I must admit that I have never read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I am correcting that omission now and this has been prompted by a few paragraphs in the excellent essay by Irene Vajello… Read More »Now Reading: Fahrenheit 451
Very appropriately for a book relating the audacious story/history of the invention of books, I am reading this fantastic volume in physical book format. I got this as a gift and I can’t wait to… Read More »Now Reading: El Infinito en un Junco
Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization by Virgina Postrel From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, this book covers a global history of textiles and the world they made driving technology, business, politics, and culture. The… Read More »Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization
Now reading “Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life” by Héctor García and Frances Miralles. According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—what a French philosopher might call a raison d’être. Some… Read More »Now Reading: “Ikigai”
Now reading: Rabid, A cultural history of the World’s most diabolical virus , by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Now Reading: Sentient by Jackie Higgins After reading a review of this book in the Guardian, I thought it was a good book to add to my list. Jackie Higgins explains how the animal kingdom… Read More »Now Reading: Sentient
Now reading: The Disordered Mind by Erik R. Kandel. What unusual brain tell us about ourselves.
It is one (or actually several) of those books you have always heard something about, but actually never read it… Now Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert. I think it is high time I change that.… Read More »Now Reading: Dune
Now Reading: Dark Data by David Hand I first came across a mention of this book in the Summer 2020 number of Imperial, the magazine for the Imperial College Community in a feature note about… Read More »Now Reading: Dark Data
