Started Fabritius and the Goldfinch, a short piece of art history regarding the actual painting at the heart of the Donna Tartt novel, The Goldfinch.
Started Fabritius and the Goldfinch, a short piece of art history regarding the actual painting at the heart of the Donna Tartt novel, The Goldfinch.
Last edited by VertOlive; February 21st, 2015 at 11:32 AM.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Sketchy (February 20th, 2015)
Just finished Horowitz's Moriarity. I am now in the middle of Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie. It's historical fiction, the story of a young man who is apprenticed (against his will) to Johann Gutenberg, just as he sets up his first printing press. I felt immersed in 15th century Mainz (in modern Germany) with all it's political dramas, and in the whole drawn out process of creating the moveable type. I listened to the audiobook, which I find makes stories more vivid and real, if the narrator is good. If anyone is interested, the book has an excellent web site with background information on Gutenberg, Mainz, and the author: http://www.gutenbergsapprentice.com/
VertOlive (February 21st, 2015)
I'm reading /listening to record amount of books right now, started to listen to audiobooks while folding laundry and wondering why haven't I thought of it sooner. Listening to "Thanks, Jeeves" from Audible, the narrator is also very good,and it really does make the dreaded chore into joy :-)
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things
in the world that just don't add up."
James Magary
Finished a close reading of Thinking in Systems (in the process of syntopical reading/research for my own book on systems)
Did a 1-hour inspectional reading of The Half Life of Facts, which was enough.
Jumping into Waking Up now, and next up will be......god I don't know... I've got a big to-read stack...
The Symbolic Goldfinch, H. Friedmann, 1946. I'm off on a tear researching goldfinches. It took awhile to find a copy of this book. Fascinating!
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Just finished A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin. It was really good. It was about a Chinese mole in the CIA and about his daughter and grandchildren. I learned a lot about China in the sixties and seventies.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
caribbean_skye (March 4th, 2015), Laura N (March 3rd, 2015)
Bee Keeping for Dummies
Cw
“Life is short, Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you smile.”
― Mark Twain
cwent2 (March 3rd, 2015)
Tea for the British, Dennys Forrest 1973
Wrapped Waking Up, it was OK but I don't agree with authorman on a couple key points. That's fine though.
Started my reread of Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness. It's awesome. I'll follow with The Black Swan and Antifragile. These books changed how I see the world and make decisions.
The Secret History, another Donna Tartt. Pity she's only published the three books.....
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Has anybody here read Team of Rivals? I am about 10 pages in, and now my dad tells me that the author is now disgraced for plagiarism...hmm.
Besides my textbook, I'm currently reading Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, and Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (science fiction, which is progressing slowly because I rarely get in a fiction mood). Yes, I am a nerd.
Inferno
Dan Brown
Cw
“Life is short, Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you smile.”
― Mark Twain
Last book:
The True True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. Classified as YA. Very funny and poignant, and from a non-mainstream perspective. Story of a young Indian boy's coming of age.
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