the second quarter of 2019 in books

I haven't posted here in a while, though luckily for only the best of reasons: namely that I am free of academia for the summer and wolfing down as many books as I can get my hands on, in between eating a lot of Twin Cities-specific food and doing a lot of Twin Cities-specific things that I cannot get and do in the Southern hellhole to which I've consigned myself. (It's really not that bad, but sometimes it is, actually, that bad.) Nonetheless, I do miss posting about what I've been reading, so I'm hoping to use this as a kind of reset and then start in on Reading Wednesdays again next week. We will, however, see how long that resolution lasts. 

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