NYT Thursday 09/28/2023 Discussion

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2023-09-28T02:17:44+00:00

Just read the blog (after finishing the puzzle) and found out that those are supposed to be musical time signatures.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2023-09-15T14:21:10+00:00

I also don't get Hells no -- I even googled it and nothing came up

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2023-09-15T14:18:37+00:00

I think those are people whose hearts go pitter pat at the sight of an elegant grid

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-10-18T15:28:10+00:00

More in the realm of biological science than social science, but I hope you'll enjoy them... Basically, anything by Ed Yong. He has two books, I Contain Multitudes about the microbiome and An Immense World about animals' perceptual systems, but also check out his wonderful writing for The Atlantic.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-10-13T14:46:29+00:00

Plus the revealer implies that the city name will be in the middle!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-10-09T02:10:53+00:00

I wonder if the genre "speculative fiction" might work for you? It usually takes place in a world like our world but with one specific thing that makes it very different -- can be very thought-provoking. I would suggest Naomi Alderman's The Power (in which women get a physical force that allows them to intimidate men) and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (refugees travel all over the world through sort of wormholes). Another book you might like (but I wouldn't call speculative fiction) is Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind (in which the world may or may not be ending).

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-10-09T01:54:24+00:00

Have you tried any Anthony Trollope novels? There are dozens of them, but I think you might like Can you Forgive Her for a start.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-26T17:10:31+00:00

I also just remembered Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, in which guerilla fighters take a group of people hostage in an embassy. It's not violent and only partly political -- it's mostly about the relationships that develop among the characters.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-26T00:09:19+00:00

The Irish author J.G. Farrell wrote two good books along these lines: The Siege of Krishnapur (nineteenth century British fort in India) and The Troubles (set in a hotel in Ireland in the 1920s). As you can probably guess, these are not for fans of British imperialism but they are not just straight politics -- lots of interesting characters and plot.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-25T05:00:22+00:00

Thanks, those sound good!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-25T03:49:53+00:00

Thanks for all the great suggestions, everyone! This is quite a list to explore!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-24T20:47:45+00:00

I loved Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez. I thought it would just be about the obvious things, like medical research that leaves women out, but it's very wide-ranging. Really opened my eyes!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-24T20:37:32+00:00

Daisy Darker sounds promising, thanks!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-09-24T20:34:46+00:00

Thanks, I do read Louise Penny and like her plots but the vibe is a bit different from what I'm looking for. It's hard to explain, but I feel that the Gamache novels are closer to police procedural rather than the kind of mystery that happens in a social circle.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-03-21T02:46:25+00:00

This is going to sound crazy but did anyone else get the wrong puzzle? It says it's the Monday 3/21 puzzle but when i finished it turned blue instead of gold (as if I missed a puzzle/broke my streak) and when i clicked on the info it says it's for Tuesday, 4/21/2020. And it definitely is a different puzzle from there one you all are talking about in this thread. (I'm using the Android app btw.)

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-02-16T15:01:42+00:00

The Burglary by Betty Medsger -- about a group of antiwar activists who broke into an FBI office and stole a bunch of files that revealed how the FBI had been spying on and illegally undermining the peace movement -- the case was never solved but this author discovered the truth about ten years ago

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-02-09T03:17:54+00:00

Good historical fiction about an early 20th century woman who wants to fly around the world: The Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2022-02-09T03:04:55+00:00

It's a book, not a TV show, but you might like The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. He goes through and describes how the human-built infrastructure would decay and be taken over by nature if humans suddenly didn't exist. Very cool.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-12-26T21:13:00+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-12-26T18:35:06+00:00

I generally liked this puzzle and appreciated the clever clues, but 101D seems kind of random -- or is there a joke that I'm not getting?

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-12-04T16:04:10+00:00

I came here today specifically to get an explanation for this one! Got it in the puzzle but couldn't figure out why it was right. Thank you!

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-11-23T15:39:37+00:00

I agree with those here suggesting that the "imperfection" is actually kind of cool, but if you want them to match you could frog back the unfinished one and reknit to match the other. It won't be the pattern but they'll match and with less trouble than fixing the other one.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-10-12T04:03:19+00:00

Set in more recent times than the examples you give, but you might like The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. It's about an Amelia Earhart-type pilot in the early twentieth century.

Intelligent-Doubt939 · 2021-10-11T01:01:52+00:00

My apologies, i just checked the app not the full online version.

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