#i also didnt realize i only read nonfiction or memoirs last month!!! they were all SUCH heavy books wow...

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what i read in april 2023 💖

(entries marked with an * indicate favourites!)

ONLINE ARTICLES:

*My Decade of Temporary Homes by Rachel Heng | Esquire

Calvinism and the American Conception of Evil by Douglas Giles, PhD | Medium

*How Snails Cross Vast Oceans by Thom van Dooren | Nautilus

J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep by Hua Hsu | The New Yorker

*Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country by Madison Pauly | Mother Jones

*‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city by Viola Zhou | Rest Of World

The Giant Arcs That May Dwarf Everything In the Cosmos by Jasmin Fox-Skelly | BBC

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing by Charles Platt | WIRED

Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way by Lyndie Chiou | Nautilus

How a Chicago Dive Bar Exposed Corruption and Changed Journalism by Paula Mejia | Atlas Obscura

A Brief (But Complicated) History of Coffee and Tea by Michele Debczak | Mental Floss

Why the Animal Kingdom Is Full of Con Artists by Elizabeth Kolbert | The New Yorker

The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far by D. T. Max | The New Yorker

America Doesn’t Know Tofu by George Stiffman | Asterisk Mag

He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs by Paul Solotaroff | Rolling Stone

The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI by Jacob Pagano | Narratively

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb by Joshua Sokol | Quanta Magazine

The Gambler Who Beat Roulette by By Kit Chellel | Bloomberg

How Susan Kare Designed User-Friendly Icons for the First Macintosh by David Kindy | Smithsonian Mag

A Turkish Bookshop's New Chapter On a Remote Island by Alexandra De Cramer | Courier

BOOKS:

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (2009)

*Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang (2021)

*When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016)

#i read a lot more articles than i remembered omg :o and fewer books than i thought ||orz #i also didnt realize i only read nonfiction or memoirs last month!!! they were all SUCH heavy books wow... #anyways!!! i cant believe i remembered to do this <3 #reading list #🎆.txt #will anyone care about this?? mayhaps........