sophist_monster finished reading Earthlings by 村田沙耶香
Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. Together with her cousin Yuu, she spends her summers …
Stunning. This one is gonna stick with me for a good long while.
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sophist_monster started reading A Brief History of Japan : Samurai, Shogun and Zen by Jonathan Clements
Been reading lots of Japanese fiction lately. Needed a primer, as it were.
sophist_monster wants to read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the …
despite Jim's strong recommendation
sophist_monster finished reading Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb
Batman: Dark Victory is a 14-part American comic book limited series (including a #0 issue) …
Decided to re-read 20 years after the first time.
sophist_monster finished reading Catwoman by Jeph Loeb
Decided to re-read 20 years after the first time.
sophist_monster finished reading Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
Decided to re-read 20 years after the first time.
sophist_monster started reading The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
Thanks Jim!
sophist_monster started reading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him …
re-reading at long lost. Inspired to re-read as I am teaching VanderMeer's Authority, which has some nods and resonances.
sophist_monster reviewed The Future of Invention by John Muckelbauer
A Banger
5 stars
This book rewired my brain when it first came out. Still does again.
sophist_monster started reading The Future of Invention by John Muckelbauer
Haven't read this one in a while. I am enjoying seeing from where I gathered many of my academic orientations.
sophist_monster reviewed Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes
With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last …
Stunning
5 stars
MacInnes’ descriptive language always draws me in. It’s hypnotic at times, but in this novel I think it’s used deceptively. The ability to describe exquisitely is treated ambivalently. The twinned (or here married) practices of science and technology and their descriptive power are held in tension until the end.
sophist_monster reviewed You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant by Brad Neely
A farcical biography of Ulysses S. Grant, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is a …
Incredible!
5 stars
I honestly don’t know what I have done in this life to deserve this Neely book on Grant. It’s like someone peered into my soul and then produced what it most desired.
sophist_monster finished reading Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #3)
From the publisher---
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied …
re-reading for Absolution.
sophist_monster started reading Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series …
Continuing my re-read.
sophist_monster finished reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Better each time I read it.