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What are you reading? November 11, 2022 [1]

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Date: 2022-11-11

In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…

I am reading:

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin - I was eager to get to this follow-up to The City We Became. And it is good. Slowly but surely, I am becoming a scifi addict (so much so, I read the Philip K. Dick article in the NYT and threw a PKD novel and some short stories on my TBR stacks, jumping them over other books though not the Carlos Ruiz Zafón). So far, this one has taken me around the globe from New York to Tokyo to Istanbul.

A living city blends the will of its citizens with the impressions of outsiders, as filtered through through legends and media. We are amalgamated gods sprung whole from fusion or belief with reality, but usually, the beliefs are pretty steady...All these voices from Iowa and Alabama and England and Nigeria echo not our legend but its opposite— all the shit that people think about New York which not only isn’t true, but contradicts what is.

Istanbul is cats, as much as people. And dogs, but more cats. He often wishes he could be just an avatar to the cats, really. Cats don’t do politics. Cats don’t do genocide, unless one counts rats, and Istanbul is still raw about the Black Plague so he’s fine with those little bastards going down, Cats don’t decide to follow this religion one day, that religion another, and some unholy mishmash the third; they worship themselves, and are fine for it. He’s amused that the rest of the country seems to feel similarly; the government won’t do much for poor or struggling people, but no one had better dare insult Istanbul’s cats.

Exit Music by Ian Rankin — I surrendered to the Jemisin but I did read a few pages.

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