Cameron's Book Round-Up, Starting 2024 (Reread-a-Palooza, part 1)

Rereading is a fundamentally different act from the initial reading. By returning to a text with a memory of it, you can discover parts of it that you failed to see on initial — or second, or third — readings. I hesitate to suggest that you “decode” texts when you read them, or something to that effect, but it is my belief that the act of reading is a collaboration between the reader and text, and so the results will be fundamentally different if you are fundamentally different. You can never really “read the same book again” because much like Heraclitus’s river-crosser, you’re not the same person.

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Cameron's Book Round-Up: End of 2023 - Start of 2024

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind — I’ve started a new semester and I’m putting the button on an old job. That hasn’t left a ton of time for reading, but I’ve still managed to finish a few. I’ve bookmarked the next month or so as a “re-read-a-palooza” for myself, revisiting older books that I may need to give more attention to. Given that my commute has increased a bit, this is leading to a fairly different rhythm for a bit.

Cameron's Book Round-Up: The End of 2022

The semester is coming to an end, and I’ve spent a lot of time going to and from campuses — which gives me a lot of time to listen to audio. A lot of these were audio books, but there are a few print novels as well.

Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2

I’m really tired, so I’m just going to get into this. These books are good, but it’s November, and I’m a teacher. November is hell month.

On Forbidden Knowledge: The Big Other and Social Censorship

This makes cosmic horror an interesting genre – what we are looking for in it is something that we tend not to think of as anywhere near desirable: we are looking for someone to assure us that an individual person’s life doesn’t matter. This is not simply a way of understanding cosmic horror, but a way of using cosmic horror as a lens through which to read other events.