Read Strays of Ruined Springs

 All the books I read in August and what I thought of them This month I read 8 books. I did not have a pleasant August, but I am not a woman in translation, so not everything is about me. But I did, as you see, read Ion in Greek, so, on that level, I guess I am a woman in translation and everything is about me, actually.  I had a conversation once with one of my erstwhile friends about how the emotional distance between two people is that, when you have a subjective experience, you have to translate your feeling into language and tell it to someone else who then has to translate language into a feeling, and this is why no one can ever understand each other. So I guess, in a way, all of us are women in translation. Except for those of us who are men. I would like to extend my condolences to all men.  I read one book by a man writing in English, one book by a woman writing in English, five books by women writing in foreign languages, and one book by a man in ancient Greek ...

 All the books I read in July and what I thought of them I am releasing my blog post into the void of the internet today on August 9th in order to observe the fake holiday "Book Lovers Day." I would also like to wish my readership a very happy Women in Translation Month (which is to say August). This is another fake celebration, but no one seems to be familiar with foreign books by women, so I have only support for the fake celebration.  In July I read 5 books. First I read Shapes of Love , which is the Y.A. aroace book they are publishing this year (every year there is exactly one, and I read it). It is a very nice book but not groundbreaking at all and does not ask any of the difficult questions about love that I think aroace books should be asking these days. I don't really like when the very reasonable fears that asexual people might have of loneliness and abandonment and missing out on real connection get resolved very easily because it is a legitimately difficult qu...

The only movie I have cared about in years and what I thought of it Me and Tanya went to see the Odyssey movie with Emily at the Coolidge Corner movie theater, and we also went to the Harvard Natural History Museum, and it was all a real hoot [hoot]. I maintain that movies are a bad form of popular media and certainly my least favorite. I will be spoiling the Odyssey poem and the Odyssey movie. The worst thing about the Odyssey movie is that it's incredibly loud and should be quieter. I'm sure they also could have stood to cast some Greek actors in a movie about Greece. The director of the Odyssey movie has, very amusingly, made the Odyssey movie about the Bronze Age collapse. The characters are always worrying about the growing threat from the "people from the sea" (sea people), and then at the end of the movie, Penelope says something along the lines of, "will people sing about our story in the future?" and Odysseus says, "they will have to because th...