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@Sabih Yeeeeeeeeees
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A Canadian (she/they) Japanese to English translator based in Tokyo. Previously a speaker of English and French, now a speaker of English and Japanese.
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32% complete! Taylor Drew has read 17 of 52 books.
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Taylor Drew started reading Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire's award-winning, bestselling Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling …
Taylor Drew reviewed Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
Classic Murderbot
5 stars
This one is pretty interesting because it jumps back before the events of the novel. It's also a completely contained story in novella length--unlike the first four that can standalone but ultimately create a single story.
Made the pacing feel a bit different, but it was still the Murderbot I know and love.
Taylor Drew started reading Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
Time for some more comfort reading 🔥
Taylor Drew replied to Reading Recluse's status
@reading_recluse@c.im I read it in less than an hour, but unless you're extremely excited to read it, it probably can indeed wait lol
Taylor Drew replied to rclayton's status
@rclayton Thanks (and rip Haikasoru)!
Taylor Drew reviewed Harlequin Butterfly by David Boyd
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in …
Compelling ideas, but too short
3 stars
I decided to read this book because the synopsis made it seem like it would be really relevant to translators and other types of wordsmiths. While that assumption wasn't wrong, I think that the length of the work left me feeling a bit unsatisfied with the philosophical concepts that were being explored in the story.
I don't think that stories necessarily need to provide explicit answers and many excellent stories that I love don't, but this one just felt too short to even give me enough time to begin to chew on what I was reading and contemplate the characters and their actions.
Might try to read some of this authors other work in Japanese, since I don't think anything else is published in English, to get a better grip on the author.
Taylor Drew started reading Harlequin Butterfly by David Boyd
Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe, David Boyd
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of languages, perfect for …
Taylor Drew reviewed Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the …
Witty and somehow relatable
5 stars
It feels kind of weird to suggest that a book about how history has kind of invented this period in time called the Renaissance is relatable, but this book ended up being extremely relatable. I ended up listening to the audiobook (a whopping 30-hour beast) and regularly found myself smiling and chuckling along as I did my daily commute even though I knew and still mostly nothing about the time period or really anything about Italy. I genuinely had never heard of most of the people who were talked about in this book, which I think is a pretty clear indication about how interestingly the information is laid out--though it would certainly be a nightmare for anyone who requires events in time to be explained in chronological order.
More than that though, I think what was really great about this book and something I wasn't expecting was about how hopeful …
It feels kind of weird to suggest that a book about how history has kind of invented this period in time called the Renaissance is relatable, but this book ended up being extremely relatable. I ended up listening to the audiobook (a whopping 30-hour beast) and regularly found myself smiling and chuckling along as I did my daily commute even though I knew and still mostly nothing about the time period or really anything about Italy. I genuinely had never heard of most of the people who were talked about in this book, which I think is a pretty clear indication about how interestingly the information is laid out--though it would certainly be a nightmare for anyone who requires events in time to be explained in chronological order.
More than that though, I think what was really great about this book and something I wasn't expecting was about how hopeful it is for our now. Many of the things the author brought up are struggles that we continue to have in different ways. Palmer spends a lot of time actually telling us not to push our own current values into time periods where those values didn't exist. At the same time though, we're also reminded that time isn't static. The people living then struggled just as we do now. We have progressed, but that doesn't necessarily guarantee that everything is improved and superior. But the hopeful bit is that progress is an ongoing and never ending thing. The scary of our now doesn't have to be forever and in fact almost certainly will not be.
Taylor Drew started reading ジャクソンひとり by 安堂 ホセ
着ていたTシャツに隠されたコードから過激な動画が流出し、職場で嫌疑をかけられたジャクソンは3人の男に出会う。痛快な知恵で生き抜く若者たちの鮮烈なる逆襲劇！ 第59回文藝賞受賞作。
第168回芥川賞候補作！
第59回文藝賞受賞 衝撃のデビュー作！ 東京に暮らすブラックミックスたちが企む鮮やかな逆襲劇
「実際に生きてるってこと。盗用したポルノごっこじゃなくて」 アフリカのどこかと日本のハーフで、昔モデルやってて、ゲイらしい――。 スポーツブランドのスタッフ専用ジムで整体師をするジャクソンについての噂。 ある日、彼のTシャツから偶然QRコードが読み取られ、そこにはブラックミックスの男が裸で磔にされた姿が映されていた。 誰もが一目で男をジャクソンだと判断し、本人が否定しても信じない。 仕方なく独自の調査を始めたジャクソンは、動画の男は自分だと主張する3人の男に出会い――。
I finally started this book just in time for the Japanese publishing equivalent of the trade paperback to be releasing in two months! Better late than never I guess! 😆
Taylor Drew wants to read The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls
The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls
A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners
Avoiding theoretical debates and clichéd …
Taylor Drew replied to Jim Rion's status
@jdrion Oh, really? That would be lovely since it seems like it might actually be a bit of a struggle to get my hands on it 😅
Taylor Drew replied to Jim Rion's status
@jdrion I really want to read this too!
Taylor Drew replied to Reading Recluse's status
@reading_recluse@c.im I mean I guess I should probably pretend to be working, but it's not like they don't know I have nothing to do and trying to distract myself other ways that are more visibly acceptable (play games related to the game project I'm part of) gave me tendinitis so...lol
Taylor Drew replied to Reading Recluse's status
@reading_recluse@c.im It's not even 300 pages long and I was helped by the fact that I haven't had anything to do at work lately. I'm not being given tasks, so I just sat at my desk reading this instead. My neck isn't too happy about it, but it was a very pleasant and thoughtful way to pass the time instead haha