Book Discussion?
Update: The book has been chosen.
My favorite vegan blogger asked some friends if they were interested in reading and discussing with him. I signed up, and we discussed an excellent book for four days in a row on Skype. It was a lot of fun, I got to know someone on a new level, and I learned a lot. This has got me wanting more, so I am inviting anyone interested to read/discuss a book with me at the end of July. If interested, please take a look at the books on my to-read list. I was thinking David Nibert’s book would be good, but that might be a bit dry (I’ve read a few pages before). Let me know what you would be interested in reading together, including possibilities not on my list, as long as it’s not something I’ve already read.
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Here are some books I haven’t read yet that I’d be interested in discussing:
-Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
-War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals
-Animal Philosophy
-Animal Geographies
-Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
-Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Don’t forget about
-Derrida’s “The Animal Therefore I am (More to Follow)” and -Coetzee’s _Lives of Animals_
Nibert’s book isn’t that great… Making a Killing (Torres), Beyond Boundaries (Noske), and “Animals are Part of the Working Class” (Hribal) are better.
Oh, “Making a Killing” is the book I was originally thinking of by Bob Torres. “Animal Geographies” sounds interesting, and I definitely want to read more about waste! I just looked up “Animal Geographies”; now that sounds *really* interesting. And my library has it. SWEET. This one’s at the top of my list right now, but let’s see if anyone else has any ideas.
Hi!
You asked me on Good Reads if I was interested in discussing Animal Geographies with you. I apologize for not responding sooner, so I’m responding here. I would love to discuss it with you.
Here are some other books related to animality, human-animal relationships, animal oppression, and veganism I found very inspiring and emergent in their own ways:
How Animals Talk
The Spell of the Sensuous
Animals & Women
Sistah Vegan
Animal Underworld
And two other books that aren’t directly related to the topics above but are paradigmatically profound: The Web of Life, Belonging: A Culture of Place, and Honoring the Medicine.
Cool! I’ve read Animals & Women and Sistah Vegan, so we could discuss those as well if you’re interested, but they would have to be secondary. Tonight I am having dinner with someone who is planning to read Animal Geographies. I will get in touch with you soon privately. Thanks for the reading ideas.