Read Strays of Ruined Springs

 All the books I read in March and April and what I thought of them I actually cannot read (I could read in March) and I think it might be bad for my mental well being. I can't believe that now is the time that I am inexplicably overcome with a burning desire to blog (I have to do so many finals). I don't want to do any kind of formatting of the books and you are all just going to have to live with that.  In February, the only book I read was Lolita , but I can't talk too much on the internet about how much I love Lolita because I think that makes me look bad. I just really like the setting; I'm not kidding.  In March I only read books that were vaguely classical, except for Ada or Ardor which is another Vladimir Nabokov book about cousins who like each other way too much and also they find out that they're siblings. This book is so aggressively Nabokovian and bro really ignored everything his editor told him, so the book is too long and really weird even though no...

This blog post is my final project for my philosophy class I hope my readership will forgive this departure from the sort of thing I usually write about. I read two books about animal rights and animal welfare, Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer and The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan, and I am going to compare them because Peter Singer is a utilitarian and Tom Regan was, as far as I can tell, not really a Kantian but at least a deontologist.  Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan ⭐⭐ I can see that The Case for Animal Rights has a purpose and I'm not upset that it exists, but Animal Liberation Now is definitely a better book from every perspective unless you are very erudite. I think Peter Singer's book is really successful in presenting the subject matter to an audience that might not have thought about it very much (or might have some subconscious resistance to veganism because no one likes being made to feel guilty about th...