I'm not dead yet
I think i’ll go for a walk
It’s been many months so here’s just a list of books worth reading, in no particular order.
1/ proto - how one ancient language went global
2/ The art of not being governed
3/ Grand Hotel Europa - it’s hard to get the Wes Anderson imagery out of your head but its worth it.
4/ Revolusi
6/ The Friend and most of the books by Zander
8/ Shanghai (joseph Kanon). All of the books about shanghai with Asian protagonists are, y’know, better. But this is a good one with descriptions so rich i could picture the street corners.
9/ I went on a Japanese detective / cozy mystery binge with: Kotaro Isaka & Keigo Higashino, Fuminori Nakamura
10 / The Mission Song - This is an older novel but at the moment I finished it, violence kicked off exactly where the book is placed.
11 / power and progress
12/ The Torqued Man: I don’t know what the hell this novel is but it’s great
13/ the savage detectives. 1000 pages on misspent youth, but somehow beautiful
14/ The Art Thief
15/ Burma Sahib
16/ History of the world in 6 plagues & Pathogenesis: a histroy of the world in 8 plagues. Somehow these are two wildly different books and both good.
18/ Second Sister