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Apollo

apollo@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 8 months ago

Speculative fiction and comics enthusiast.

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Apollo's books

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2025 Reading Goal

78% complete! Apollo has read 41 of 52 books.

Jeremy Dauber: American Comics (Paperback, 2022, W. W. Norton & Company)

A Dry, Thorough History

Dauber has assembled a history of comics in the United States that is as thorough as a pop history book can be expected to be. The presentation can be a bit colourless at times, and there were moments when the inclusion of certain topics felt unnecessarily late in the text, but overall it held together impressively.

Yeong-Gwang You: The Rainfall Market (Michael Joseph)

On the first day of the monsoon an old ramshackle building appears. This is The …

Simple, Unchallenging Magic Realism

The core of this book is a simple coming-of-age story with the message "the grass isn't always greener on the other side" that is given some life and character through magic realism and urban fantasy, but there's not much more than that simplicity to be found here. The characters can be odd and sometimes endearing, but there's too little to hold onto beyond that.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Laozi: Tao Te Ching (1998, Shambhala)

No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …

An Approachable Translation

I first read Le Guin's version of the Tao Te Ching years ago and it was a formative text for me. Revisiting it today with a better understanding of her approaches and philosophy allowed me to appreciate it much more. She kept the text simple and direct, and it's easy to take in the meaning without attempts at needlessly flowery language.