Currently reading
Hieroglyph: Stories and Blueprints for a Better Future
Ukraine: Zbig's Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated
The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Our Souls at Night: A novel
Above the Waterfall
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction
The Homicide Report: Understanding Murder in America
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Gods of Mars
Rich has written a fascinating book about language. Sure, the presenting activity has to do with the author heading to India to learn the language, maybe as a part of her cancer recovery process. And there is plenty of Katherine Rich’s personal story here, at least the part that occurs in India. We get a close view of what it is like to live with a host family while trying to lean a foreign tongue in an immersion process. We get to meet the many people with whom she interacted during her stay. But frankly, her tales of locals she met did not stir much interest here. However I did find her excursions into concepts of language and intelligence fascinating, and that alone made it well worth slogging through the rest.