I tried Egan's "Diaspora" and I just can't. The thing is a friggin math textbook without the benefit of diagrams.

When I have to hold abstractions in my head to read, it's hard work for me. I will be utterly lost without a visual illustration to guide me. Something like this is incredibly close in challenge to programming and math for me.

So I buckled after 10% read and have now started a Jane Bowles novel called "Two Serious Ladies" because I really don't need my spare time to be filled with the very thing that makes my day job hard for my brain.

@bookstodon

#JaneBowles #TwoSeriousLadies

Irving Penn, « Oliver Smith, Jane Bowles & Paul Bowles, New York » (1947), photographie gélatino-argentique, 24.4cm × 19.5cm, Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, © The Irving Penn Foundation.

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More Bowles. Only this time, Jane. I've wanted this for a long time and stumbled on a cheap copy ($10!).

#JaneBowles @bookstodon

I'm willing to put friendship on the line when it comes to #bookrecs. I can't be friends with someone who doesn't like [insert author].

#JaneBowles is high up on my list of writers that can make or break a friendship. She's a #TrueOriginal

My #PasteUp of Jane & her lover #Cherifa from 2009.

#index entry on Cherifa from Millicent Dillon's biography of Jane Bowles: A Little Original Sin.

p 236: "Cherifa...was handsome and had gold teeth. Like Janie she was unpredictable."

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