So, What Are You Reading?

Read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

 

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Read John Stuart Mill, Representative Government]

 

For my research:

The Federal Writers' Project's Mirror to America- Pamela Bordelon
Vintage Snapshots: The Fabrication of a Nation in the WPA American Guide Series- Petra Schindler Carter
Remembering America: A sampler of the WPA American Guide Series- Archie Hobson

For fun:

Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music- Robert Walser

 

"Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions" - Eshan Chattopadhyay & David Zuckermany.

 

"Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions?" Wow! My latest is much less cerebral. Another 90-cent find at a thrift shop. Very simple, but heartwarming:

Little Grey Rabbit's Country Book - Gail Duff. For the children's-and-rabbits' corner of my library, where my two Build-a-Bunnies hang out - Benjamin Brownears, with his (toy) Kawasaki Ninja and his sister, Belinda, with her family of small knitted rabbit-dolls. My grandchildren are all now 'way past the age for this corner -- but I still love it. They all like rabbits, too. I made sure of that, when they were small. :smile: Benjamin was a gift to me from my granddaughter (17) last year. His sister (and the Kawasaki Ninja) were my gifts to him.

J.

 

Just picked up There Is Life After College by Jeffrey Selingo (editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education). I heard an interview of his, only a few pages in, but good stuff so far.

 

Bill Gates lists his top 10 favorite books

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-bill-gates.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0

 

I didn't know that the Chronicle has a weekly book list, but guess what? The Chronicle has a weekly book list!

Weekly Book List, May 27, 2016 - The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

Read John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism.

 

Seven books that are incredibly difficult to read. I have read only two (Atlas Shrugged, War and Peace) and I think that the comment about Thomas Pynchon was correct. I think Gravity's Rainbow was more difficult than both.

Seven Incredibly Tough Books To Read | Rishank's Blog

 

I watched "Everest" over the weekend and am now rereading Krakauer's "Into Thin Air".

 

Newest $1 find: Trump University - Entrepreneurship 101. Michael E. Gordon PhD, foreword by Donald J. Trump.

Well worth $1. Goes nicely with my PDF freebie from Trump University of some years ago. Gordon's a good writer and he's "walked the walk" - several successful businesses and has taught as an adjunct at Harvard (Extension), Babson College and other schools.

So where did Dr. Gordon earn his PhD? MIT - I checked. Doesn't get much (if any) better than that. :smile:

J.

 

Glad it's not just me. I haven't bought a magazine off the newsstand since probably 1990.

 

Ughhh I feel more and more like I need to read her book. I tried to watch the movie once....I think I fell asleep. I'm not sure why, it looks like something I'd enjoy. Did you find her writing style readable?

 

Neither have I - for myself. Same reason. In the last few years, I've bought one magazine a year, for my eldest (16) grandson - I slip it into his Christmas Stocking. Usually something to do with computer game-design or making 3D graphics. Usual cost here in Canada - $20 - $25.

(I buy no magazines for myself - but I buy about 200 books a year. Almost all at zilch prices - average $1.)

J.

 

12 Books for the summer

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/12-new-books-were-reading-this-summer-and-6-not-so-new.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Re: Magazines - for the last time, I promise. The info etc. I used to get from magazines - I can get free from the Internet. So I do. And so does nearly everyone else, these days. Especially DIY stuff. As specialized as you want. For instance, yesterday I Googled "how to remove grilles from Aiwa speakers" - and up came plenty of Aiwa-specific articles, plus a video or two - and valuable add-on comments from readers.

The Library has oodles of magazines - but I could look through them all afternoon and not find what I want to know. So I don't, any more. Talk about a "dead issue"...

J.

 

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.