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harangularspectacular · 3 years ago

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Recent Reading

Helen Macdonald - Vesper Flights

This is a beautiful collection of essays that made me want to feel more present in my life and more aware of the life surrounding me.

Carly Finlay (Ed.) - Growing Up Disabled in Australia

I have dipped in and out of some of the other titles in this ‘Growing Up ____ in Australia’ series previously, all of which I have enjoyed reading and consider to be invaluable resources for teaching and learning, but this one might be my personal favourite so far. The intersectional nature of disability creates space for a really diverse selection of authors, stories, and narrative forms here, and I look forward to continually returning to these short works of memoir in the future.

Billy-Ray Belcourt - A History of My Brief Body

Where to start? The British punk band IDLES’ 2018 album title, Joy as an Act of Resistance, perhaps works somewhat as a shorthand, distilled and decontextualised, summary representation of Belcourt’s perspective throughout this memoir, which reads just as much as manifesto than it does memoir: “My thesis statement: Joy is an at once minimalist and momentous facet of NDN life that widens the spaces of living thinned by structures of unfreedom.”

Belcourt is a First Nations, Driftpile Cree, queer scholar and poet, and this collection of lyric essays is largely concerned with a metaphysics of joy: “In this book, I track that un-Canadian and otherworldly activity, that desire to love at all costs, by way of a theoretical site that is my personal history and the world as it presents itself to me with bloodied hands. To my mind, joy is a constitutive part of the emotional rhetoric and comportment of those against whom the present swells at annihilating pace. With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.”

Wiradjuri writer, poet, teacher, and academic Jeanine Leane has written about Belcourt’s book, published in Australia by UQ Press, for the Sydney Review of Books, much better than I can hope to speak to the text here, and she offers the following understanding of Belcourt’s representation of joy: “Joy... is internal consistency – a personal and purposeful choice to refuse to be either silent or erased by the nation state.”

I have developed an annotation system where, in addition to underlining passages, I’ll place an ‘X’ in the bottom corner of pages that contain particularly significant pages for quick reference; there are too many pages of this book which I’ve felt compelled to mark with multiple ‘X’s to the point where to quote them all here would feel like a definite copyright infringement. Nonetheless, here is just one more of the passages that I want to hold on to: “To care in a more feminist sense is to think outside of a singular life, and to do this is to participate in a process of self-making that exceeds the individual. With care, one grows a collective skin: ‘the fact of being touched by what we touch.’ Care denotes that which precedes it; it pulls us outside our bodies and into that which one can’t know in advance.” I am really grateful to have read this book, and feel that I am still only beginning my process of reflection.

In the meantime, hopefully without the risk of atrophying that process for myself, I’ll finish by quoting the ending of Leane’s own review: “...the overwhelming message, to NDNs for whom he writes first and foremost, and to First Nations peoples on stolen lands never ceded, comes from his essay, ‘Please keep Loving’:

‘NDN youth, listen: to be lost isn’t to be unhinged from the possibility of a good life. There are doorways everywhere, ones without locks, doors that swing open. There isn’t only now and here. There is elsewhere and somewhere too. Speak against the coloniality of the world, against the rote of despair it causes, in an always-loudening chant. Please keep loving.’”

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

I am so glad that I read this book, which, surprisingly, makes for an excellent companion piece with bell hooks’ All Above Love: New Visions. After reading Winteron’s autobiographically-inspired first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, last year, I felt urgently, though somewhat sheepishly and self-consciously, drawn to Winterson’s writing. There are simply too many passages that I underlined for me to share them all here; this is much more than autobiography. Here are a few of the passages that I want to remember:

“There are so many things that we can’t say, because they are too painful. We hope that they things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. [...] When we tell a story, we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. [...] When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of the silence that can be spoken.”

“All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get out language back through the language of others. We can turn the poem. We can open the book. Someone has been there for us and mined the words.”

“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, the the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.”

“The love-work that I have to do now is to believe that life will be all right for me. I don’t have to be alone. I don’t have to fight for everything. I don’t have to fight everything. I don’t have to run away. I can stay because this is love that is offered, a sane steady stable love.”

“All my life I have worked from the wound. To heal it would mean an end to one identity - the defining identity. But the healed wound is not the disappeared wound; there will always be a scar. I will always be recognisable by my scar.”

Graham Swift - Waterland

After reading Richard Norman’s analysis in On Humanism last year, I was eager to experience reading this novel for myself. The premise is simple, in the sense that there’s an instigating incident early in the story that invites and explanation of cause and effect. However, Swift zooms way out beyond the immediate scope of the subject matter into history, attempting to complicate any simple answer to questions of causation or resolution: “...shall we go back to the beginning? But where’s that? How far back is that?” The constant shifts in time, as Norman has identified, wonderfully captures the phantasmagoria of phenomenon that characterises when we call experience and history, and which can only be seen to explain, as Swift’s narrator says, “a knowledge of the limits of our power to explain.” I loved reading this book, and the feeling it gave my mind of being disassembled, dissected, and suspended in various positions that possessed their own coherence through a unifying incoherence.

The narrator’s view of his brother’s intellectual disability is unsettling, and feels perhaps more disturbing in a moral sense than the author intended. Here I am, though, guessing at a complete stranger’s intentions. It’s not exactly like the narrator is presented as a paragon of virtue. I guess I’m just feeling particularly aware of certain ableist patterns of perception and representation that exist throughout literature at the moment, for the first time, and am starting to feel weary and wary already.

Linsday Ellis - Axiom’s End

This is a light’n’breezy YA-adjacent sci-fi novel that I enjoyed. Superficially, it is about falling in love with an alien. There is also some business to do with language and communication - but themes are for eight-grade book reports, so never mind about that. Nothing to see here; focus on the aliens! They’re totally not metaphors! I am unsure if I will read the forthcoming sequel, though I suspect I would enjoy watching a film adaptation because, once again: aliens!

Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan

This novel was more generic - in the sense of possessing and adhering to established genre patterns - than I had expected from Vonnegut, though I didn’t realise it was one of his earlier works when I first picked it up. I remember enjoying the story well enough, despite the relative lack of depth and complexity if compared to Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. However, I was particularly moved by one line of dialogue, late in the novel, which reads like a humanistic interpretation of the proximity principle, and has since stayed with me:

“It took us this long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

As a side note: by contrast, a certain Ben Folds and Nicky Hornby song, which came out when I was finishing high school, has been coming to mind lately as an example of perhaps what I feel is one of the silliest, and perhaps most insidious, perspectives on love that I have (shamefully - and I mean that genuinely, as I believe the framing around the idea, in this instance, inevitably invites some pretty toxic patterns of thinking and behaviour) previously entertained. It is a bop, though, so plug your ears, lest ye too be tempted to indulge in problematic, harmful, self-destructive, adolescent fantasies!

Alan Dean Foster - Alien: Covenant

I hadn’t read a novelisation before, but I wanted to revisit the story of Alien: Covenant ahead of the recent Blank Check podcast episode without actually having to rewatch the film, so I read the novelisation instead. I was thinking it might further develop some of the film’s themes, but I was mostly just looking forward to taking my mind off work as my holidays began. I had not read a novelisation before. Unfortunately, the experience felt not dissimilar to the moment in an episode of Arrested Development when Michael Bluth opens a brown paper bag stored in the fridge with the label on that says ‘DEAD DOVE, do not eat!’ and then looks in it anyway, before sighing and saying, ‘I don’t know what expected’. From what I could remember, the novel was almost exactly the same as the film in both subject matter and structure, with Foster even ‘cutting’ between the points of view of various characters at roughly the same times. I gained a clearer understanding of the plot, maybe, but not much more of an appreciation of any of the ideas the film contains. The writing style is competent and unadorned. However, it did successfully take my mind off of things as the holidays began.

N. K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin - The Stone Sky

I was scrolling through the list of Hugo Award winners from previous years, and it was hard not to notice the three-year winning streak that Jemisin holds from 2016-2018 for her science fantasy Broken Earth trilogy. Reading the three post-apocalyptic novels over a fortnight was emotionally draining to the point of numbness at times - somewhat of a ‘what came first, the music or the misery’ situation, though. (I’m writing this in the midst of another lockdown.) Genre fiction seems to do this to me, but the structural ambition of the first novel sustained me through this initial period of uncertainty.

The tragedy of the first book felt stunningly orchestrated, but reading the second novel afterwards felt particularly bleak and harrowing - probably because I thought that such a narrative coup d'état wouldn’t seem possible twice, and probably also because I missed the humour of one of the characters focalised in the first novel. This is, I suspect, by design; finishing the series, the weight of the suffering represented in the middle section doesn’t feel overshadowed or diminished by the ending.

Unlike the unfinished Game of Thrones saga, which is the only other fantasy series I’ve read in recent years, this story does possess resolution. (Is calling it a ‘shattering’ conclusion too on-the-nose, considering that the instigating event within the novels is called The Shattering?) Subsequently, I am glad that I saw the series through, especially as I don’t think I would have appreciated otherwise the full extent of the metaphor(s) at its heart, or had the chance to enjoy the catharsis of the profoundly hopeful resolution.

George R. R. Martin - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Every now and then I accidentally get to wishfully thinking about The Winds of Winter. In its ongoing absence, I try to fill the void with other ASOIAF-related narratives of varying degrees of quality. I enjoyed the first novella of the three that are collected under this title, and the third one, too. I don’t remember Egg having much to do in the second one, though, which felt somewhat staid; Dunk is a character who, without a witty foil like Egg hanging around and stirring up commotion, leaves much to be desired. Speaking of eggs, and chickens, and which of them came first, I’m yet to decide whether I turn to Martin’s work when I’m feeling depressed, or whether his work affects me that way. I just feel kind of numb while reading his work, sometimes...

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

By contrast, Miller’s work feels full of life. Her writing is sensory and naturalistic, and sensual, too. I am taking a circuitous passage through the Greek myths, starting with the contemporary revisions and working my way back to the earlier texts; I will read Homer and Ovid soon, possibly. I think I was once the kind of person who, without having read any of it, would have been sceptical of Miller’s work, considering it derivative and watered-down - vulgar, in some sense. It is nice not being that person anymore, and I am glad I read this book. I was moved by it, and I believe that I will enjoy it even more once I gain further understanding of the ways in which it adheres to and departs from the classics.

David Malouf - Ransom

What a delight. This was the perfect book to read after Song of Achilles, as it begins with that novel’s concluding events. Mostly, it is the story of Priam, King of Troy, seeking back the body of his slain son, Hector, from the Greeks. However, it is equally a story about humility, reconciliation, and the joys of dipping one’s feet into cold streams of water. It’s a such a short and giving book that I feel like I will read it again many times in the future.

Madeline Miller - Circe

For a long time, my favourite songs were all about trying to do things. “But I try, I try,” sings David Bowie. “I try and I try and I try and I try,” sings Mick Jagger. “I’ve been trying,” Curtis Mayfield sings. It’s a more specific concept than perseverance, because that word, to my thinking, anticipates success. Trying, on the other hand, is indefinite. It’s for now, possibly forever, and holds no promise. It’s a state of vulnerability, and it’s a choice. It’s the commitment to imagining Sisyphus as happy. And in the words of Circe, ruminating on something Prometheus says to her about the nature of mortal life early in this novel: “We bear it as best we can.”

Needless to say, I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s of the kind that I feel somewhat melancholy while reading because I realise that, at some point soon, I will be finished reading it - and cannot read it again for the first time. Perhaps having a bad memory is a blessing in this respect; it will be new again soon enough.

Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad

Reading The Penelopiad felt like I was traveling down the surface of a horizontal cylindrical shape, and Atwood was periodically rotating the ground beneath me, swivelling my point of view between the characters in a way that worked towards achieving a remarkably holistic sense of narrative. I liked it! It made my brain smile! Atwood is such a dexterous writer.

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

I wanted to read something that had a reputation for being really, really well-written at a sentence level. In that respect, the novel did not disappoint! This passage, for instance, took my breath away:

“There was still that stream of pale moths siphoned out of the night by my headlights. Dark barns still propped themselves up here and there by the roadside. People were still going to the movies. While searching for night lodgings, I passed a drive-in. In a selenian glow, truly mystical in its contrast with the moonless and massive night, on a gigantic screen slating away among dark drowsy fields, a thin phantom raised a gun, both he and his arm reduced to tremulous dishwater by the oblique angle of the receding world,--and the next moment a row of trees shut off the gesticulations.”

There’s an annotated edition, published by Penguin, floating around that I assume provides some insightful analysis of this linguistic wizardry.

What I didn’t expect, naively, was for this to be a novel about language, and the ways in which language can obscure reality - or, even more broadly, as Craig Raine writes in the afterword, “the discrepancy between the dizzy desire and the dingy truth”.

Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I was interested in reading Neverwhere, or Good Omens, as my next Gaiman novel, but I borrowed this book from a friend at work after I saw that the previous person they’d lent it to had left sticky-noted annotations throughout it; the thought of reading the story and someone’s thoughts about the story at the same time was too good to refuse. Here are a few of my own thoughts, sans sticky notes:

- About halfway through the book, the villain says, “Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easy. They want such simple things. I will take all I want from this world, like a child stuffing its fat little face with blackberries from a bush.” (somewhat confused about villain’s nature and/or motivations - seemed to set up a similar thematic focus to Coraline at first?)

- Towards the end of the novel, the narrator says, “A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.” How true is this? This does not feel true to me. How is not changing not simply a form of change? The dichotomising of stasis and change at the heart of this statement does not seem to take into account the significance of context, or the experiences of continuance, prolongation, and liminality. I am unsure as to whether this passage is intended didactically, or whether it is actually intended to be more ambiguous in nature. I suspect the latter, and appreciate the way it functions as a provocation, regardless of whether or not this idea is explored within the narrative.

- I like that the identity of the person who’s funeral the narrator has been attending before the prologue and epilogue is never explicitly revealed - it lends the narrative the feeling of incompletion in a way that feels true to the experience of being alive.

- Gaiman and/or his publishers are very fastidious and consistent with the use of commas within his sentences. Many excerpts seem like they would make for instructive exemplars for writing and grammar courses.

Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain

I was curious to see how a short story can contain the potential for a feature-length film adaptation; I don’t think I’d ever read a short story that a film was based upon before. The jumps forward in time are all here, and they feel just as seamless as they do within the film. The only scene that I could remember being in the film that isn't alluded to in this short story is the one where Ennis is out with his family when he gets into a fight with two men as fireworks explore behind him - a wonderfully cinematic moment. I really enjoyed Proulx’s writing, and I look forward to reading more of her fiction soon.

(Also, god bless Michelle Williams for doing her best to deliver the impossible line, “Jack Twist? Jack Nasty.” Not since Paul Thomas Anderson made Melora Walters say that line from an Aimee Mann song in Magnolia, “Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again?” has an acting professional been so unnecessarily tortured by a director’s insistence upon adhering to the source text.)

Briony Stewart - Kukimo and the Dragon

This is a delightful children’s book - the kind where the antagonistic force turns out to be a new friend. It possesses tension, but is wonderfully free of conflict. The back cover says it’s recommended for readers over the age of seven, and the book is published by the University of Queensland Press.

Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse

This books is full of lovely illustrations accompanied by generalised, platitudinous assertions that make me feel anxious. “You are loved,” the author insists. But by who, how, to what extent, and why? These are perhaps unfair question to expect a children’s book to answer. They are important questions, though, and I think people (especially little ones) deserve a clearer, more self-aware and critically-informed presentation of a framework by which to understand this phenomenon. bell hooks has much more interesting things to say about love and self-respect, so I’m curious to read some of her children’s literature in the future.

Kae Tempest - Brand New Ancients

“It’s like Howl, I guess?” - my unfair response to too, too many works of poetry.

Qin Xiaoyu - Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Migrant Worker Poetry

If it weren’t for Rhian Saseen, an editor at The Paris Review, mentioning this one in their list of favourite books of 2020 (“required reading for anyone who owns an Apple product or a fast-fashion clothing item”), I don’t think I would ever have stumbled across this collection, translated into English by Eleanor Goodman. There are many great poems in this collection. However, there is one poem in particular, ‘Meaning’, by Chen Nianxi, that I think about often. It describes the author’s experience as a demolitions worker in a coal-mine. Without wanting to fetishise the work, it is one of the bleakest poems imaginable.

Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: A Graphic History (Vol. 1 & 2)

Sometimes, we need some pictures to help us eat our vegetables. Sapiens was was the kind of book that I knew I wasn’t going to read myself, and was waiting for a podcast to summarise. The artwork within this graphic version looks great, and, subsequently, I feel like I genuinely remember more ideas from this book than I would have from reading the original.

Brian K. Vaughan - Y: The Last Man (Vol. 4 & 5)

I grew weary waiting for the next instalment of Saga and decided to finish reading one of Vaughan’s completed stories - I had tried previously, but the library didn’t have copies at the time, and, from what I can remember, there was trouble ordering one in because it was, at least temporary, unavailable from distributors. Anyway, I’ve left writing this reflection too long after finishing the series other than to say: I liked it! And that I tried to watch the television adaptation a few nights ago, and thought it was not very good.

Julie Doucet - My Most Secret Desire

It took me a while to pick up this one again after I first purchased it a few years ago; I didn’t give it much of a go the first time I attempted to read it, and felt disappointed by the brevity and absurdity of the some of Dulcet’s earlier comic strips. I was hoping for a more long-form autobiographical work, I guess. Anyway, my expectations were all wrong. I really enjoyed diving back in to this book recently. It reminded me at times of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? in the way that it treats dreams, and the subconscious, as subject matter worth exploring. The strips towards the end of the book, from the mid-nineties, were my favourites. In particular, there’s a recollection of a dream about a Nick Cave concert that then is interrupted by a leap forwards in time, with Doucet reflecting on it years later, in the present - it’s more of a traditional memoir work, I guess, which is less perhaps radical and innovative, but it is nonetheless very satisfying. I’m looking forward to reading Dirty Plotte and some of her more recent work as soon as possible.

Alison Bechdel - The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Like the Winterson autobiography, this one felt cosmically-targeted towards my current state. I think there’s a word for this? I can’t remember the word, or term. Something that involves the prefix ‘sync-’, perhaps. Synchronicity? I thought there was something even more specific. Nonetheless, I loved reading this graphic memoir, and this passage knocked me out of my head:

“I see now that my yearning for self-transcendence is in some ways an attempt to avoid the strain of relating to other people. If you can manage to see past everyday reality, where subject and object hold sway to the view where it’s all one thing, unified and absolute, there’s nothing to relate to. ‘Self’ and ‘other’ might very well be illusions. But I was still going to have to grapple with them.”

Adam Nayman - The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

Not much to say about this one other than I thought it was very good and that I look forward to borrowing out Nayman’s subsequent book on Paul Thomas Anderson’s films whenever it, too, hits the shelves of the local council libraries around here. Actually, here’s something: this book finally gave me the much-needed motivation to watch Blood Simple for the first time, which I enjoyed immensely. That film has maybe one of my favourite ever cuts to credits: “It’s the same old song / but with a different feeling since you’ve been gone...”

Richard Ayoade - Ayoade On Top: A Voyage (through a Film) in a Book (about a Journey)

In the least-hubristic way possible, this felt like the kind of absurd and ridiculous monograph I might aspire to write someday. Needless to say, it tickled me endlessly. I enjoyed the autobiographical sidebars the most. Here’s a short excerpt that felt like a personal attack:

“...to be fair...we all bifurcate ourselves. When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with all the other books I haven’t read, so that one day it can present a logistical problem to those who survive me.”

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And I have currently started reading, all the same time (I know, it’s a terribly slow, hazardous, and unfocused approach) the following:

John Armstrong - Conditions of Love

Tony Birch - Dark as Last Night

Lesley Chow - You’re History

Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads

Stan Grant - Australia Day

Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock

Jonathan Rayner - The Cinema of Michael Mann

Tobin Siebers - Disability Aesthetics

Slavoj Zizek - Violence

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cheri-cheri · 3 years ago

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[L&N] His Reading List

23 April 2022 is World Book Day. Shall we take a look at the books in their reading list?

[ OSBORN’S READING LIST ]

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

“The Black Echo” by Michael Connelly

“Malice” by Keigo Higashino

“All Quiet on the Western Front“ by Erich Maria Remarque

“Private Peaceful” by Michael Morpurgo

“The World Minute of Waterloo” by Stefan Zweig

“Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie

“The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World” by Abigail Tucker

[ EVAN’S READING LIST ]

“The Razor's Edge” by William Somerset Maugham

"The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges

“Faust” by Goethe

“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer

“The Minds of Billy Milligan” by Daniel Keyes

“Dracula” by Bram Stoker

“Either/Or” by Søren Kierkegaard

“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari

[ SARIEL’S READING LIST ]

“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy

“The Pillow Book” by Sei Shōnagon

“A Simple Soul” by Gustave Flaubert

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho

“The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde

“A Study on Ancient Chinese Clothing” by Shen Congwen

“The Disproportionate Body” by Kiyokazu Washida

“Living on the Summit of the World” by Hu Huijian, Chen Shaofeng and Tianyuan

[ CHARLIE’S READING LIST ]

“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah

“Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness” by Fabrizio Didonna

“I Grew Up Secretly” by Emma Reyes

“Fang Si-Qi's First Love Paradise” by Lin Yihan

“Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You” by Patricia Evans

“A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales” by Anton Chekhov

“Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales” by Hans Christian Andersen

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare

[ JESSE’S READING LIST ]

“Ball Lightning” by Liu Cixin

“Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium” by Carl Sagan

“The Simple Art of Murder” by Raymond Chandler

“Boy’s Life” by Robert R. McCammon

“Dog Man” by Dav Pilkey

“Music is Freedom” by Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Lonely Seventeen” by Bai Xianyong

“The Temple of Earth and Me” - Shi Tiesheng

#light and night #光与夜之恋

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words-and-coffee · 3 years ago

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I know it’s ... a bit... late... here are my favourite graphic novel/manga/webtoon reads of 2021 in no particular order (trigger warnings that I noticed in the read more)

Solanin written and illustrated by Inio Asano Death, Car accident, Blood, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol

Venus in the Blind Spot written and illustrated by Junji Ito translated by Yuji Oniki and Jocelyne Allen Body horror, Gore, Death, Blood, Violence, Murder, Death of a parent, Sexual content, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual assault

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse written and illustrated by Charlie Mackesy None that I noticed

Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga written by Rainbow Rowell, illustrated by Gabi Nam and Adapted by Sam Maggs Panic attacks/disorders, Mental Illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Eating disorder

The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion written by Milcha and illustrated by Gorae Alcohol, Murder, Animal death, Kidnapping

The Tea Dragon Society written and illustrated by K. O'Neill Blood, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief

Happiness vol. 1-10 written and illustrated by by Shūzō Oshimi translated by Kevin Gifford Blood, Murder, Violence, Grief, Death, Gore, Child Death, Cannibalism, Death of Parent, Sexual Content, Kidnapping, Bullying, Panic Attacks, Body horror,Child abuse, Animal Cruelty, Gun Violence, Torture, Confinement and Medical content

The Complete Persepolis written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi translated by Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris and Anjali Singh Death, Violence, Misogyny, Police Brutality, Suicide attempt, War, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Sexism, Murder, Xenophobia, Racism, Grief, Islamophobia, Alcohol, Rape, Homophobia, Child death

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures written and illustrated by Nate Stevenson Mental illness, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming

Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) written by Yuval Noah Harari illustrated by David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave I can’t really recall

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yidquotes · 4 years ago

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The Torah defines someone who's righteous not as someone who had succeeded, but someone who has persevered. It creates a paradigm of what righteousness is – trying to do what's right, getting up from failure, and keep moving forward.

Charlie Harary

#judaism #jumblr #Torah

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claudiobaglionicantastorie · 2 years ago

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OLTRE

Interprete: Claudio Baglioni

Etichetta: CBS

Catalogo: 466135-1

Data di pubblicazione: 16 Novembre 1990

Matrici: CI CBS 466135 1-1L/2L/3L/4L

Supporto:vinile 33 giri

Tipo audio: Stereo

Dimensioni: 30 cm.

Facciate: 4

Note: Sottotitolo: Un mondo uomo sotto un cielo mago / Fotografia di Guido Harari / Registrato a "Real World Bath Westside" (Londra), "Town House" (Londra), "Grande Armée" (Parigi), "Forum" (Roma), "Pick Up" (Reggio Emilia), "Studio Emme" (Firenze), "Easy Records" (Roma), "Heaven" (Rimini) e "Great Linford" (Milton Keynes) / Copertina a busta con speciale poster contenente su un lato la riproduzione di un lungo manoscritto dello stesso Baglioni e sull'altro una combinazione di foto e disegni. Non sono presenti i testi delle canzoni / Pubblicato anche in uno speciale cofanetto con il codice 466135-0 / Distribuito da CBS Dischi S.p.A.

BRANI

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DAGLI IL VIA

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Simon Clark (piano) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Phil Palmer (chitarra) , David Rhodes (chitarra) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

IO DAL MARE

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Pino Daniele (voce) , Pino Daniele (chitarra) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso)

NASO DI FALCO

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Marcello Bono (ghironda) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Frank Ricotti (percussioni) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

IO LUI E LA CANA FEMMINA

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Pierre Dutour (fiati) , Richard Galliano (fisarmonica) , Michael Gaucher (fiati) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Antoine Russo (fiati) , Celso Valli (direzione fiati) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

STELLE DI STELLE

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Manu Katche (percussioni) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Mia Martini (voce) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Danilo Rea (piano)

Lato B

VIVI

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Nick Glennie Smith (tastiera) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Phil Palmer (chitarra) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

LE DONNE SONO

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Rossella Corsi (coro) , Danny Cummings (percussioni) , Cesare De Natale (coro) , Susan Duncan Smith (coro) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Roberta Longhi (coro) , Livio Macoratti (coro) , Paola Massari (coro) , Claudio Mattone (coro) , Matteo Montanari (coro) , Piero Montanari (coro) , Franco Novaro (coro) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Danilo Rea (coro) , Massimiliano Savaiano (coro) , Walter Savelli (coro)

DOMANI MAI

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Paco De Lucia (chitarra) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Unione dei Musicisti di Roma (orchestra di archi e mandolini) , Celso Valli (tastiera) , Celso Valli (direzione archi e mandolini)

ACQUA DALLA LUNA

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Steve Ferrone (batteria) , Tony Levin (basso) , Celso Valli (tastiere)

TAMBURI LONTANI

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Danny Cummings (percussioni) , Isobel Griffiths Brass and Woodwind (fiati) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Danny Thompson (contrabbasso) , Celso Valli (direzione fiati)

Lato C

NOI NO

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Frank Ricotti (percussioni) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

SIGNORA DELLE ORE SCURE

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Tony Levin (basso) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

NAVIGANDO

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Steve Ferrone (batteria) , Richard Galliano (fisarmonica) , Nick Glennie Smith (tastiera) , Tony Levin (basso) , Hossam Ramzy (percussioni) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

LE MANI E L'ANIMA

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Danny Cummings (percussioni) , John Giblin (basso) , Nick Glennie Smith (tastiera) , Charlie Morgan (batteria) , Youssou N'Dour (voci) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

MILLE GIORNI DI TE E DI ME

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Steve Ferrone (batteria) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Tony Levin (basso) , Walter Savelli (pianoforte) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

Lato D

DOV'È DOV'È

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Riccardo Baglioni (voce) , Ida Baldi (coro) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Teresita Lastoria (voce) , Oreste Lionello (voce) , Paola Massari (coro) , Phil Palmer (chitarra solista) , Mario Pescetelli (voce) , Silvia Saleppico (voce) , Walter Savelli (coro) , Celso Valli (tastiera) , Celso Valli (programmazione ritmica)

TIENIAMENTE

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Claudio Baglioni (tastiera)

QUI DIO NON C'È

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Didier Lockwood (violino) , London Symphony Orchestra (fiati) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Hossam Ramzy (percussioni) , Frank Ricotti (percussioni) , Unione dei Musicisti di Roma (flauti) , Celso Valli (direzione flauti) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

LA PIANA DEI CAVALLI BRADI

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Danny Cummings (percussioni) , Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Unione dei Musicisti di Roma (orchestra d'archi oboe e fagotto) , Celso Valli (tastiera) , Celso Valli (direzione archi oboe e fagotto)

PACE

Autori: Claudio Baglioni Musicisti: Paolo Gianolio (chitarra) , Manu Katche (batteria) , Pino Palladino (basso) , Frank Ricotti (percussioni) , Celso Valli (tastiera)

ARRANGIATORE

Celso Valli

EDIZIONI MUSICALI

Cosa

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an absolute list of books i’d like to read (so far)

many entries courtesy of goodreads’ eclectic and niche lists

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)

The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (1951)

Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, Kuzhali Manickavel (2008)

Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker (1984)

The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh (2002)

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (1992)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (1985)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)

Salt Slow, Julia Armfield (2019)

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall (1928)

Black Voices from Prison, Etheridge Knight (1970)

The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)

Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of Conflict in Northern Ireland, David McKittrick (2000)

The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, Michael Dylan Foster (2014)

Angels in America, Tony Kushner (1993)

Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen (2006)

A Disaffection, James Kelman (1989)

The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway (1989)

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucalt (1975)

Antkind, Charlie Kaufman (2020)

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (2015)

The New Me, Halle Butler (2019)

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, Alissa Nutting (2010)

Manifesto Cyborg, Donna J Haraway (1985)

Woman, Eating, Claire Kohda (2022)

Boy Parts, Eliza Clark (2020)

Acts of Desperation, Megan Nolan (2021)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski (2000)

Battle Royale, Koushun Takami (2003)

Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg (2001)

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ironxkid · 3 years ago

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((although it’s common to see Carter constantly moving about or doing something engaging, she does take time to read, and if she’s interested in the book, she can easily sit still for hours doing nothing but. She tends to read more nonfiction astronomy books, but does branch out into other genres as well - though, she tends to avoid romance books, and usually goes for sci-fi

some titles that can be found on her bookshelf are listed below!

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, as well as And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer (all sci-fi)

Star Lore: Myths, Legends, and Facts by William Tyler Olcott (her copy is well-worn, but not falling apart) (nonfiction)

The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque (nonfiction)

Imagined Life by James Trefil and Michael Summers (nonfiction)

Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin (nonfiction)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (nonfiction)

Stars & Planets: The Complete Guide to the Stars, Constellations, and the Solar System (updated and expanded edition) by Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion (nonfiction)

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (fantasy)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians 1-5 by Rick Riordan (young reader fantasy)

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (sci-fi)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (it was a joke gift and she refuses to read it, but hasn’t gotten around to donating it) (young adult fantasy/romance)

A Darker Shade of Magic; A Gathering of Shadows; and A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab (fantasy)

First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Richard Preston (nonfiction)

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (nonfiction)

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (nonfiction)

The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More! by Jon Chase and Mark Brake (nonfiction)

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene (nonfiction)

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield (nonfiction)

Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey (nonfiction)

Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea -- the Milky Way’s Home by Hélène Courtois (nonfiction)

The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack (nonfiction)

A Brief History of Time; Brief Answers to the Big Questions; The Grand Design; The Theory of Everything; A Briefer History of Time; and The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (all nonfiction)

How to Die in Space by Paul M. Sutter (nonfiction)

Hubble Legacy: 30 Years of Discoveries and Images by Jim Bell (nonfiction)

Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky Through Maps by Elena Percivaldi (nonfiction)

Written in the Stars: Constellations, Facts and Folklore by Alison Davies (nonfiction)

Fire Bringer; The Sight; and Fell by David Clement-Davies (young adult fantasy)

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe (nonfiction)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (nonfiction)

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (nonfiction)

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens -- and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum (nonfiction)

Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings (nonfiction)

The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies (nonfiction)

Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Hand (nonfiction)

The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World by Peter Ward (nonfiction)

The Living Cosmos by Chris Impey (nonfiction)

Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space by Umberto Cavallaro (nonfiction)

Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth by Ben Bova (nonfiction)

Firestarter by Stephen King (horror)

The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir (both sci-fi)

Red Rising; Golden Son; Morning Star; Iron Gold; and Dark Age by Pierce Brown (all sci-fi)

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (fiction)

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh (nonfiction humor/biography)

The Fire Within; Icefire; Fire Star; The Fire Eternal; Dark Fire; Fire World; and The Fire Ascending by Chris d’Lacey (all young reader fantasy)

The Hunger Games; Catching Fire; Mockingjay; and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (young adult fantasy)

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (young adult fiction)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (both sci-fi)

Aurora; Red Mars; Green Mars; and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (all sci-fi)

Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton (both fiction)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (nonfiction)

Wonders of the Solar System by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen (nonfiction)

#headcanons #((yes I did post this earlier but that had been an accident dsghsgfdjh #I was trying to edit on mobile and it didn't work out lol #so I'm posting it again sdghjdfhj #also I added a few titles))

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alexandraswriting · 5 years ago

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Books to Distract You During Quarantine

Fiction:

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She is Sorry by Fredrik Backman

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Lovely War by Julia Berry

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors Sonali Dev

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets to the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Emma by Jane Austen (Especially if you haven’t seen the movie yet)

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Odyssey by Homer

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A Moveable Fest by Ernest Hemingway

Non-Fiction:

Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza

Material Girl, Mystical World by Ruth Warrington

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Essence of Happiness by The Dalai Lama

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

First We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Though Anxiety by Sarah Wilson

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

For those who cannot buy books right now for whatever reason, Scribd (not sponsored) is an app I use a lot. They offer a 30 day free trial for first time users.

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space-life · 4 years ago

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Some things about Space Life

Space Life is a science fiction webcomic set in an indefinite future on a small spaceship traveling the cosmos. On board the spaceship we find Tom, an astronaut we always see with a suit and helmet and AL, the voice of an artificial intelligence. Welcome to spaceship Beagle 5. Sit back and enjoy following Tom and AL on an extravagant adventure among the stars. Try to find countless references to famous and little-known jewels from scifi, nerd and pop culture.

Some things about Space Life

The Beagle 5 spaceship takes its name from the HMS Beagle ship. The HMS Beagle on her second voyage hosted the then young naturalist Charles Darwin on board, whose work made the Beagle one of the most famous ships in history. Number 5 is a tribute to Eagle 5 (which also has a certain similarity with the name Beagle) spaceship of Spaceballs (A 1987 american science fiction comedy film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks).

AL is a tribute to Alan Turing. Philosopher, mathematician and cryptographer. The test that bears his name is still considered today a valid tool to ascertain whether a machine is able to compete with human intelligence.

AL also remembers HAL 9000, the supercomputer aboard the spacecraft Discovery in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Arthur C. Clarke's book of the same name. In 2003, the American Film Institute placed HAL 9000 in 13th place on its list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time. What surprises will AL have in store for us?

The work break raises the question about the future of work and about human-machine interaction. For further information see Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

The game of chess proposed by Tom in "Origin" is a tribute to the great chess challenges between man and computer. Chess and computers have gone hand in hand since the dawn of information technology. Between the end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s the first articles appeared (with signatures of illustrious scientists such as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener and above all the aforementioned Alan Turing) that designed algorithms capable of playing. Memorable were the challenges between Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue.

In "Spoiler" Tom says he wants to start reading "War and Peace". The reference is to the Peanuts character Snoopy who loves War and Peace, but in order not to get tired he reads no more than one word a day.

After the Apollo 1 fire, Snoopy became the official mascot of the Apollo program's aerospace security, testing and rebuilding.

The Apollo 10 lunar module was named "Snoopy" and the command module "Charlie Brown".

The Silver Snoopy award is a special NASA award in the form of a silver pin engraved with Snoopy with a space helmet. It is given to an astronaut who works in the space program who has gone above and beyond on the pursuit of quality and safety.

In "Cultural evolution" we refer to the cultural evolution in animals. In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. A meaning of "cultural evolution in animals" refers to these findings and I present an overview of the key findings. I will then address the other meaning of the term focused on cultural changes within a lineage. Such changes in humans, described as "cumulative cultural evolution", have been spectacular, but relatively little attention has yet been paid to the subject in non-human animals, other than claiming that the process is unique to humans. A variety of evidence, including controlled experiments and field observations, has begun to challenge this view and in some behavioral domains, particularly birdsong, cultural evolution has been studied for many years. The scifi reference is to "Planet of the Apes" and compared to the bears to the short story "Bears Discover Fire" by American science fiction author Terry Bisson.

"Time" is set in the vicinity of the black hole M87 . It's the central black hole of the giant elliptical galaxy Galaxy Virgo A, encoded as "M87" (the largest galaxy in the "near" universe, located 56 million light years from us , in the Cluster of the Virgin). It has a mass approximately 6.6 billion times that of the Sun.

That the time be one illusion is a mantra of many modern theoretical physicists. In the equations of the "loop quantum gravity model", with which Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin and others try to unify Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics, time disappears. What exists at the fundamental level are only "atoms of space". The universe and its history are nothing more than ways in which these "space atoms" are arranged. (Rovelli's Book)

Tom's answer - "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so"- is a quote from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Have fun finding references and quotes in the next few episodes! feel free to write your ideas in the comments.

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fundonboy · 5 years ago

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2020 Books:

33. Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi (English, 15.5) 32. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams (English, 26.4) 31. The Children of Captain Grant - Jules Verne (Russian, 6.4) 30. Limping Fate - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 30.3) 29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson (English, 29.3) 28. The Theory of Everything - Stephen Hawking (English, 26.3) 27. Seriously... I’m Kidding - Ellen DeGeneres (English, 21.3) 26. Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney (English, 21.3) 25. William Shakespeare’s Star Wars - Ian Doescher (English, 16.3) 24. Voyage (The Poetic Underground #2) - Erin Hanson (English, 12.3) 23. The Art of People - Dave Kerpen (English, 11.3) 22. The Tales of Beedle The Bard (English, 9.3) 21. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (English, 9.3) 20. Why It Does Not have To Be In Focus - Jackie Higgins (English, 29.2) 19. If Cats Disappeared From the World - Genki Kawamura (English, 25.2) 18. Normal People - Sally Rooney (English, 21.2) 17. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson (English, 14.2) 16. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 7.2) 15. The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 5.2) 14. Space Mowgli & The Kid from Hell - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 4.2) 13. Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson (English, 29.1)

12. Space Apprentice - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 27.1) 11. The Way to Amalthea - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 22.1) 10. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel (English, 21.1) 9. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew, 19.1) 8. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (English, 18.1) 7. Reverie (The Poetic Underground #1) - Erin Hanson (English, 12.1) 6. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (Russian, 12.1) 5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy (English, 8.1) 4. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 8.1) 3. Art Matters - Neil Gaiman (illustrated by Chris Riddell) (English, 4.1) 2. Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi (English, 3.1) 1. A Simple Favor - Darcey Bell (English, 1.1)

#and here we go :)#im afraid this will become annoying soon #oh well #books tag #2020 books

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scientificphilosopher · 6 years ago

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Book List 2018

I’m a couple weeks behind on this, but here’s the list of books I read in 2018. I’ve broken it down by category, though this is pretty loose since, you know, genres bleed into one another and such. You can also find reviews of some of these books here, and I always take requests for reviews as well. Follow me on Goodreads to see what I’m reading and rating.

Let me know what you think if you’ve read any of these books or have recommendations, and, as always, please feel free to send me malicious personal attacks if I say something you disagree with.

Non-Fiction

Philosophy

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried

The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein

Race Matters by Cornel West

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag

Ethics Without Ontology by Hilary Putnam

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf

The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love by Susan Wolf

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World by Owen J. Flanagan

Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz

The Human Eros: Eco-Ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence by Thomas Alexander

Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro (Editor), David Macarthur (Editor)

Truth in Context: An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity by Michael P. Lynch

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer

The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment by Robert Wright

A Defense of Buddhist Virtue Ethics by Jack Hamblin

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams

Reality, Art and Illusion by Alan Watts

Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett

Science

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us by Richard O. Prum

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne

What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

The Physics of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku

The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

Visions for the 21st Century by Carl Sagan et al.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo

The Virgin and the Mousetrap: Essays in Search of the Soul of Science by Chet Raymo

Politics/Race/Gender

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (editor)

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Race Matters by Cornel West

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Tears We Cannot Stand: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

The Common Good by Robert Reich

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Memoir

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility by Thordis Elva

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker

The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

My Own Life by David Hume

Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

Calypso by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Ink Spots by Brian McDonald

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

History/Biography

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

God: A Human History by Reza Aslan

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang

Fiction

Literary Fiction

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Another Country by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Home by Toni Morrison

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

The Dead by James Joyce

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

A Confederacy of Dunces by Jonh Kennedy Toole

The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo

Genre Fiction

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Slice of Life by Kurt Vonnegut

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Pure Drivel by Steve Martin

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Green Mile by Stephen King

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 by Lemony Snicket

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Worst of 2018

Every single book I read this past year had redemptive value. Even if it was total garbage, it still taught me some stuff (like how not to write a book). Even a bad book can be a good book if you let it be.

So, here’re a few books that didn’t quite hit the spot for me:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Ink Spots by Brian McDonald

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Best of 2018

It was genuinely difficult to choose my top books of 2018. What a literary year it has been for me. 2018 marks the most books I’ve read in a year, and I was lucky enough to come across some real game-changers. I finally read the Harry Potter series and, boy howdy, did it ever live up to the hype. What took me so long?? But this was, more than anything, the year of James Baldwin. He has made an indelible mark on me as a reader, a writer, and a human. What a year this has been! I hope to read a fraction as much beautiful, lovely, challenging, profound prose in 2019.

In no particular order, here are the books of 2018 that most moved me, shook me, rattled me, rolled me:

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried

The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Well, there you have it, folks. Here’s to many more good books in the years to come!

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. —Ursula K. Le Guin

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