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14% complete! nogoodnik has read 5 of 35 books.

started reading Ṭevyeh der milkhiḳer by Sholem Aleichem (Steven Spielberg digital Yiddish library -- no. 10428)

Sholem Aleichem: Ṭevyeh der milkhiḳer (Yiddish language, 1958, Ḥinekh deparṭmenṭ bay der Ashkenazisher ḳehileh "Nidḥe Yiśroel" in Meḳsiḳe) No rating

China Miéville: Embassytown (Hardcover, 2011, Ballantine Books)

In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, …

3.75

A book I should have liked more than I did; so much interesting stuff here that’s right up my alley about the use and genesis of language, linguistic and cultural contact, how species think and how we process the world, alien intelligence, the self, language as a tool for cognition, how colonization changes a community, etc, etc, etc. But for all of its gifts, I wanted it to be more gripping than it was! Excellent worldbuilding and use of terminology both new and old, a detailed setting, and lots of other wonderful things going for it; a worthy read nonetheless.