Considered this for an SF course. Self-consciously (judging by the authors' afterword) modeled on lightly amusing SF TV series of the Warehouse 13 type. Also in some kind of relation with the Unicorn Rescue Society kids' book series: homology?
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Andrew Goldstone finished reading The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver …
Andrew Goldstone finished reading Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
From the acclaimed author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Five haunting stories that point a vivid picture of Bombay …
Andrew Goldstone reviewed Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
From the acclaimed author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Five haunting stories that point …
Shrug
I picked this up because I'd heard the detective story ("Kama)" was a good one. It's all right, with an ambiguous non-conclusion it certainly doesn't earn. The other stories are in other genres, and there is a portentous running background motif about communal violence and partition, but I suspect there's less here than meets the eye. There is one very funny moment in "Artha."
Andrew Goldstone reviewed The heart of redness by Zakes Mda
No, it doesn't have anything to do with Heart of Darkness
I liked this a lot. Imaginative-good humored, surprising, confusing in a good way. Trying to pronounce the Xhosa names was fun too.
Andrew Goldstone finished reading The heart of redness by Zakes Mda
Andrew Goldstone finished reading Les armoires vides by Annie Ernaux
Les armoires vides by Annie Ernaux
"Ça suffit d'être une vicieuse, une cachottière, une fille poisseuse et lourde vis-à-vis des copines de classe, légères, libres, pures …
Andrew Goldstone reviewed Les armoires vides by Annie Ernaux
"Ça suffit d'être une vicieuse, une cachottière, une fille poisseuse et lourde vis-à-vis des copines …
La réproduction, dans tous les sens
Je l'ai lu après le prix Nobel, j'suis pas tellement branché, moi. Mais je l'ai choisi parce qu'elle a dit qu'elle a été inspirée par Bourdieu.
Andrew Goldstone reviewed The sources of social power by Michael Mann
A history of everything, but good
Amazing. Civilization as a "caging" process. The histories of some hitherto existing societies are histories of class struggle, which ones, and why. Organizational outflanking.