished: 2023-12-03\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Felt a little soft at first, a little cliché. I even worried briefly that Rubin might descend into a self-helpification of the creative process. But with time my defenses softened and all of my hopes for this book bubbled into clarity. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thesunalsorises/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thesunalsorises/ A Review: The Sun Also Rises Title of Work: The Sun Also Rises Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Published: 1926 Started: Finished: 2023-11-09\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 It’s light but light happened to be exactly what I needed. I can’t map out exactly why I think so yet but I kept thinking as I read that TSAR is like the classic novel equivalent of reality TV. Sure, maybe Hemingway is getting at something deeper here but, in practice, we get lots of brief, dramatized observations of the daily experiences and relationships between a small group of friends over a short period of time. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_lolita/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_lolita/ A Review: Lolita Title of Work: Lolita Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Published: 1955 Started: Finished: 2022-12-11\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Lolita and Shame This story has long existed at the periphery of my literary awareness, always inexplicably important but subdued within a dark air of shame and perversion. I could acknowledge its existence only with sidelong glances, perhaps feeling if I looked at it directly, if I picked it up and turned to the first page, that I would be forced to stand before interrogations to which I did not yet know how to reply: why would you read that? https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwritingamemoirofthecraft/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwritingamemoirofthecraft/ A Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Title of Work: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Author: Stephen King Format: Published: 2002 Started: Finished: \ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Packed to the brim with thought provoking material for hopeful writers. Not just wishy-washy “trust your gut” or “show don’t tell” kind of stuff, though it is in there with a healthy dose of caveat. Sound, reasonable methods (with examples) for aspiring and working writers though I do wonder how much the publishing landscape has changed even in the past 5 years relative to when this was originally published in the early aughts.