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Wednesday reading time
Sep. 4th, 2019 07:39 pm True story: I forgot it was Wednesday until the Wednesday Frog popped up on Facebook, but by then I was almost at work.
Just finished: Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, by Greg Younging. My initial impression stands—it is useful and thoughtful, but it's a style guide, and is about as gripping as any other style guide.
Currently reading: Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney. This was another "randomly scan the library and pick something that sounds interesting." The first paragraph has its protagonist, Jed, a middle-class young black gay man in Chicago who's just out of rehab, travelling to Berlin in the 1980s because he's read too much Christopher Isherwood. I find this a highly relatable reason to go to Berlin. This book appears to have no plot whatsoever but quite a bit of nerdy writing about architecture and music. So much architecture porn. It rivals The Alienist for the amount of prose devoted to architecture and is almost as gay. I'm enjoying it so far.
Just finished: Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, by Greg Younging. My initial impression stands—it is useful and thoughtful, but it's a style guide, and is about as gripping as any other style guide.
Currently reading: Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney. This was another "randomly scan the library and pick something that sounds interesting." The first paragraph has its protagonist, Jed, a middle-class young black gay man in Chicago who's just out of rehab, travelling to Berlin in the 1980s because he's read too much Christopher Isherwood. I find this a highly relatable reason to go to Berlin. This book appears to have no plot whatsoever but quite a bit of nerdy writing about architecture and music. So much architecture porn. It rivals The Alienist for the amount of prose devoted to architecture and is almost as gay. I'm enjoying it so far.
