Reading The Better Part of Valour by Tanya Huff. Book 2 of Confederation series. Life has been pretty busy lately, so this one is taking quite a while to finish.
What about all of you? Which books have you been reading or listening lately?
Did some re-reading of Anna Karenina and Pride and Prejudice. Now reading George Orwells “Homage to Catalonia”, his memoir of his time as a volunteer against the fascists in the Spanish civil war. I’m about a third of the way in and so far it has been quite enjoyable, but I am hoping for some more politics later on; right now it is mostly about the situation on the front.
I am now undistracted and back to slowly trudging through Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I’m about 80% of the way through. Everyone’s dead and Kong Ming’s just captured and released some dude like 7 times.
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov. One of the many collections of short stories that originally appeared in periodicals of the 1950’s-1970’s.
His exploration of an intuitive AGI through a misogynistic lens of the late 1960’s in Feminine Intuition was interesting.
The story Waterclap, about the struggles of an engineer from Lunar City on the moon against the deep sea colony of Ocean-Deep with a tone of social commentary about conspiracy and lack of long term human planning were also interesting perspectives to ponder, especially when considering this was written in 1969.
Im reading berserk for pleasure and state and revolution for education
The most recent interesting ones have been The Age of Deer(all about deer in North America from a social perspective), scarcity brain(how our brains seem rigged for gambling and how it affects our lives) and WordSlut(gender politics and how it interacts with language).
I’ve never been much into reading fiction, but would love good human-adjacent(ie not particle physics) nonfic recommendations.
