Dec 23 Reading

I'll have more time this month maybe?

1. NYer 10/23/23. Need to catch up.
2. NYer 11/6/2023. Remnick's Letter from Israel
3. NYer 11/27/23. New font for bylines? How dare they! New Haven pizza? Intrigued!
4. NYer 9/18/23. Emily Wilson (translator) is super annoying.
5. Babel by R.F. Kuang. 3 complaints and 3 concessions. Complaints 1)scene constructions 2)flat characters 3)anachronistic dialogue Concessions 3)It's well researched2)It's polemic, so 1)the magic system is cool
6. Lost Time by Jozek Czapski
7. Fante Bukowski by Noah van Scriver
8. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.
9. NYer 12/11/23. John Adams reviewing book on memorials in music, includes discussion of his 9/11 memorial ("On the Transmigration of Souls")
10. How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton. The simple lesson is don't read great literature with your eyes, see the world with their eyes. 
11. The Dark Design (Riverworld v. 3). I mentally steampunk it as I read along, changing batteries to wood-fired boilers etc.
12. NYer 11/20/23. Sheila Heti wrote "According to Alice" with help of AI. It starts "My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy's butt."