Reading two books, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen.
"The Devil's Cup" is great! He also has "In the Devil's garden", which is quite good as well. It presents the history of food in terms of the seven deadly sins.
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#52Currently reading Cibola Burn - the 4th in the Expanse series by James SA Corey. Very good hard-ish SF series.
I also just finished Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull's book about Pixar. Extremely valuable insights about running a creative organization.
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#53Plowing the Dark-Richard Powers
I have tried to finish this book three times, but I have had to start at the beginning each time. The plot is dense and I can't jump back in after ~150 pages and a month of not reading it.
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#54"Good Math: A Geek's Guide to the Beauty of Numbers, Logic, and Computation" by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
"Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement" by Eric Redmond and Jim R. Wilson
"The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition" by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
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#55Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold and the rest of the Vorkosigan Saga
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#56Replay: Ken Grimwood (Second time reading is even better)
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#57I'm halfway through the last volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and I admit I'm proud of it. I don't know what can be said in a small space about a novel so large and canonical, but I've deeply enjoyed it. An unexpected quirk of the novel is that though I've been heavily absorbed in it the whole way, and found it moving, funny, and in general a complete literary experience, I can't really recommend it to othe…
Translation or in French?
I hoped my French would be up to Proust, but sadly it wasn't, and I didn't want re-learning French to be an impediment to the enjoyment of the story. So I've read the Enright versions.
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#58Just started The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17660462
It's been pretty good so far.
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#59Currently re-reading "Escape From Reason" by Francis Schaeffer. Interesting as a history of western thought, even if you don't buy his conclusions. It's concise to the point of terseness, though - you're going to have to fill in some blanks that he doesn't.
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#60I'm halfway through the last volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and I admit I'm proud of it. I don't know what can be said in a small space about a novel so large and canonical, but I've deeply enjoyed it. An unexpected quirk of the novel is that though I've been heavily absorbed in it the whole way, and found it moving, funny, and in general a complete literary experience, I can't really recommend it to othe…
One summer in high school I decided to read In Search of Lost Time before school started up again.
I only made my way through Swann's Way (the first of seven books in the series), but I'm so glad I did. I think it was probably the toughest piece of literature I'd ever read, but one of the most rewarding by far.