Conagher's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:23:43 -0700 60 Conagher's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Conagher 0 currently-reading 4.24 1974 The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1974
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]]> <![CDATA[We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence]]> 71327343 210 David Dark 150648168X Conagher 2 4.01 We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence
author: David Dark
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.01
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Talks in circles, doesn't present (m)any challenges to their own thoughts, slow read, lot of filler
]]> The Last Ranger 63249808 🎧9 hours

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened.


Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape.

When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes it’s just an accident, but the small red ribbon tied to the stake makes him fairly certain that it wasn’t. What begins as an inquiry into a known poacher soon opens into the discovery of a local group of ranchers who have formed an alliance at odds with both the park and with Ren’s responsibility to protect it.

Rife with surprising humor, populated by a cast of extraordinary characters, each drawn to Yellowstone for their own reasons, Peter Heller once again mines the rich vein where our very human impulses play out against the stunning beauty of the natural world.]]> 287 Peter Heller 0593535111 Conagher 2
Besides that, this book offers little in the name of entertainment, rationality, and introspection.

Really the only bright spots of this book is that you can pick it up, put it down, rinse and repeat, as well as dissociate, thru the read, and not miss anything that will be relevant later.

If you find yourself short on energy, practicing misogyny, and love going outdoors, as long as it means you dont have to be outdoors, this may be the perfect read for you.]]> 3.69 2023 The Last Ranger
author: Peter Heller
name: Conagher
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2023
rating: 2
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In short, a shallow look into a self-isolating misogynist, dolled up to look like a role-model protagonist. Thats not the plot of the book, rather the reality of the author.

Besides that, this book offers little in the name of entertainment, rationality, and introspection.

Really the only bright spots of this book is that you can pick it up, put it down, rinse and repeat, as well as dissociate, thru the read, and not miss anything that will be relevant later.

If you find yourself short on energy, practicing misogyny, and love going outdoors, as long as it means you dont have to be outdoors, this may be the perfect read for you.
]]> <![CDATA[The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love]]> 17601
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.]]> 208 bell hooks 0743456084 Conagher 5 Source document 4.38 2003 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
author: bell hooks
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn’t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher’s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind? For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn’t going to be easy.]]> 208 Louis L'Amour 0553281011 Conagher 0 currently-reading 4.04 1969 Conagher
author: Louis L'Amour
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1969
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]]> Between the World and Me 25489625 “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.�
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,� a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
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Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 152 Ta-Nehisi Coates Conagher 0 currently-reading 4.40 2015 Between the World and Me
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Winning in Reverse: Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams―The Bill Lester Story]]> 54396794
Winning in Reverse tells the story of Bill Lester w hose love for racing eventually compelled him to quit his job as an engineer to pursue racing full time. Blessed with natural talent, Bill still had a trifecta of odds against he was black, he was middle aged, and he wasn’t a southerner.

Bill Lester rose above it all, as did his rankings, and he made history time and time again, becoming the first African American to race in NASCAR’s Busch Series, the first to participate in the Nextel Cup and the first to win a Pole Position start in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Whether you are contemplating a career or lifestyle change, challenging social norms, or struggling against prejudice or bigotry, Winning in Reverse is a story for sports fans and readers everywhere about the power of perseverance in the face of adversity.]]> 304 Bill Lester 1643136402 Conagher 0 currently-reading 4.29 Winning in Reverse: Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams―The Bill Lester Story
author: Bill Lester
name: Conagher
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]]> Piranesi 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X Conagher 5 4.22 2020 Piranesi
author: Susanna Clarke
name: Conagher
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Thoroughly enjoyed the mystery, and how delicately each twist and turn manifested
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