Books read recently by J. Zimmerman
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Dipping into two books on the ghost town of Bodie:

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Dipping into books for the mountains:


{ May : go-gatsu (see also books on learning Japanese) 2014 }

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{ April : shi-gatsu (see also books on learning Japanese) 2014 }

(4.30.2014)

End of month book release: the Ancient Greeks:

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Buy 'Under the Skin' (2000) by Michael Faber Michael Faber's Under the Skin (2000).

The book is an order of magnitude better than the 2014 movie in all respects, especially in terms of arousing sympathy with an alien. (The movie makes unfortunate and sweeping changes to the plot.)

The story begins with a woman searching for a male hitch hiker with:

big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were of no use to her.
[p. 1]

The book slowly reveals what the "use" will be. It does so elegantly, through different perspectives obtained by the woman's interactions with others both from this world and her home planet.

One of the best books read in 2014.

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