2025年10月讀書5本:足球書2本,非足球書3本。
足球書⚽
Cox, Michael. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines. 2nd ed., HarperCollins, 2025.
三年前讀過第一版,今年出版的第二版新增了許多內容,擴寫到了2023–24賽季。好書值得一看再看。
Maguire, Kieran. The Price of Football: Understanding Football Club Finance. 2nd ed., Agenda P, 2021.
我對財經一竅不通,但這本談球隊財政眉角的書非常易讀。之後會想看作者的另一本書Unfit and Improper Persons: An Idiot’s Guide to Owning a Football Club(2025)。
非足球書
Boggs, Nicholas. Baldwin: A Love Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
作者在後記中寫:
It was only after this encounter with Baldwin’s image that I would read his work. First, about a year later, a copy of Giovanni’s Room borrowed from my twin sister and never returned, read in the secrecy of my bedroom and functioning for me, as for so many young gay men and boys of my generation, as “an early vector of self-discovery,” as the Village Voice journalist Richard Goldstein once described it.
太平洋彼岸的我也是國高中時候在社區圖書館第一次讀《喬凡尼的房間》(麥田李佳純的譯本),成為跨過各種邊界的啟蒙。這本傳記以Baldwin的幾段親密關係作為主軸,來寫這些關係對他的生活以及作品帶來的各種影響。雖然仍舊是抱著看八卦的好事心態來讀——我讀各色各樣傳記的主要目的——但也算是再次複習了Baldwin的作品。
Younis, Nussaibah. Fundamentally. Tiny Reparations Books, 2025.
如果亟欲拯救的對象不認為自己應該被拯救?——小說Fundamentally探討這樣的疑問,也寫聯合國轄下組織的官僚與顢頇。作者本人曾在聯合國底下服務,以機智詼諧並帶有黑色幽默的筆調寫沉重的ISIS新娘議題。
Butler, Judith. Who’s Afraid of Gender? Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
我不想要性別運動走到現在這樣子,但也不想要性別運動最後仍是被異性戀婚家敘事收編。讀完更傷心了。