We should read a book. Like Together. And then talk about it. Like Together.
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Send me something!Hm, this could be fun
Wait, isn't that only 10 books? Are two others going to be added? I'm fine if we read 10 or if we read 12 but confused.Well, thank you to everyone who sent me a list of books! There wasn't a lot of crossover. BUT, there was crossover!
So for now here are two books that will be on our reading list for 2021!
The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
I will be posting a a few lists of 8 other books in the near future that people can vote on and then we can start at the beginning of next month! At least one book from every person's list will be in each list. I hope you are excited as I am!
This translation, for example, was completed during the first months of my son's life. Parenting a baby is listening to someone use a language in which certain sounds mean a slew of things, and one must rely heavily on context to gain clarity; a language in which there is no way to translate accurately the ancient sound that means "hungry," because, to the preverbal speaker, the sound means and is used to signal a compendium of things, something more like "belly hurt-longing-breast-empty mouth-bottle-swallow-milk-help."
A "perfect" translation would require the translator to time travel fantastically rather than historically - more Narnia than Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Just checking, "Black Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse" from list 1, isn't the title "Black Sun"? That's what Google finds. Just want to make sure that it isn't another, more obscure book.
So for now here are two books that will be on our reading list for 2021!
The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Only one more day to vote!