I have finished reading Charles Stross’s The Merchant Princes novels, and the latest installment Empire Games, and now am stuck in that wonderfully frustrating position of waiting for the next installment of the series. In the meantime, besides the continued slog through Deng Xiaoping, I began Tom Wolfe’s A Man In Full. Few “literary fiction” authors I can think of are quite as compelling as Wolfe is, even when his prose is at its purplest. The last book I read of his, Bonfire of the Vanities, seemed incredibly timely coming around the time of the 2016 elections. His characterization of New York society around the middle of the 1980s really paints a vivid picture of the milieu of NYC’s high and low societies and their interactions. This is a quick update, but that is where I have been, immersed in books.
Dictionopolis 