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.
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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.
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Sketchy (February 20th, 2015)
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Sounds interesting! =)Originally Posted by VertOlive
Beware of oblique conclusions.
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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
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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)
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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
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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...
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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
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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)
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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
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Somehow this is funny, not sure why....
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
cwent2 (March 3rd, 2015)
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Tea for the British, Dennys Forrest 1973
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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.
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That sounds really good. I'm going to put this on my (endless) list.
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The Secret History, another Donna Tartt. Pity she's only published the three books.....
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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It was great. I couldn't put it down. If you like spy books, you might also like Chris Pavone's books. I'm reading The Accident now. Just finished a book by Joan Aiken called The Haunting of Lamb House. That would good, too, though quite different from the Ha Jin novel.That sounds really good. I'm going to put this on my (endless) list.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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My husband read the Taleb books and loved them, too.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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