Belated Reading Wednesday
Jul. 27th, 2023 10:05 amWhat Have You Finished Reading:
This is How Your Win the Time War - Amar al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Frankly sublime. Unlike some bitter reviewers, I did not "see the plot twist coming" and I enjoyed it all the more for that. But "plot twist" is saying a bit much as this is a novel mostly about its own prose. I discovered that this is an "epistolary novel" and also that I like this style. This gives the story rhythm a kind of tennis match quality to it, which is nice. Volley after volley...
What Are You Trying to Read:
I have borrowed an Agatha Christie novel which /may/ feature Kurds (the action happens in Mosul). I've only ever read Christie in French translation, as a teenager, so I'm looking forward to see what I'm going to think of her writing in the original at an age where I can grok a bit more from her writing process.
But first, I need to attend to Tyler Shipley's Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ioklopon, you were asking for a syllabus; I'll see if I can share it, (he's been a bit restrictive about what we can do) but this is the book that he teaches.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world
This is How Your Win the Time War - Amar al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Frankly sublime. Unlike some bitter reviewers, I did not "see the plot twist coming" and I enjoyed it all the more for that. But "plot twist" is saying a bit much as this is a novel mostly about its own prose. I discovered that this is an "epistolary novel" and also that I like this style. This gives the story rhythm a kind of tennis match quality to it, which is nice. Volley after volley...
What Are You Trying to Read:
I have borrowed an Agatha Christie novel which /may/ feature Kurds (the action happens in Mosul). I've only ever read Christie in French translation, as a teenager, so I'm looking forward to see what I'm going to think of her writing in the original at an age where I can grok a bit more from her writing process.
But first, I need to attend to Tyler Shipley's Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination.
ioklopon, you were asking for a syllabus; I'll see if I can share it, (he's been a bit restrictive about what we can do) but this is the book that he teaches.https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world