The snowman was $4.99 at King Sooper's and I basically couldn't help myself. Loo Loo Bean looks so precious, laying there and scowling next to him.
OK, I have a really good book recommendation for you: The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu.
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| The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu |
This is a Sci Fi book series that is light on pop-culture/tropes and heavy on Chinese philosophy, sociology, and, well, science (like physics, astrophysics, and the role of science in human society and development). A mysterious and extremely mystifying video game brings together elite leaders of society and they eventually realize the location of - and very real existence of - life on a planet outside our Solar System. Despite top secret plans to avoid confrontation with the aliens, let's just say that communication happens and all hell breaks loose at a universal (literally!) level.
The book starts off slow. It begins in the Chinese cultural revolution and introduces some characters that seem unrelated to the story. I was about 40 pages in and wondering to myself, where is the, um, science or fiction or aliens or excitement or, like, plot? BUT. Hang in there because when it takes off it's worth it. Liu's writing is complex and it is nice for this at-most-only-partially-interested sci fi reader to dive deep into theories and ideologies of society at large, not just society as it plays out multi-culturally on earth. I'm still reading the last book, but these have been very hard to put down during the last couple of weeks of "real" reading for school.
If you're looking for an epic story to lose yourself in over the holidays, this is a good one (but not necessarily uplifting, and not conducive to all those holiday interruptions). Enjoy!
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