mouse commented on The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first …
Reading books out of the bibliography of the last book you read is the real recommendation algorithm
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mouse commented on Arsène Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc and Edgar Jepson
LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat …
well that was delightful
mouse commented on The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
Content warning light spoilers to about half way through
I am really really hoping we aren't heading to a big love triangle between Piya, Kanai, and Fokir. Just absolutely not feeling any of that at all, living in hope that we don't go there but every time the smell of someone's skin gets described, I worry
mouse commented on The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
I think I picked this up based on a review I saw here and I'm really liking it so far!
mouse commented on Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with …
done with summer, not done with Sumer
mouse commented on Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
This was great, and a well needed light diversion. Recommended!
mouse commented on Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (A Norton critical edition)
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I'm listening to the Moby Dick Big Read version this time around
mouse commented on Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
yes hello I am ready for low-emotional-stakes reading about the flavor profiles of different peppercorns, thank you
mouse commented on Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is …
this book is great but whew, my next novel is going to be an order of magnitude less heavy
mouse commented on Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
From the author who invented the Western genre comes one of the most iconic novels …
this book sure describes some landscapes, heck
mouse commented on The Exaltation of Inanna by William W. Hallo
Consists of Enheduanna's hymn, Nin-me-sar-ra, reconstructed from Sumerian cuneiform tablets, in transliteration, with English translation …
So far (six pages) this is much better than the previous Enheduanna book
mouse commented on Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures by Sabrina Ramet
"Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures" is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural …
This was so interesting! Definitely gonna reread some chapters
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding …
apparently this is an unhinged, completely-fabricated-from-whole-cloth travel guide to taiwan from 1704?? I would like to read it. Psalmanazar even made up an entire language
mouse commented on Something New by P. G. Wodehouse
The sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly …
this was charming! I was charmed
mouse reviewed Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart by Betty De Shong Meador
The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in …
Very interesting material, not so interesting book
2 stars
The subject matter of this book is fascinating but I found the book itself disorganized and not terribly well written, and the author seems to be projecting intensely onto Enheduanna from scant evidence.
While I don't know anything about Sumer, I found a lot of her scholarship kinda fishy, and frankly it had a bit of TERF-y smell (although that might just be a second-wave-feminist smell that has developed a bad association for me).