What are you reading now?

[Horace]

@jon-nyc Yes I'm sure you're right that it's performative blackness. I once heard a black scientist say it that way in a meeting 10 years ago. I had a moment of sympathetic cringe, but maybe that makes me a racist. In his case I think it was an askaccidental slip.

@Axtremus what are your thoughts on this? Has anybody ever called you "Ask"? Did you karate chop them for it?

[George K]

"Bad Monkey" was a fun read. I'd forgotten how much I like Hiassen's books. Lots of differences from the TV show (character importance, the way it ended (!)). Nevertheless fun.

I've done "Tourist Season" and "Striptease."

Gonna seek out more Hiassen.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@jon-nyc Yes I'm sure you're right that it's performative blackness. I once heard a black scientist say it that way in a meeting 10 years ago. I had a moment of sympathetic cringe, but maybe that makes me a racist.

A guy I worked with 30 years ago slipped it out while giving a presentation to a room full of white businessmen. I could tell he was mortified. I remember it made me think of how he has to code-switch and the rest of us don’t. I think Coates has reached the point where he’s just not going to do that anymore.

[kluurs]

I'm just starting Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message - after finishing Bernstein's War. War could have used better editing - seemed like a bit of a rush job to complete. Still, it was a helpful and interesting book. Bibi Netanyahu does not come off well.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in What are you reading now?:

@Horace said in What are you reading now?:

@jon-nyc Yes I'm sure you're right that it's performative blackness. I once heard a black scientist say it that way in a meeting 10 years ago. I had a moment of sympathetic cringe, but maybe that makes me a racist.

A guy I worked with 30 years ago slipped it out while giving a presentation to a room full of white businessmen. I could tell he was mortified. I remember it made me think of how he has to code-switch and the rest of us don’t. I think Coates has reached the point where he’s just not going to do that anymore.

Well, he's a standard bearer as a public intellectual whose blackness informs his every thought, so it's entirely on brand to present with typically black language.

[bachophile]

[bachophile]

@bachophile said in What are you reading now?:

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800 pages of WWII naval history. Love it.

Finished.

Absolutely the best work on naval WWII I’ve ever come across and I’ve tried a few.

It’s all encompassing but very readable.

[taiwan_girl]

I have been reading the Sean Duffy detective stories by Adrian McKinty. I have read four of them so far. All were quite good. Very atmospheric.

Below is the summary of the first book. Kind of reminds me of the LA detective series,

@George-K may like this

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things--and people--aren't always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It's no easy job--especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn't matter which side he's on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles--and of a cop treading a thin, thin line.

[George K]

Just started it. Very, very interesting.

Best trivia? Musk's father was thinking of naming him "Nice," pronounced like the city in France. Reconsidered when "nice musk" would be the way it was pronounced. Hard childhood and an easy read, so far.