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I read that book maybe a year ago. An amazing story about a fearless woman. Well worth the read!
 
Salmo_g said:
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks, for a 2nd time. Nice little bit about Darwin, species, and evolution, but the psychological section on memory, perception, and epistemology in general is a mind blower. Is anything real? Seems like a good fit with contemporary politics - you don't know what you're talking about, and you can't prove I'm wrong!
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Salmo if you can sleuth down the Sacks article from the New Yorker maybe a year or two ago it is worth a read. Particularly the part "Is anything real." Sacks got me interested in Neuro for sure, he had a knack for popularizing behavioral/neurological oddity. But as I've learned more about him, if we use a photography analogy for his published cases, you could say he turned up the color saturations a few notches. In some ways his flaws and perhaps what motivated the exaggerations is still really interesting.
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Salmo if you can sleuth down the Sacks article from the New Yorker maybe a year or two ago it is worth a read. Particularly the part "Is anything real." Sacks got me interested in Neuro for sure, he had a knack for popularizing behavioral/neurological oddity. But as I've learned more about him, if we use a photography analogy for his published cases, you could say he turned up the color saturations a few notches. In some ways his flaws and perhaps what motivated the exaggerations is still really interesting.
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Gonna buy this for Kay. Right up her alley. I can just hear it now... " Oh you bastard..." mainly because it's gonna draw her in and keep her in
 
My annual re reading of all of William Gibson's books, finest storyteller ever in my ranking.
Initially knows as the godfather of cyberpunk, he is one hell of a story teller in which plot is everything.
 
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Westfly Refugee said:
Just started "The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn" by Joseph Marshall. A Lakota. From oral histories he recounts the battle from the Indians' perspectives. Later the book will go into the aftermath and retributions demanded for killing Custer.
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I think I would like that book, but today I'm trying to focus on the things the U.S. has done right, rather than wrong. I admire the Sioux for leaving $5 billion on the table, wanting their stolen lands back and not the money.
 
Easy Money, by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman Subtitle is Cryptocurrency, casino capitalism and the golden age of fraud. Looking for a place to invest your extra money? This ain't it. Very interesting.
 
Kind of a lowbrow guilty pleasure, but I'm enjoying the Dungeoncrawler Carl series.
 
Crook Manifesto; Colson Whitehead, two time Pulitzer winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad continues the Harlem saga of the 1970s begun with his Harlem Shuffle. Crisp street language, colorful characters and writing that evokes Elmore Leonard. Eagerly waiting for the third and last, Cool Machine.
 
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I saw some of the original cuneiform tablets at the British Museum several years ago. A good buddy adventure, with insight into the origin of the Genesis flood story.
 
The Last Manager by John W. Miller
Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about Earl Weaver. Worts and all. From birth in St Louis to the manager you loved to hate, but airways put on a show. He was the first manager that adopted early saber-metrics, used the first radar gun, and argued with Jim Palmer from day one. He changed the way the game was played to basically what you see today. Deep dive into baseball itself from the Depression to what it is now. Great story.
 
Last week I started Meditations. On one hand I feel dumb for having waited until I was 51 to read this. It could have been incredibly helpful when I was in my 30’s. On the other hand, it might have been wasted on the 30 year old me.
 
Coach Potter said:
Last week I started Meditations. On one hand I feel dumb for having waited until I was 51 to read this. It could have been incredibly helpful when I was in my 30’s. On the other hand, it might have been wasted on the 30 year old me.
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Augustine?
 
Coach Potter said:
Last week I started Meditations. On one hand I feel dumb for having waited until I was 51 to read this. It could have been incredibly helpful when I was in my 30’s. On the other hand, it might have been wasted on the 30 year old me.
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Most classics need to be read multiple times to truly appreciate them.
Too bad Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus never did!
 
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