Hey, are you reading anything interesting these days? I’m looking for a new book and I thought you’d have good taste :)
Hope you’re having a good day :)
Hm, well, I picked up a comic called Sobek by James Stokoe on a trip to London recently. It's one-shot, single issue, but the artwork is ASTONISHINGLY gorgeous and absolutely worth experiencing. Guy renders volume and expression like nobody's business.
I've been reading A Brief History of Khublai Khan by Jonathan Clements, who's a very engaging history writer (his A Brief History of the Samurai is endlessly readable), and I'm slowly working my way through Edward Said's seminal Orientalism, which is one of the definitive studies in the meaning of that term.
Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey is pretty good (although I understand other classicists take some issue with her translation choices) if you want to re-experience that story, and Birth of an Industry by Nicholas Sammond is a really solid history of the animation industry, especially paying attention to the connection between minstrel shows and American race relations and the history of animation.
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schrier is a great bit of reporting on the history of Blizzard and why it has turned out the way it did.
Michelle Mary Lelwica's Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement is a book about the deep and intractable ties between religious conservatism and fitness- and diet-culture.
And of course, there's probably never a time in my life when I'm not re-reading something by Terry Pratchett. Most recently I chewed my way through Small Gods, but if you've never read his Discworld series, my strongest recommendation is to start with either Mort or Monstrous Regiment.
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