Something for Saturdays (9/365)

[white_hart]

The trouble with trying to keep up daily posting is that on Saturdays, I spend very little time at my computer, and writing long posts on my phone is much more difficult. So I think I might make Saturdays a discussion post instead.

To start with, how about a recommendation post? What have you been enjoying lately? What do you think deserves a wider audience? Books, films, TV, anything.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm currently enjoying Monisha Rajesh's "Around India in 80 Trains" very much.

[white_hart]

That does sound terrific!

[perennialanna]

I haven't read that but I abandoned Around the World in 80 Trains very fast after extreme rudeness and condescending authorial superiority about atheism in Lourdes.

[tree_and_leaf]

In that case I should probably avoid it, but I'm slightly surprised, as while she is an atheist, she has a massive row with her travelling companion for going all Militant Atheist about Hindu devotional practice, so it's particularly disappointing that she would do the same about religions that aren't in her family background :(

[perennialanna]

It was her partner who insisted on adding Lourdes to the route, so that might influence the tone? It's very near the start, so I was more inclined to abandon the book than if I had invested a significant amount of time.

And to be fair, I'm a Catholicly-inclined Christian and I suspect Lourdes would freak me out.

[tree_and_leaf]

Hm, possibly. And I can see Lourdes having that effect, especially if you didn't want to go there in the first place (I'm only less dubious about it than I am because I was at theological college with a not very Catholicly inclined colleague whose son had bad cerebral palsy and is non-verbal and paraplegic, and the whole family found their annual trip to Lourdes a wonderfully helpful experience.