Archive for January, 2010

January 23, 2010

A Couple More Books

by Josh at 9:29 pm

I just wrote up some thoughts on a couple of the books I read recently and really enjoyed:
The City and the City by China Miéville
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The City and the City is perhaps my favorite Miéville novel to date. Miéville excels at world building and, frequently, his settings overshadow even [...]

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January 17, 2010

The Morality of Avatar

by Josh at 10:51 am

I’ve been thinking about Avatar a lot since I first saw it a couple of weeks ago.  In particular, I’ve been wondering what the moral message might be of arguably the most popular film of the year.  There’s a lot that can be said about Avatar and I’m not going to go into everything in [...]

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January 12, 2010

I’ve been busy

by Susannah at 6:00 pm

Since my exam list posting last November, I passed my exams, did summer traveling, started fieldwork, presented a paper at AAR, TAed for a class, officially became a Ph.D. candidate (ABD woohoo!) and celebrated the solstice season holidays. This fall semester managed to be particularly hellish especially since fieldwork has been mucking with my [...]

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