Recent reading
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luzulaA Change in Station by L. A. Hall (2018), #3 in the Comfortable Courtesan series
These just keep getting better; I really recommend them. It's interesting to read a book where the main economic relations that we see on the page are patronage and working within someone's household. I mean, those are relations that could only exist in a society which is quite economically unequal to begin with. Still I do like to read about Clorinda's relationship with her household and I like how important they are as characters in the story.
Av kött och blod by Henrik Johansson (2013)
Title means "Of flesh and blood". This was super enjoyable and I'm sorry it isn't available in English! It contains 1) workplace struggles and organizing at a restaurant, 2) a golem made of meat from the restaurant, 3) a murder. There's no single protagonist, but we get to follow all the different people who work at the restaurant, including the bosses. There's a lot of humor and also you could probably read this instead of an organizing manual (well, the golem might not be practical advice though).
These just keep getting better; I really recommend them. It's interesting to read a book where the main economic relations that we see on the page are patronage and working within someone's household. I mean, those are relations that could only exist in a society which is quite economically unequal to begin with. Still I do like to read about Clorinda's relationship with her household and I like how important they are as characters in the story.
Av kött och blod by Henrik Johansson (2013)
Title means "Of flesh and blood". This was super enjoyable and I'm sorry it isn't available in English! It contains 1) workplace struggles and organizing at a restaurant, 2) a golem made of meat from the restaurant, 3) a murder. There's no single protagonist, but we get to follow all the different people who work at the restaurant, including the bosses. There's a lot of humor and also you could probably read this instead of an organizing manual (well, the golem might not be practical advice though).
