Re: [Silk] SIlkist's Annual Book Recommendations Thread (2024 edition)

I cannot believe how long this year feels, because my recommendation is a book that I thought I actually read last year, but it was in fact January 2024. It's Doppelganger by Naomi Klein , which has defied description, since it is apparent

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+1 to ‘Thing Knowledge,’ which I read a couple of years ago. From the perspective of TK, theories and texts will be ‘Nothing Knowledge?’ A couple of my recommendations: • Marcia Bjornerud’s “Timefulness”. Geology meets History meets Philosophy. • Ed Yong’s “An Immense World.” Meditation on the s

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I noticed this on Cory's blog, and since he hasn't posted it here, I am doing so. All the books he reviewed this year. https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/#2024-in-review -- Silklist mailing list Silklist@lists.digeratus.in https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist

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I'm mostly a sci-fi and history buff. Among the books that I've read this year apart from the many others in the fiction category, the ones that really blew my mind are the The three body problem series. As soon as the show was released, I got the entire set and read them all. I loved the way Cixin

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Hello Silk listers, I trust this email finds you well and in good literary spirits. 🌟 This is the perfect conversation for my current and fascinating intellectual pursuit—my first dissertation—which explores the profound relationship between literature and personal growth. Specifically, I am delv

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Nice lists. I’m not as heavy a reader as you folks looks like, but a couple from me: Selection of Byung-Chul Han. I read Burnout Society, Psychopolitics, and Transparency Society. (they’re short, monograph length, so 3=1). Kinda hate-read since I’m averse to Heideggerian tendencies, but stimulatin

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This year I was blown away by Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, published in 2022. Like David Copperfield, this is a novel that brings to life conditions in Southern Appalachia - poverty, neglect, addiction - in ways that neither academic nor journalistic writing could. H-Pop : The Secreti

Re: [Silk] SIlkist's Annual Book Recommendations Thread (2024 edition)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 11:01 AM Yeddanapudi Radhika wrote: > Yes, I've noticed that problem in translation. For example, my American > slang tends to be 80s high-school slang because I spent a couple of years > in the early 80s in California. I've learned through experience that > everytime I se

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Yes, I've noticed that problem in translation. For example, my American slang tends to be 80s high-school slang because I spent a couple of years in the early 80s in California. I've learned through experience that everytime I see Madrid slang it cannot be translated to that 80s slang which has not

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 10:18 AM Thaths wrote: >> I note that this has been translated by former silklister Kalyan >> Raman, for those old listmembers who remember him. > > > And a very good translation it was. I think Ashokamitthran himself wrote a > column in English for the Illustrated Weekly

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 9:39 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 7:22 AM Thaths via Silklist > wrote: > > > Fourteen Years with Boss by Ashokamitthiran > > A brisk read. Popular modernist Tamil writer's memoir about his years > working in PR for Chennai's Gemini Studios in the 50's

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I need it in the Canadian Pacific :-) -- Silklist mailing list Silklist@lists.digeratus.in https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist

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conversation Subject: Re: [Silk] SIlkist's Annual Book Recommendations Thread (2024 edition) Thanks for the tip, Tim. But no, I have not found good biryani here. My husband and I made an abbreviated version a few years ago after returning from Hyderabad...six hours. El lun., 25 nov. 2024 9:28

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Thanks for the tip, Tim. But no, I have not found good biryani here. My husband and I made an abbreviated version a few years ago after returning from Hyderabad...six hours. El lun., 25 nov. 2024 9:28 a. m., Tim Bray escribió: > On Nov 25, 2024 at 12:08:03 AM, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist <

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On Nov 25, 2024 at 12:08:03 AM, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > I will check out this book you suggest. I cannot get biryani in Vancouver > sadly so that will have to wait till my next visit. > Thank you. > Radhika > Indian Roti Kitchen on Cambie sells a d

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On 11/25/24 03:08, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist wrote: I cannot get biryani in Vancouver sadly so that will have to wait till my next visit. Have you tried Hyderabad Biryani House on Fraser Street? Or have they toned it down too far to match Canadian spice tolerance? Cheers, / Bruce / --

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interesting question Huda...bizarrely cinnamon, fried onions, rosewater and some tangy tartness come to mind. Plus mirchi. Am I confused? yes! At home my mom is vegetarian so she never really experimented with meat and everything I learned about meat dishes came from restaurant food and occasionall

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Hyderabadi here. With a mum who my father called “an artist in the kitchen”. It took me ten years to squeeze the biryani recipe out of her. But I have a question for you. What flavours/textures did you single out as particularly Hyderabadi, that you want to learn to cook? I ask because there are m

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: Yeddanapudi Radhika Subject: Re: [Silk] SIlkist's Annual Book Recommendations Thread (2024 edition) I really want to learn how to make Hyderabadi Biryani...and generally more Hyderabadi dishes. Any suggestions on good books? -- Silklist mailing list Silklist@lists.digeratus.in

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I really want to learn how to make Hyderabadi Biryani...and generally more Hyderabadi dishes. Any suggestions on good books? > -- Silklist mailing list Silklist@lists.digeratus.in https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist

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Yes, that's it! On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 1:17 pm Thaths, wrote: > Charles, is it this one > ? > > Thaths > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM Charles Haynes via Silklist < > silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > >> I don't keep

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Charles, is it this one ? Thaths On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM Charles Haynes via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > I don't keep track of my reading in any systematic way (or any way really) > but I'm right

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 7:22 AM Thaths via Silklist wrote: > Fourteen Years with Boss by Ashokamitthiran > A brisk read. Popular modernist Tamil writer's memoir about his years working > in PR for Chennai's Gemini Studios in the 50's and 60's. I note that this has been translated by former silk

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I don't keep track of my reading in any systematic way (or any way really) but I'm right in the middle of reading "The Food of Northern Thailand" which is half cookbook half culinary exploration. Northern Thai food is very different from central (Bangkok) and North Eastern (Issan/Esarn [think green

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Also, I don't keep track of my reading in a systematic fashion, but one book that stands out in my memory this year is "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" by Cat Bohannon. Udhay -- Silklist mailing list Silklist@lists.digeratus.in https://mailman.panix.com/listin

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Hi Radhika, On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM Yeddanapudi Radhika wrote: > Here are some of the books from this year in no particular order: > > > 1. The Liberation of Sita - Refreshing take rescuing Sita from remaining > forever enshrined as the most boring, most submissive character in world > m

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> > Here are some of the books from this year in no particular order: 1. The Liberation of Sita - Refreshing take rescuing Sita from remaining forever enshrined as the most boring, most submissive character in world mythology. It takes a Telugu woman! 2. To the Lighthouse - I don't think I can h