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For 2024 I am going to write for at least 400 hours and read at least 36 books. I am going to do some of that writing on here to make it a little easier for me.

Here are the books I'm hoping to read in January:

Network Effect (Murderbot 5 by Martha Wells)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Sula (Toni Morrison)

Red Square (Martin Cruz Smith)

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels)

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

If this list seems really eclectic to you... it is. It's insane. Right now I'm interested in looking at politics from a space where I'm really deep in with some of the work or ideologies people are throwing around as buzzwords.

I also uh, really like science fiction and detective stories.

So my goal here is to kind of wedge my interests to make some more difficult work a little easier to digest (keep in mind that this is an all year goal - engels and sinclair aren't reeeeally tough, 'Socialism: Utopian...' may be less than 100 pages).

I've really liked the other murderbot books, and a friend of mine recommended Gideon to me because we both like 40k. I like the other Arkady Renko books a LOT so Red Square is a little treat for me mixed in here. Sula is an entirely arbitraty pick because I know Toni Morrison is a very good and important writer. Socialism is in there cause I read the communist manifesto last year, and The Jungle is in there because I have strong opinions about modern journalism and it's an important and pioneering book - so I want to kind of explore my own thoughts.

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