A Tuttle paperback I found second hand back in July.

A quintessential Lem book. Full of satire. A sci-fi inflected Kafkaesque story filled with layers of bureaucracy and paranoia. Nothing is as it seems—or is it?!

Catching up on a huge backlog of book posts. The plan was to mirror my instagram posts here but I’ve fallen way behind. This one I posted way back in June! Anyway I picked this up for a readalong with some bookstagram folks.

Love the look of this trailer for this animated show on MAX. I’m getting some Moebius, Incal vibes with a little Nausicaa thrown in.

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I have three months of Apple TV+ for free. What should I watch?

It’s an iPhone upgrade year for me. I’m excited mostly for the camera upgrades in the new 15 pro over my current three year old 12 pro. I’m also hearing repots that the new titanium phones are noticeably lighter and that will also be a welcome upgrade.

RIP Edith Grossman. I’m eagerly anticipating reading her translation of Don Quixote which I picked up recently. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/0…

Currently reading: Offshore Lightning by Nazuna Saito 📚

With Offshore Lightning D&Q continues to bring more classic (mainly 1970s-1990s) female manga artists work to english speaking audiences. Some other books they’ve released are Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki, Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi and The Sky is Blue With a Single Cloud by Kuniko Tsurita.

Saito Nazuna came late to comics, not publishing her first stories until she was 40. The stories in Offshore Lightning are primarily from the early nineties except two from the mid-2010s.