2022 Books
This year I feel I have really broadened out the number and quality of information I regularly take in, mostly through a wider intake of blogs and use of Reddit. The books I've been able to read have been of very high quality too. As always I wish I'd read more but I am pleased what I have read. Presented mostly in the order I read them, I wrote these quick thoughts at the time of reading. Please Stand Back From The Platform Door by Vishal Nanda This is a book of poetry by a friend. It's really good and contains poems about mental health and Hong Kong. The author is reckoning with multilayered and differently-valued identities, foreign-nativeness, how social ladders sort and nudge us into behaviors and what home and self mean when half of life is spent online. Extra-recommended if you get a chance to see Vishal read his own work. The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe Interesting, rather distinct from other fantasy I've read recently. If Piranesi was somehow positiv