Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2018
Three-Toed Sloth 2019-08-20
Summary:
Attention conservation notice: I have no taste. I also have no qualifications to discuss the history of photography, or of black Pittsburgh.
- Cheryl Finley, Laurence Glasco and Joe W. Trotter, with an introduction by Deborah Willis, Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History
- A terrific collection of Harris's photos of (primarily) Pittsburgh's black community from the 1930s to the 1970s, with good biographical and historical-contextual essays.
- Disclaimer: Prof. Trotter is also on the faculty at CMU, but I don't believe we've ever actually met.
- Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping
- Mind candy: the latest installment in the long-running supernatural-procedural mystery series, where the Folly gets tangled up with the Matter of Britain.
- Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index
- Mind candy; Latest installment in Stross's long-running Lovecraftian spy-fiction series. I imagine a novel about the US Presidency being taken over by a malevolent occult force seemed a lot more amusing before 2016, when this must have been mostly written. It's a good installment, but only suitable for those already immersed in the story.
- Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife and A Brush with Shadows
- Mind-candy, historical mystery flavor. These are the first and sixth books in the series, because I couldn't lay hands on 2--5, but I will. (Update: More.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur; Scientifiction and Fantastica; Pleasures of Detection, Portraits of Crime; Tales of Our Ancestors; Cthulhiana; Heard About Pittsburgh, PA