I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarre lifeforms. So far, it hasn’t drawn me in the way Children of Time did, though I’m only about a quarter of the way through.

I read The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken and was struck by similarities to Pratchett, for instance the part where the main character heroically defeats monsters in a wood by using knowledge gleaned from an old encyclopedia that he carries everywhere, and how he ſpeakſ like thiſ when reading aloud from it, and the part about underground camels in Wales. It references The Far-Distant Oxus at one point, which I want to read (a pony adventure story written in 1937 by teenagers).

(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)

For some reason I've been really enjoying stories with endless and well described repeating rooms. Borges' Library of Babel got me started, I have just finished Susanna Clarke's Piranesi - which was so wonderfully described, I don't know if I'll find anything to beat it. I'm now on A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck, which outright mentions Borges' novel. If anyone has any similar recommendations I'd love to hear them.

Rereading Bliss by Peter Carey after opening a 45 year old box o' books from a back shelf in the shed.

It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).

Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y

Civilisations by kenneth clark - an art critic tries to understand western civilization through the "book" of its art.

I'm always reading a few books across a categories.

Fiction: Reaper's Gale, book #7 of the fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Non-fiction(history): Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

And then I'm dabbling in a few books around the math behind and practical hands-on machine learning/deep learning.

Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.

Fiction: It by Stephen King

Non-Fiction: The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre. It's about the KGB spy-turned-MI6 agent Oleg Gordievsky and reads like a thriller.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)

Post Soviet Britain by Abby Innes. Excellent so far (70 pages in).

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.

A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer

Augustine's Confessions

Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge

Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Currently: Moby-Dick and Termination Shock. (That the former gets brought up a lot in the latter is a coincidence.)

"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.

Just finished Dreadnought and started Castles of steel by the same author, Robert K. Massie.

I'm reading The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot for the second time. It's full of gems.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder

Simmons, Dan. The Terror

I'm about 50 pages in, and am entranced with the prose.

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, by Jeremy Utley

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

Designing data intensive applications

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

War and peace - third attempt

“How Can I Help” by Linda Hand

How to get along

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