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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
by George Pólya
· published 1944 · read 2020-03-31
★★★☆☆
How to Solve It is decent, but overrated – the first 10% are pretty good, and then there are a few nuggets of really good advice interspersed with the neverending examples of the principles introduced in the first part.
Märchenland für alle
by Boldizsár M. Nagy
· published 2022 · read 2022-03-29
★★★☆☆
This book is more about its social impact than about its contents: It pushed off a law that effectively bans the sale of queer-positive books in Budapest. (No advertisement or open sale close to schools or churches, which covers basically the entire city). From a Western point of view, the fairytale retellings collected here are nothing special: they put a marginalised twist on things, be it in a queer frame, or about poverty or parental neglect and alcoholism. It shows that the book means to showcase new and unexperienced authors: most of the texts are a bit clunky, clumsy, hitting you over the head with their intent. You can read a German excerpt here. But hey: they're sweet, and the cause is more than worthy of support. (Full disclosure: my mum was one of the German translators.) It's published in English as "A Fairytale for Everyone". This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.