What Fiction are you reading this week, January 30, 2022?

[lounge_jam]

40. TC Boyle and French 101

For the last couple of months, I've mostly been reading TC Boyle. This month I picked up Outside Looking In, which focuses on the ways in which the question of consciousness has been addressed. Of course, people are going to say this is a novel about LSD, but it's more than that. In Boyle's own words, the book aims to address how in the span of a decade people went from "the therapist's couch to mind expansion." Indeed, the book focuses on the many overlaps and incompatibilities between these two approaches. Raises good questions in the process, what with the active elimination of the "I" or "first-person accounts" from science, we don't think we need a first-person account of consciousness, a pervasive aspect of existence we have no objective account of.

Other than that, I'm coaxing my lazy self into learning some French. I'm no good, but I do at least know the difference between bonsoir and bonne soiree. I will probably just brag about this for the rest of the year without actually learning anymore French.