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I FINALLY finished these dudes. >_<  I started them at the end of February, but... depression and full reroots and all.

Top is Yukawa Manabu, also known as Detective Galileo. Below is Kusanagi Shunpei, the Tokyo detective who’s actually working the cases.  Yukawa is totally my type of character, and I like that Kusanagi is not a bumbling cop, he is just faced with really clever criminals. They have a great chemistry.

This year I decided I was going to try to read more non-American/non-European authors... and mystery novels are kinda my jam.  So anyway, these guys are from a series of novels by Keigo Higashino... and though there are like 10 novels in Japanese, only three are (and probably will be) translated into English.  The books are pretty interesting because they are not so much as whodunits as howdunits, where you know who the murderer is from the beginning but there’s a lot to suss out in terms of the motivation and the method. The Devotion of Suspect X is the first one, and it’s kind of depressing, but very clever; it was so popular that it’s been made into movies in Japan, Korea, and China.  There was also a Detective Galileo television series in Japan, but it’s really badly acted... and they seem to have swapped in junior detective Utsumi in place of Kusanagi in favor of shoehorning in an awkward love thing.  (I love Utsumi in the books, but she’s not a genki flustered type of character, she has serious Cool Lesbian energy... and I feel like book-Yukawa has a very ace feel.  Or some sort of strange backstory with Kusanagi, who is in love with every woman he meets.)

Anyway, I recommend the books, and I recommend the author.  I started reading another series of his with a different detective, and that one was pretty awesome too!  

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Double Arch, Pablo Ruiz García / Deadvlei, Stefan Liebermann / Desert Nights, Peter Zelinka / Elemental, Miles Morgan,

Capture the Atlas Best Milky Way Photos

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The Archer by Miles Morgan

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Alumni Spotlight: One Liberal Arts Education, Two Career Paths

Check out the first of our new Alumni Spotlights, featuring Sarah Koenig, host of the podcast Serial, and Miles Morgan, a teacher at the prestigious British boarding school Eton College.

Photo: Sandy Honig (left) Matthew Mowbray (right)

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Blink of an Eye by bruceomori