STUFF I AM READING (II):\
So, I finished a few of the books on my last blog. In brief, Millar's book was good, but finished quite badly (I don't think he knew how to end it, to be honest); Killing Castro was mediocre pulp; and Hiding man was pretty good.
So, new stuff:
SHARK FIN SOUP AND SICHUAN PEPPER (Fuschia Dunlop). A companion volume of sorts to her two well-received cookbooks. I mean no offense to my English friends, but only an Englishwoman of her class (upper-crust, don't you know) could have written such a curiously sexless and unemotional book about living in China and learning about the country. She's rapturous about the food, but blandly indifferent to just about everything else. As such, she comes off as one of those fey Victorian ethnographers, parachuted into the Empire's hinterlands. Worth skimming, and perhaps skipping.
A CORNER OF A FORGOTTEN FIELD: (Ramachandra Gucha) Speaking of Empire, here's the colonised views of a very English, class-oriented game. That would be cricket. I'm assuming that this volume will eventually end up in StrongBhoy's hands as he is the only other person I know that even follows the sport over here, so I won't spoil it except to say that is a good read and quite fascinating.
SELECTED ESSAYS: MONTAIGNE. Bit of light reading here from a Poket Library edition I found for 50 at the public library sale.
So, I finished a few of the books on my last blog. In brief, Millar's book was good, but finished quite badly (I don't think he knew how to end it, to be honest); Killing Castro was mediocre pulp; and Hiding man was pretty good.
So, new stuff:
SHARK FIN SOUP AND SICHUAN PEPPER (Fuschia Dunlop). A companion volume of sorts to her two well-received cookbooks. I mean no offense to my English friends, but only an Englishwoman of her class (upper-crust, don't you know) could have written such a curiously sexless and unemotional book about living in China and learning about the country. She's rapturous about the food, but blandly indifferent to just about everything else. As such, she comes off as one of those fey Victorian ethnographers, parachuted into the Empire's hinterlands. Worth skimming, and perhaps skipping.
A CORNER OF A FORGOTTEN FIELD: (Ramachandra Gucha) Speaking of Empire, here's the colonised views of a very English, class-oriented game. That would be cricket. I'm assuming that this volume will eventually end up in StrongBhoy's hands as he is the only other person I know that even follows the sport over here, so I won't spoil it except to say that is a good read and quite fascinating.
SELECTED ESSAYS: MONTAIGNE. Bit of light reading here from a Poket Library edition I found for 50 at the public library sale.
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drake:
Bah! How dare he. Hip hop??
smythe:
Little House!