September Wrap: Selfies with Edwin Vethamani, Colm Tóibín in Chinese, PhD reading and more...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- I only managed to finish a solitary book in September! The rest of my reading was for class and for Chinese learning, with just a few pages of books consumed for pleasure.
My book of the month was thus the Chinese translation of Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship, not for its literary quality but for its use as a language-learning tool.
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September reads:
Muriel Spark, Ghost Stories
Plutarch, Lives Vol I - Alcibiades, Coriolanus
Livy, The History of Early Rome (Book II: The Beginnings of the Republic)
Augustine, Confessions
Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship (Traditional Chinese translation)
You can read all about Malachi Edwin Vethimana's latest book here:
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You can find the full list of my reading for 2024 on my website: www.bookarmor.com
Thanks to everyone who viewed my videos in September and to all those who liked, subscribed, shared or commented. Until the next time, nanu nanu.
Extraordinary September Wrap! Thank you so much Jason for this highly interesting video, and for updating us on what you've been doing. I'm blown away by the insane amount of work you've been burdened with, between your job, your studies, and your new role. Congratulations on this latter one!
This video is even more precious after hearing how crazy busy you've been in September. Though it surely is exhausting, it's great to see you again, and you seem enthusiastic and motivated to reach your goal. Many thanks for taking the time to make this video, and for keeping your sense of humour! Love the 'mysterious' titles to the Deleuze & Guattari talks. It seems you've travelled into a parallel world attending this conference. Also love the pictures with you and Malachi Edwin Vethimana. Thanks for sharing these.
Jason, I wish you all the best with your studies (Art and Comparative Literature sound very appealing to me), your helping students with their translations, and your learning traditional Chinese. You will succeed! Take good care of yourself, and of your indispensable (vital?) reading glasses!!!
Thank you! Always good to hear from you. Yes, it was the busiest month I've had in years, and you're right, without a sense of humor I'd never have survived it.
The Q&A at the Deleuze and Guattari conference was particularly strange, with neither the questions nor the answers making any apparent sense. The whole event felt like a huge practical joke. It was a completely different world to that of Edwin Vethamani, who is engaged in empirical research and producing fiction based upon it that explores pressing social issues, and all of it capable of being discussed without any technical jargon of any kind.
As for the reading glasses, they provide valuable exercise as I spend at least ten minutes a day running around looking for them. :-)
Congrats on the new role. Really interesting hearing what you've been doing.
Thank you!
new subscriber here! loved this video!
Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel, glad you enjoyed this.
Braces would suit you by the way.
Really? I wonder if they even sell them in Taiwan because old men here famously deal with the lack of a waist by hitching their pants up preposterously high... I shall investigate.