SPOILER ALERT: Make sure you have a few extra pair of glasses in the apocalypse!
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Iâm currently reading Adam Shatzâs biography of Frantz Fanon, The Rebelâs ClinicâŠ
Itâs very well done. He found pretty much everything he could either by or about Fanon.
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Finished yesterday:
It was really fun and I decided to launch into the sequel:
I love it when I can find the books Iâm looking for as ebooks from public libraries 
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Jonathan, who posted as âJESâ on the Lines and TalkBass forums, passed away recently. I had read some of his articles in the past without connecting them to him; I knew him as a smart, kind, thoughtful guy, a talented bass and touch guitar player who was also gleefully exploring modular synthesis, whoâd released some ambient stuff and also played in a couple of bands. Such as:
Iâve just started reading the book. It had the potential to be really dry and academic but Iâm finding it fascinating. He talks about differences/biases in how the audible and visible are discussed in history and cultural studies. He writes about Alexander Graham Bell, who was married to a deaf woman, and wanted to âhelpâ deaf people by training them to pass in mainstream society â he was a fan of eugenics and didnât think deaf folks should have their own culture and sign language. One of his first inventions was the âear phonotographâ which literally used the middle ear of a dead guy to transcribe sound into squiggles (and this was after a similar device had used less gruesome materials). It failed to actually be useful to non-hearing folks, but did lead to the development of both the telephone and gramophone.
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This is relevant to my interests! You might also enjoy thisâŠ
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damnâŠ
That is lovely!
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Itâs Hemingway, isnât it.
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Yes.
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Not much of a blind date, is it.
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I am currently reading an Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte crime novel, so I was thinking it might be a Spanish author â in retrospect though. It was Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises which I havenât read, so that is a good thing.
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They do this at my local B&N now⊠itâs a neat idea!
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It is, if I get another chance I might go for a non-fiction.
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A good idea!
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Damn, Gaiman!
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Makes me want to read the novel againâŠ
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