Men Explain Things to Me – Rebecca Solnit

Norwegian title: Menn forklarer meg ting Good morning book friends! I've ventured a bit off my normal path of reading and after a recommendation from my sister I decided to pick up this essay. Apart from being an essay I suppose you can view it as a form of important and optional chainmail which is …

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Contemporary Left Antisemitism – David Hirsh

Hi guys! So, I've finished an academic read this time and it's taken me a while due to the fact that I'm not too familiar with current British politics and I'm not trained in Sociology for more than a year. However, this book brought some interesting topic into the light for me, several that I've …

Russia and Us – Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian title: Russland og vi Hello book friends! This time I've finished a REALLY old book! We're talking 1941 here....My main reason for reading this book is its author, which was a quite known and hated figure in Norway in the 1930s and 1940s. To make this explicitly clear: I've read this book out of …

The Brexit Crisis: A Verso Report – Étienne Balibar, William Davies & Akwugo Emejulu

Hi guys! Yet another book for the 'Academic work' category! I have my exam on Thursday and this was one of the required readings. It is a seen exam so I'm free to choose what questions I want to answer, and Brexit seemed like a good idea, although politics really isn't my platform. Now, I'm …

The Sociological Imagination – C. Wright Mills

Hi guys! I think I've read more academic books that weren't directly on my reading list through my courses this year than before. I do it in the hope of getting better grades, but sometimes they are boring or snooze-like in their content. The field of sociology changes with society, which is natural, but it …

The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt

Hi guys! I think this is the most challenging book I've ever finished. I don't know how to describe it so I'm going to borrow Goodreads' blurb: The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to …

The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Hi guys! Reading week continues and I'm appreciating the fact that I have no school. Again I've read a book a little bit outside my normal repertoire, but I think it's interesting and now I'm also reading these books in a special context which makes me think about them in a different way than I …

Pedagogy of the oppressed – Paulo Freire

Hi lovlies! Reading week is upon me and since I want to get really good grades this year I'm reading some extra stuff that might be helpful with my essays for Christmas and spring. Speaking of Christmas; since Halloween is over like overnight Christmas has popped up EVERYWHERE! I went to Costa Coffee today and …