Against the Grain was eye opening.

In the middle of The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. :up:

Started and finished Sir Gawain and the Green Knight today and just got back from the movie

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Cycles of Time - Sir Roger Penrose

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper Audiobook Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcDyPH8nTJ4

Karl Popper's attempt to make philosophy useful by clearing up some old debates in a non-dogmatic framework. Read by Elyse Hargreaves with permission from the Popper library.

Karl Popper — Cheshire

I love this man so much. It was a true philosopher of science and a good person. Before he passed away at the age of 92, he was still answering all the letters to his disciples. Incredible.

He's been life long guide. I wouldn't be on a philosophy website without Popper. Insists on things making sense; it's refreshing.

The Ambassadors by Henry James

It is one of the funniest books I have ever read. James recommended reading it slowly, perhaps five pages at a time. I sometimes manage only five sentences at a sitting, which may amount to the same thing. When a character meets his friends arriving by train it takes one chapter to get them out of the station. Even then we have to go back to pick up some observations we might have missed. You go to a party and after three or four pages you have just about got across the lawn and sighted some of the guests through the window. Each sentence is a journey and you often arrive holding onto unfamiliar luggage, having unaccountably lost your passport, your return ticket and your left shoe.

On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran

It's exactly like what you'd expect for it to be like.

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? by Neil Davidson

looking forward to this one given @StreetlightX's glowing review

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I keep coming back to that one, over and over.

re-reading:

The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene

After virtue: a study in moral theory. by Alasdair Macintyre.

Plan to read:
Los desamoramientos by Javier Marías.
Oh, what a paradise it seems by John Cheever.

There Is a God by Antony Flew

Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The Word - Haruki Murakami

Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The Word - Haruki Murakami — Noble Dust

Excellent book! One of my favorites from Murakami.

My intro. Looking good so far.

Descriptive Psychology by Franz Brentano

Marshall Sahlins - Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins - Islands of History

...continuing my anthropology kick.

How did you find Against the Grain?

The Epic of Gilgamesh - the most ancient recorded story

For anyone who enjoys Dickens or Victorian literature or just a good fiction, The Eustace Diamonds is quite a gem. I could not put it down.

It was fantastic. I love how so many of the book's 'protagonists' were not human - fire, waterways, rats, plagues, walls, food etc. It really puts nature front and center of politics in a way that I often take too for granted. He's also a very engaging writer in general.

Rereading:

Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within by Colin McGinn

Not much philosophical literature on innateness, unless it's technical linguistic related matters. Great book.

Reading:

The Last House of Needless Street by Catriona Ward

A History of America in Ten Strikes

Erik Loomis

The Epic of Gilgamesh - the most ancient recorded story — Pantagruel

And an awesome story, too. Should be required reading.

Got nagged into joining a reading group at my work, a few months back we started Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

The book is a steaming pile of shit, I do not recommend it at all. Save your time, most of it is just atrocious.

The book is a steaming pile of shit, I do not recommend it at all. Save your time, most of it is just atrocious. — darthbarracuda

Finally I found someone that thinks like me about that stupid ass book! Thank you. I remember getting tired before the page 100...

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A Promised Land
Barack Obama
found it at a used book store

Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity by Graham Oppy