Birthday Loot 2015.

July 2, 2015 by 18 Comments

As is traditional at LH, I hereby list the books I received for my birthday yesterday (I’ll create an Addendum for any late arrivals):

Jabotinsky: A Life, by Hillel Halkin (review)

St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past, by Catriona Kelly (review)

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin (review)

Shadow & Claw: The First Half of ‘The Book of the New Sun’, by Gene Wolfe

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, by Richard Brody (review)

(My brother gave me a DVD of Godard’s Goodbye to Language, which goes nicely with the Brody book.) My thanks to all the generous givers, and I’m excited about all of these books!

Comments

  1. Hans says
    July 2, 2015 at 10:43 am

    Herzlichen Glückwunsch nachträglich!

  2. Catanea says
    July 2, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    Many Happy Returns of the Day!

  3. Matt says
    July 2, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Happy birthday!

  4. James says
    July 2, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    Plenty of good linguistic material in both those SF books. Hope to hear your reaction once you’ve read them.

    Felicitations!

  5. languagehat says
    July 2, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    As an old Gene Wolfe fan, I know pretty much what to expect there (linguistically speaking), but the VanderMeer will be all new; I’ve had the book highly recommended, but have never read anything of his.

  6. Henk Metselaar says
    July 2, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    Nog van harte!

  7. Sir JCass says
    July 2, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Happy birthday!

  8. La Horde Listener says
    July 2, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    (Wheels out the clapping seal.) *Blark!* *Blark!* For realz, happiest birthday, Fella.

  9. languagehat says
    July 2, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    *tosses seal a herring*

  10. juha says
    July 3, 2015 at 12:56 am

    Винчу денца аса декъала во хьо!
    Hauskaa syntymäpäivää!

  11. minus273 says
    July 3, 2015 at 8:20 am

    Shēngrì kuàilè!
    ʂɨeŋɲit kʰwajlʌk!

  12. languagehat says
    July 3, 2015 at 8:59 am

    Винчу денца аса декъала во хьо!

    First time I’ve gotten a greeting in Chechen! Баркалла хьуна, со декъала варна!

  13. David Eddyshaw says
    July 3, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    お誕生日おめでとう。

    My Unicode keyboard offered a picture of a birthday cake for “o-tanjoubi.” On past form this will probably break the post, but

  14. David Eddyshaw says
    July 3, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    https://codepoints.net/U+1F382

  15. Alexei K. says
    July 4, 2015 at 2:16 am

    Belated birthday wishes, and a happy fourth of July!

  16. Aidan Kehoe says
    July 4, 2015 at 2:20 am

    Happy birthday, happy fourth of July!

  17. Elessorn says
    July 4, 2015 at 3:18 am

    Happy birthday!
    And the Book of the New Sun! You are in for *such* a treat.

  18. languagehat says
    July 4, 2015 at 8:58 am

    Yes, I can’t believe I haven’t read the Book of the New Sun before, given how much I love his writing, but I’m glad I’m finally getting around to it.

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