Books read, December 2011
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Frederick Pohl. Alternating Currents.
Tess Williams. Map of Power. Cracking first novel! A well-worked-out post-apocalyptic setting, with no easy answers or endings, plus a first-rate heroine of colour. Cheela is one of three protagonists, each with a different level of technology, whose stories intertwine; but both she and her detailed Antarctic world stand out (and Williams avoids very many tiresome pitfalls when writing about Cheela's tribe and their spirituality). (I've had this novel in a box for a decade; wish I'd got to it sooner.)
Borrowed
Helene Chung. Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent.
Thank you Santa!
Keith Osborn. Something Written in the State of Denmark.
Photocopy log
Tess Williams. Map of Power. Cracking first novel! A well-worked-out post-apocalyptic setting, with no easy answers or endings, plus a first-rate heroine of colour. Cheela is one of three protagonists, each with a different level of technology, whose stories intertwine; but both she and her detailed Antarctic world stand out (and Williams avoids very many tiresome pitfalls when writing about Cheela's tribe and their spirituality). (I've had this novel in a box for a decade; wish I'd got to it sooner.)
Borrowed
Helene Chung. Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent.
Thank you Santa!
Keith Osborn. Something Written in the State of Denmark.
Photocopy log
- (pages from) Hawass, Zahi and Lyla Pinch Brock. Egyptology at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century: proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000
- Alexandra von Lieven. Le ritual du shtp Shmt (review). JEA 96.
- (pages from) Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his world / edited by Paul McKechnie and Philippe Guillaume.
Publisher:
Leiden : Brill, 2008. - Hjerrild, Bodil. Near Eastern Equivalents to Artemis. Acta Hyperborea 12 2009, pp 41-49.
Daniela Rosenow. The Naos of 'Bastet, Lady of the Shrine' from Bubastis. JEA 94 2008 pp 248-264.
(Mnemosyne : supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; 300)