Just started the first of three volumes - anyone read it?
Theaelizabet No, but it sounds fascinating. I look forward to your review. 6y
Just started the first of three volumes - anyone read it?
pickI don‘t think that I have ever read a book quite like this one. Besides being a great accomplishment in weaving together the lives of all these magnificent women in terms of research, it stands out in combining beauty and truth much the same way each of the historical characters actually worked and lived. It inspires further reading into the works of Margaret Fuller, Emily Dickinson, Rachel Carson et al. I really recommend it.
But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things..?
Just stumbled upon a few quotes from Forest Dark in my old notebook, and this was one. There are several passages of a similar poetic quality in the book. So if not for the story then these lovely sentences may make it worth your read.
Started ‘Figuring‘ out what this is about: It‘s obviously an extremely well-read, discursive, tour-de-force of the life of many important western thinkers, but less obvious a story of how they create meaning scientifically and emotionally. More precisely: How does truth and beauty combine? I learn a lot and the language is beautiful.
“The current vogue for the zombie apocalypse in films seems to have been anticipated by the multitudes on city pavements around the world, lurching forward while staring blankly at screens.”
Litsy? 😉
“It seems to me, said Archibald, that you have erected so many obstacles in your mind that you have quite defeated yourself before you have even begun.”
pickI liked it because of the originality in world-building, the new take on the post-tech era (if not post-apocalyptic), and ideas of how indigenous people will see tech they don‘t understand. The story is fine despite its simplicity because it has layers discussing well chosen themes e.g. extremism, being human (even if augmented) and the importance of seeing yourself positively defined in the world. And Raphael Lacoste‘s cover is great.
#scifi
For some reason I just felt the need to pull out this one on a thursday night and do some random reading over a glass of red. I‘m mostly on my Kindle but sometimes feeling the weight of a physical book and the turning of pages beats the ease of digital.
#realbooks #physicalbooks
1. ‘The Expert System‘s Brother‘ by Tchaikovsky because it may not be what it seems to be...
2. ‘The Essex Serpent‘ by Perry because of the good feel it gave...
3. It must be ‘Figuring‘ by Maria Popova because it‘s hard not to have high expectations - but also the Danish classic ‘Lykke-Per‘ by Pontoppidan that I for some reason never got around to.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain #currentlyreading
pickA surprisingly effective reading experience combining murder mystery with scientifically feasible time travel that avoids the stereotypes. There is a steep curve of tension, violence and complexity going hand in hand, but hanging in there was rewarding. And it‘s always satisfying to read something with an original twist which is definitely the case with The Gone World. #timetravel #mystery #scifi
Five out of six for me...
But sometimes I wonder if you are right and if all of our choices are remnants of all the choices we made before. As if decisions were shards from the bombs of our previous actions.
1. Weird - 2. David Mitchell - 3. ‘Kalak‘ by Kim Leine - 4. Biography - 5. The Gone World. #hellothursday
‘She marvels again at how the planet‘s supreme intelligence could discover calculus and the universal laws of gravitation before anyone knew what a flower was for.‘
‘Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward as though it‘s solid. But the whole world is in free fall and you‘re in free fall with it.
‘No strangeness stranger than the strangeness of living things.‘
