Currently reading “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes. What is everyone else reading? Looking to @Twang for recommends.
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Rumi poems.
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i’m reading the Book.
no. a book about bathing and breastfeeding.
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Harry Potter 1515
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Of a baby?
Outside of textbooks, I’m reading “Haiti: Aftershocks of History” by Laurent Dubois.
@Jimbob, I have the Harry Potter audiobooks playing in my car. Keeps me alert and relaxed while driving to and from classes.
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Is it Stephen fry reading the audiobook?
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Yes! I have the Jim Dale versions as well, but don’t have them loaded on my iPod.
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Reading “The Age of Reason Begins” by Will Durant… and “Impossible Things” by Connie Willis (short stories of science fiction and humor but I guess it’s not really enriching.)
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The art of war…it has far reaching applications well beyond the scope of actual war…I heard a lot of business people read and apply its knowledge to good business practice…I just like ninjas…
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medieval war is fun to read,
until it happens to me
lol lol lol
lucky I wasn’t born then
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I’m currently reading Rethinking Madness by Paris Williams, Ph.D.
The last book I read was Flunky by @chew. It’s a short read (89 pages), and I liked his casual writing style. I left a review on Amazon Kindle, giving it 5 stars.
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Far From the Tree
A deep look at many different kinds of disabilities. There is a whole section on schizophrenia. Gives a lot of information, asks philosophical questions and really makes you think as well as tries to open your perspective on different issues. (Should dwarves undergo painful limb lengthening procedures to gain height when it’s for pure aesthetics? Should cochlear implants be utilized to give the deaf hearing? Should a mother of a child conceived in rape be blamed if she then kills or abandons this child? Intense things like that)
You Are Not So Smart (or the other book by the same author, You Are Now Less Dumb)
These books taught me that everyone is delusional, not just people with psychotic disorders. Learn more about common delusional beliefs everyone holds and where your own may stem from. (Many psychotic delusions are just extreme versions of common ones everyone has.)
Incognito
Very interesting look at consciousness and how much of our behavior and thoughts we really have control over.
Those are just a few really good ones I’ve read this year.
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Hey I just bought that rethinking madness book. I haven’t started it yet. Do you like it?
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Yes, but it’s controversial. Williams looks at schizophrenia from a psychological perspective. I think you’d like it.
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@shutterbug some authors and books similar to what you’re reading now ( European humanism&renaissance period) :
François Rable: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Erasmus Roterodamus:The Praise of Folly
William Tackery: Vanity Fair
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other than the Book, I read a coding book.
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Attention span is not up to reading much, hopefully it will improve…