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Wednesday Reading Meme April 17 2024
Apr. 17th, 2024 08:30 pmPersonal life stuff: ACL surgery went well! I was on two crutches until earlier this week, when I have been granted license for ONE crutch and a brace.
What I’ve Read:
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed – Hugo Nominee for Best Graphic Novel (originally published in Arabic in 2017) – Compassionate and cutting – this book is the stories of four people connected by three wishes, sold from a kiosk on the street of Cairo in 2017. It’s more scifi than magical realism – the wishes are licensed and registered and possessing one gets at least one character in major legal trouble – but the book is very interested in showing us an intimate portrait of the person who holds the wish and what they would use it for. I loved each of these characters – they are given space to show depth and contradictions and to grapple with the potential impact each wish represents to their future. I read it broken up by each person’s story, and it is excellent writing that reinforces the fascinating look the author is showing us of this version of modern Egypt. There’s hard look at wealth inequality, there’s conflict around religious ethics, there’s someone facing the end of their life and making peace with their choices – it’s really good stuff and I really enjoyed it.
What I’m Reading:
The Darkness Outside Us – about 30% - slightly horror? gay! Maybe some romance?
City of Miracles – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club - I’ll probably technically finish this before midnight, but I didn’t finish it in time for book club.
Soulstar - CL Polk -static
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – about 23% - No movement
The 99% Invisible podcast has special episodes on the chapters along this schedule, which I am trying to keep up with:
Reading schedule under the cut
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Children of Time (Xing book club)
Hugo Nominees:
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Bea Wolf
Saga, Vol. 11
The Witches of World War II
Translation State
Some Desperate Glory
Starter Villain
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Saint of Bright Doors
“Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition”
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay”
“On the Fox Roads”
“One Man’s Treasure”
“The Year Without Sunshine”
I AM AI
Rose/House
“Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet”
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Mammoths at the Gates
Thornhedge
“Seeds of Mercury”
The Culture: The Drawings
A City on Mars
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller,
All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
“Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松,
“The Sound of Children Screaming”
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”
“The Mausoleum’s Children”
What I’ve Read:
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed – Hugo Nominee for Best Graphic Novel (originally published in Arabic in 2017) – Compassionate and cutting – this book is the stories of four people connected by three wishes, sold from a kiosk on the street of Cairo in 2017. It’s more scifi than magical realism – the wishes are licensed and registered and possessing one gets at least one character in major legal trouble – but the book is very interested in showing us an intimate portrait of the person who holds the wish and what they would use it for. I loved each of these characters – they are given space to show depth and contradictions and to grapple with the potential impact each wish represents to their future. I read it broken up by each person’s story, and it is excellent writing that reinforces the fascinating look the author is showing us of this version of modern Egypt. There’s hard look at wealth inequality, there’s conflict around religious ethics, there’s someone facing the end of their life and making peace with their choices – it’s really good stuff and I really enjoyed it.
What I’m Reading:
The Darkness Outside Us – about 30% - slightly horror? gay! Maybe some romance?
City of Miracles – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club - I’ll probably technically finish this before midnight, but I didn’t finish it in time for book club.
Soulstar - CL Polk -static
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – about 23% - No movement
The 99% Invisible podcast has special episodes on the chapters along this schedule, which I am trying to keep up with:
Reading schedule under the cut
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Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Children of Time (Xing book club)
Hugo Nominees:
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Bea Wolf
Saga, Vol. 11
The Witches of World War II
Translation State
Some Desperate Glory
Starter Villain
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Saint of Bright Doors
“Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition”
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay”
“On the Fox Roads”
“One Man’s Treasure”
“The Year Without Sunshine”
I AM AI
Rose/House
“Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet”
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Mammoths at the Gates
Thornhedge
“Seeds of Mercury”
The Culture: The Drawings
A City on Mars
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller,
All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
“Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松,
“The Sound of Children Screaming”
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”
“The Mausoleum’s Children”
