OT: What are you reading?
Thomas Friedman's latest is about the digital revolution. It's brilliant.
I work for one of the companies (and will be transitioning in a few weeks to another) at the center of the upheaval. Friedman's fresh take on how everything about everything is transforming puts technology, social change, environmental protection, and everyday life into a unique context.
By Claude Balls
Heard that is a great book. I'm reading The Yellow Sea by I.P. Dailey. Perhaps we can get together in the coming weeks to swap books?
Supposedly something of a female version of Knausgaard's My Struggle, which if it's half that will make it a damn good book
Human Action. Good but long book on economics.
Blood Meridian, for the second time. It's even better the second go 'round.
I have about 20 pages left, loved every page so far, but then I saw The Counselor and got so pissed off I haven't found the motivation to pick up the book again. I'm sure I will at some point, but that's how bad the movie was--it turned me off to an unrelated book!
On your last piont, it most certainly does. You are putting in the time. It counts. Think about it this way - you are simply reading it with your ears as opposed to your eyes (or fingers if you read in braille)
Truth and Progress by Richard Rorty
The Evident Connexion by Galen Strawson
They're all good so far.
impressed/curious that people can read multiple books at once. I can't multi-task, er, multi-focus like that. I have a finite amount of reading time and I need to go linearly with one book start to finish. Is it just a matter of mixing it up/variety?
For me, yeah. I usually have a fiction, a contemporary philosophy, and something from the history of philosophy going, along with a science or history.
One thing I can't do is read multiple fiction books at the same time.
Joel McHale-Thanks for the money
The show is great and the books are fantastic through the first three. I almost wonder if both authors caught fourth book disease from Martin(who both know well) as I still can't bring myself to finish the fourth one. I am extremely impressed with the world they designed and how Earth and Mars and the outer belt all work together.
Actually, listening to it. Richard Fox, the author, and Luke Daniels, the narrarator, team up to deliver a fantastic military sci-fi series. If you are into this genre, I'd definitely recommend it.
Bo's Lasting Lessons
1984
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. Amazing book.
Don't hold your breath, or change your username to Mr. Blue.
I can't wait to read my kids Roald Dahl books but waiting for the right age. They can get a little dark.
She's a reading fanatic, and is usually reading about 5 books at once.
If I might not-so-humble-brag a moment; her teacher in 6th grade assigned her a reading goal of something like 100 AR points last trimester (most kids are about 50). She just crossed 600 pts.
The last book I read to her was Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
Great book, & you must read it to your kid at night by candlelight.
My 5 yr olds however, are complete losers.
I rarely read fiction and generally don't have much time to read books (most of my reading involves legal decisions, expert witness reports and magazine and newspaper articles), but with some spare time, after re-reading Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and first reading Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America last year, I decided to read Harper Lee's other novel Go Set A Watchman and It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
After reading Jon Meacham's Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, and before starting Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, I've decided to read David McCullough's 1776.
1776 is in my queue next too. Not a fiction fan either so looking for historical narratives.
Well worth the time.