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12-02-2020, 06:31 AM
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The great thing about living in this house is that my wife quietly acquires stuff, and then leaves them around--or puts them under my nose so that I will pick them up and read them.
I went back to a very short classic on the weekend, because I was trying to articulate why non-truth telling is corrosive of democracy. This started life as an essay that kept getting reproduced and then ended up as a tiny book, "On Bull****" (author was an emeritus professor of philosophy): https://www.amazon.com/Bull****-Harr...6911770&sr=8-1 The second one I picked up (a library delete) is 'Modern Garden Design'--which is an historical survey of roots of 'modern' (since 1900) gardens--but it includes parks and estates. One tidbit--planting with native plants started way earlier that you would think! It also led me to an unknown-to-me designer (and plan) for Stanley Park in Vancouver from 1913--think a British version of Olmstead... The third (probably only of interest to a few) is a recent work 'Tolerance among the Virtues'--an abiding interest of mine from my academic days: https://www.amazon.com/Tolerance-amo...6912154&sr=8-1 
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#813
12-02-2020, 08:24 AM
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Recently started reading The Uncertainty Mindset from Vaughn Tan.
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12-02-2020, 09:06 AM
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"The Great Influenza" - John M. Barry. Only 70 pages in, but so far quite a compelling history of the practice of medicine, medical education and the progression of medical science.
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#817
12-26-2020, 07:51 PM
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Turns out a gift (book) I purchased for somone already had one. Doh! I went back to the bookstore I purchased it from to exchange for something else, while there decided I wanted to find something to read for myself while there. I didn't have anything specific in mind, just wandered around looking. I came upon the Tolkien section and paused, I have never read any of his work other than the Hobit and LOR. I noticed two copies of The Silmarillion, one hard cover the other soft. The softcover was a bit worn but the hardcover was in pretty good shape. I decided to give it a go and grabbed the hardcover...might be interesting to read the sort of pre-history to the Hobbit and LOR.
Getting home I opened the book and started reading the forward. In doing so I started to note the condition of the book which was pretty amazing for a used book...even the cashier had commented on it. I then noticed that it was actually a first edition. Wow, pretty cool for only ten dollars and in great condition. I think I'll hang on to this one! Picture just to illustrate, the one I picked up is in better condition. W.
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#818
12-26-2020, 08:10 PM
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Course, Ready Player Two includes some bits of that book in it. I won't spoil anything in case you want to read RPO or RP2 M
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#820
12-27-2020, 12:16 AM
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#821
12-27-2020, 08:14 AM
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Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
It is on Netflix as The Midnight Sky, which I began watching until buffering interrupted. It was interesting, and needed a new book to read. Dystopian novels are my fav!
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#822
12-27-2020, 08:54 AM
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Just finished a book that ended up in my hands because a friend wanted me to read it first!: "Vermeer's Hat"
Years ago, we saw the Vermeer show at the National Gallery in DC--it spawned a cottage industry in Vermeer studies--and this book is kind of a second take--the commercial and explorationist/expansionist drive behind the Dutch Republic's huge success in the 16th/17th century--seen through the Vermeer paintings. (And it starts with a cycling anecdote!) The author is a Chinese history specialist, so it does an amazing job of describing the Euro/Sino interactions over trade: https://www.amazon.com/Vermeers-Hat-...080790&sr=8-23 Also just started my Christmas book-- "The '60s" by Todd Gitlin--a friend uses it as a teaching text and after telling me about it, bought it for me as a Christmas present: https://www.amazon.com/Sixties-Years...9080927&sr=8-1 Last edited by paredown; 12-27-2020 at 08:57 AM.
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#823
12-27-2020, 12:16 PM
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Motherless brooklyn
Reading Motherless Brooklyn and quite enjoying it. It is sort of a noir-Pynchon mashup, kind of absurdist, great sense of place. Protagonist has Tourette’s, don’t know how accurately depicted, but interesting to follow. My understanding is the movie vastly departs from the book, but may watch it for the hell of it.
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#825
12-29-2020, 06:05 PM
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