Finally finished this. It wasn’t very long but a bit of a slog.
Need to get back to Wicked.
next up Bio / Memoir …
Ice Bound - Dr. Jerri Nielson
going on vacation, avoiding any political figures
Finally finished Demon Copperhead - that was a tough read, but still enjoyable. Now on to some light sci-fi.
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I am already lost with the Jordan Peterson 12 Rules for Life. But I’ll keep going. Been looking up a lot of words.
I normally do a puzzle and listen for about 30-40 minutes in the AM with my coffee. Seems to be a good habit I am forming. Just finished a puzzle so I got to get another one going.
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Just finished James by Percival Everett. It’s a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the slave Jim.
It’s his latest book. I loved it.
Started Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe.
About the IRA in Belfast in the 70s. Apparently also now a Hulu series.
Finished the third book of this series, “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.”
So many wrong decisions by this narrator. And she knows they are bad because she warns others about their bad similar decisions.
I have to wait for my wife to finish the fourth book before I can start it.
Finally finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire. I had read it years ago and didn’t love it, but this time I really liked it. I’ve changed a bit in 15 years.
Starting The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins & How to Walk into a Room by Emily P Freeman. Might add a fiction, not sure.
The Canada Reads shortlist came out today so I’ll be pushing these up to the top of my list:
- Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. Bailey
- A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer
- Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
- Jennie’s Boy by Wayne Johnston
- Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
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Read two books over the weekend, both I’d recommend:
Likeable Badass by Alison Fragale, PhD - About bringing warmth and assertion to work, recommended to me by a colleague. About 200 pages of content.
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD. It’s a bestseller and I enjoyed it; probably could have saved a couple grand in marriage counseling by reading this book first (although the counseling also has been good, but a lot of the background of that therapy comes from this book and the exercises in it). About 325 pages of content.
next genre are short stories and poetry, i have added plays to this if short story length.
i have collected plays of Arthur Miller. Have already read Death of a Salesman, All My Sons and Crucible.
I don’t reread, so reading, A Memory of Two Mondays and A View From the Bridge.
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The Ex - Frieda McFadden. No longer taking advise to read batshit crazy twisty woman love stories
I just finished Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer and now I’m starting A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
I cannot seem to keep interest in Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life. Most sentences he says are not understandable by my 3rd grade brain.
What kind of person would recommend a book like that?
Ah.
I’m reading The Priory of the Orange Tree now
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Blood Meridian, 1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Horrifying book. Makes No Country For Old Men and his other books look light-hearted in comparison.
It is also a great and riveting book: an anti-Western set in the mid-19th-century. Be forewarned of the atrocities.
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I finished How To Solve Your Own Murder. The title is a bit misleading, obviously, but it has an interesting plot. A woman gets her fortune read in 1966 and it foretells her murder, plus one of her friends disappears a year later, so she spends her life trying to figure out what happened to the friend and how she’ll get murdered. She does finally get murdered and her niece tries to solve the murder. It was not bad, but didn’t grab me, although I’m still tempted to give the upcoming followup a try.
A brief history of intelligence, Max Bennett
Fascinating history of how animal thought evolved and works, compared with current AI.
SSpoiler chatgpt has much ground to cover. Briefly, mammals evolved imagination to improve prediction, and GPT doesn’t have that yet.