by Haruo » Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:39 pm
I was thinking of creating a new "What are you reading?" thread (à la Global Warming) but decided since this one is only on page 3 I should give it a chance to get up to 10 before propagating.
Anyhow, recent titles have been
by Kirby Larson, a very well-done historical novel of the Japanese-American internments of World War II, directly based on the experiences of the current interim pastor of Seattle's Japanese Baptist Church, Brooks Andrews, and his family (the protagonist is his fictional kid sister, whose diary from shortly before Pearl Harbor till a year and a half into the war the novel purports to be). I would highly recommend this book to any historically engaged young people, and to adults as well. Especially Baptist ones.
, by Arika Okrent. For those interested in getting an overview of the wide diversity of invented human (or humanoid) languages, this is the best general introduction to the field I've yet seen (at least in English, and I can't think of a better broad overview of the field that doesn't focus heavily on the a posteriori auxiliary languages (e.g. Esperanto) in Esperanto, either. Again, I would highly recommend it to those interested in such things.
I have just begun reading , by an interesting Somali-refugee-turned-Dutch-academic-and-controversial-atheist-formerly-Muslim writer, now on the payroll at the American Enterprise Institute. I'll try to remember to report on it when I'm done.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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