What are y'all reading now?

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

Yes! Thanks for reminding me.

Not you but the guy in the cafe...

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Not you but the guy in the cafe...

Haha, thought you were asking if the guy was rambling about QAnon. I'd never heard of that group until yesterday.

[hoonjr]

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. It made me cry. I hope my sons avoid drugs like the plague. I’d break into a million pieces.

[bicycletricycle]

Just starting the longest book I have read in a long time.

Ludwig von mises, human action

[drewski]

I am trying to wean myself of Netflix as much as humanly possible.


Rain in Portugal -poems by Billy Collins
Questlove Creative Quest- book on creativity. Cool to read and then check out
some of his musical likes. Not just a hip hop book.
Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
by Christopher McDougal. Holy Cow what a book!!! Case study which correlates the blue zone diet/lifestyle of Crete and how it help they were able to fend off Fallschirmjäger (German paratroops). Everyone who is into history and sports training will love it. Written by a marathon enthusiast.
You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories Hardcover
by Curtis Sittenfeld

[weisan]

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[Bob Ross]

God help me, I've actually started reading Douglas R. Hofstadter's
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

...and I hate math!

[verticaldoug]

There There by Tommy Orange.

Just read the prologue in the book store. Pretty brutal

[rst72]

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - by Jonathan Haidt

[zennmotion]

After reading this review
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page...ronting-racism

I just finished the book, and despite some discomfort I think it's one of the most useful and insightful books I've read in a long time-

White Fragility- by Robin Diangelo
Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

[Mzilliox]

Originally Posted by zennmotion

After reading this review
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page...ronting-racism

I just finished the book, and despite some discomfort I think it's one of the most useful and insightful books I've read in a long time-

White Fragility- by Robin Diangelo
Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

sounds fascinating, and relevant to today's social issues for certain! this topic is hard to wrap ones brain around. ive never understood the defensive attitudes, but maybe this book will help.

[Jeff N.]

The instruction manual, in about a zillion languages, for the Campy SR-12 group that arrived yesterday.

[bicycletricycle]

slavoj zizek- the sublime object of ideology

pretty good for a book written by a communist

[zennmotion]

Originally Posted by Mzilliox

sounds fascinating, and relevant to today's social issues for certain! this topic is hard to wrap ones brain around. ive never understood the defensive attitudes, but maybe this book will help.

For me as a white liberal, the usefulness is the book's focus inward, not outward. Like that spot on your skin you've always ignored that turns out to be cancer.

[Ozz]

I commute on a bus downtown most days so I use the time to read and chill out...current book series:

"Marching with Caesar" series....R.W. Peake

historical fiction, first person account/memoirs of a Roman legionary from his time as a boy joining the Legions, and his rise thru the ranks with Julius Caesar and Augustus.

Pretty interesting recounting of this time in history and the interplay of the historical figures.

Cheers!