Recent reading
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luzulaThis post has an obvious theme. I had no particular prior interest in Rosa Luxemburg, but Nina Björk who is an interesting Swedish feminist and socialist writer wrote a book about her, so why not. And then there was a graphic novel, so why not read that too.
Drömmen om det röda. Rosa Luxemburg: socialism, språk och kärlek by Nina Björk (The Dream of the Red. Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism, Language and Love)
This was a bit of a mixed bag. There was fifty pages of Marxism 101, which, yawn. My favorite part of the book is where Björk goes off on various tangents and reflections of her own related to things in Luxemburg's life and in wider society. And also I learned interesting things about German history before, during, and after WWI.
Red Rosa by Kate Evans
Graphic novel biography. A bit too much repetition to read this right after the first book, maybe? But I liked it.
Drömmen om det röda. Rosa Luxemburg: socialism, språk och kärlek by Nina Björk (The Dream of the Red. Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism, Language and Love)
This was a bit of a mixed bag. There was fifty pages of Marxism 101, which, yawn. My favorite part of the book is where Björk goes off on various tangents and reflections of her own related to things in Luxemburg's life and in wider society. And also I learned interesting things about German history before, during, and after WWI.
Red Rosa by Kate Evans
Graphic novel biography. A bit too much repetition to read this right after the first book, maybe? But I liked it.
