The Pseudopod: December 2025

“While the Shepherds watched their flocks by night / All seated on the ground / A high-explosive shell came down / And mutton rained around.”

Currently reading (or intending to read)...

The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
The War of the End of the World, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Culture of Fear, by Barry Glassner
Submarine, by Jon Dunthorne
The Science of Yoga, by William J. Broad
Design * Sponge at Home, by Grace Bonney
無偶之家往事之城, by 陳俊志 (film)
Works of Love, by Soren Kierkegaard
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, by John F. Callahan
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Tristan and Isolde, by Gottfried von Strassburg
老殘遊記, by 劉鶚
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, ed Baldick
Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained, by Richard Feynman
Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell (Media Lens)
The Search for the Perfect Language, by Umberto Eco
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
I Havn't Unpacked, by William Holt
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Journal of Helene Berr, by Helene Berr
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Foreskin's Lament, by Shalmon Auslander
A case of exploding mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif
Gigantic Robot, by Tom Gauld
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccacio
Love, Loss and What I Wore, by Ilene Beckman
The Last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood

What I have just read (or re-read)

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
發條鳥年代記（鵲賊篇）, by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
複眼人, by 吳明益
Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson
A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings, by George R. R. Martin
Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin
What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn, by Colin Clark
How to Travel with a Salmon and other Essays, by Umberto Eco
Labels, by Louis de Bernieres
The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
Burmese Days, by George Orwell
村上朝日堂是如何鍛鍊的, by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
Catch me a Colobus, by Gerald Durrell
What I talk about when I talk about running, by Haruki Murakami
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
The Code Book, by Simon Singh
At Home, by Bill Bryson
The Evolutionary Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
聽風的歌，by 村上春樹 (trans. 賴明珠)
The Temporal Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
Baudolino, by Umberto Eco
稻草人的微笑, by 三毛
湯歌劇, by 阿川佐和子 (trans. 王蘊潔）
The Dreaming Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
色 / 戒, by 張愛玲
The Black Arrow, by R.L.S.
爸爸台北／媽媽紐約, by 陳俊志
The Girl who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
傾城之戀, by 張愛玲
老師的提包, by 川上弘美
價值連城的幸運, by 九把刀
巨流河, by 齊邦媛
白色惡魔, by 鍾菱
Essays in Love, by Alain de Botton
大江大海一九四九, by 龍應台
精準的失控, by 九把刀
naked economics, by Charles Wheelan
84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Invictus, by John Carlin
我思念的長眠中的南國公主, by 張貴興
惡女書, by 陳雪
我等不到了, by 余秋雨
父後七日, by 劉梓潔
War & Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
尋找旋渦貓的方法, by 春上村樹 (賴明珠譯)
1Q84 (vol. 3), by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
男妲, by 成英姝
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
紅粉, by 蘇童
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics, by Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
How to be Good, by Nick Hornby
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
The Nimrod Flipout, by Etgar Keret
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster
A man for all seasons, by Robert Bolt
All Fun & Games Till Someone Loses an Eye, by Christopher Brookmeyer
Plays: One, by Harold Pinter
Various Voices: Sixty years of prose, poetry, politics 1948-2008, by Harold Pinter
The clothes they stood up in, by Alan Bennett
Writing Home, by Alan Bennett
尋羊冒險記, by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (trans. 賴明珠)
台北人, by 白先勇
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
The Sacred Art of Stealing, by Christopher Brookmeyer
Howard's End, by E.M. Forster
The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett
The Death of Ivan Illyich and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy
Pigs Have Wings, by P. G. Wodehouse
Much Obliged, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
A Special Providence, by Richard Yates
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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