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August 26, 2018
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The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos

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Here’s a very brief synopsis of this book, certainly one of the more obscure I’ve come across lately: “Set in the German Democratic Republic of the early 1970s, The Life…

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August 26, 2018
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Gaudy Bauble

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This book sounds delightfully bonkers, fairly abstruse, and difficult to review. From reading other reviews, I get the sense immediately that this book provokes strong opinions, and perhaps a good…

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August 26, 2018
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Barley Patch

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A sort-of novel, sort-of autobiographical exploration, at once exploration of the writing process and excavation of persistent imagined images, from an author “regarded by many as Australia’s most innovative writer…

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August 8, 2018
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The Nature and Art of Workmanship

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A fairly short book (fewer than 150 pages) that’s apparently a classic, at least of the cult variety, about workmanship, skill, craft, and design. Pye “…proposes a new theory of…

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August 8, 2018
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Watchmaking

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A very big book, filled with incredible detail. An in-depth look at the practice of watchmaking. A classic — “one of the definitive texts on horology”. It’s filled with lots…

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July 2, 2018
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No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

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No Time to Spare is a collection of Le Guin’s blog posts, which cover a range of topics: aging, her cat, the “lit biz”, and what seems to be a…

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March 20, 2018
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The Conference of the Birds

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The Conference of the Birds — A Sufi Fable by Farid ud-Din Attar — is “A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose”. It’s some hybrid of prose poem, religious allegory, fable(s),…

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March 20, 2018
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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

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The title alludes to what makes this book so interesting: its atypical treatment of history. In this book, a sort of blend of history and philosophy, De Landa “traces the…

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March 20, 2018
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The Golden Notebook: A Novel

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The original structure is what first caught my eye: “a short conventional novel, which can stand by itself, is interleaved with notebooks, diaries, comments about what went into it, in…

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March 20, 2018
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Adversarial Design

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A multidisciplinary critical work which “examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political.” Given the increasing power and transformative potential of technology, this sounds like an…

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