Endless started reading The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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I married a librarian and want to make a profile she'd be proud of. I love children's, YA, Fantasy, Linguistics, Philosophy, and History of Science. I study narrative as a mental technology.
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Endless commented on 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
This chapter (5) is discussing revisionism of history and "reality". Pardon the comparison, but like Atlas Shrugged, the book has a particular idea that it is trying to push (without Rand's preachy tones). With Atlas, the world had an obvious absence of children -- there was simply no place for them in Rand's philosophy.
With 1984, there is an absolute absence of religion. However, this is more a feature of the dystopia Orwell is spinning; the freedom to believe in a higher power is antithetical to the notion of Big Brother (in fact, anti to socialism in general), and this is actually the kind of insight that 1984 provokes. I won't be surprised if the topic of religion is addressed at some point.
Endless finished reading How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah P. Klein
What makes a child succeed…or wander into an unfulfilled adulthood? New research indicates that the …
I liked the thoughts on toddler's playing basically being their work, and fun being their modus operandi. Adults should operate more like that.
Endless started reading How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah P. Klein
What makes a child succeed…or wander into an unfulfilled adulthood? New research indicates that the …
Listening to the audio per my wife's recommendation
Endless rated How Not to Hate Your Husband after Kids: 4 stars
How Not to Hate Your Husband after Kids by Jancee Dunn
How did I become the ‘expert’ at changing a nappy? Jancee Dunn wondered.
This, combined with a lack of sleep, …
Endless finished reading How Not to Hate Your Husband after Kids by Jancee Dunn
How did I become the ‘expert’ at changing a nappy? Jancee Dunn wondered.
This, combined …
Excellent read in a very conversational, personable style. Not a "you should do THIS" manual, but rather, "My husband and I tried this" collection including interviews with major therapists and even the Gottmans by the end. Topics included attitude, finances, sex, chore responsibility, and household clutter, with excellent and hard-investigated insights into each. This isn't some arm-chair thought on bolstering marriage after the game-changer of children; this is real insights from ground-level experience and talk with people who have made helping this situation their vocation in life.
Endless started reading 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
Started listening to Simon Prebbles at 1.5 speed so I can hear the narrator
Endless commented on 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
Listening to this book #2 of my privacy theme
Endless wants to read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book …
I should dip into this one after my current Privacy theme is concluded. Hawking's book must relate to The Order of Time, an excellent 2020 look at time, gravity, and human experience
Endless commented on 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
Started the audio this morning, 1.5 speed so I can still hear the narrators voice
Endless started reading 1984 by George Orwell
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 …
Began the Blackstone edition audio, read by Simon Prebble
Endless started reading Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms by Hubbard, John H.
My favorite linear algebra+ book so far. I find the book both comprehensive and approachable, with an endearing "by the way" style of writing to soften the heaviness of the subject.
Endless wants to read The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Referenced as must-read by David Nolen, as suggested by the Small Talk discussion list, mentioned in Nolen 2021 "ClojureScript in the age of TypeScript"
Endless started reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, #1)
Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong …
Recommended as a starting point in my consideration of privacy and the Nothing To Hide fallacy.
Endless reviewed Superman: Up in the Sky by Andy Kubert
Everything we love about Superman, boldly explored
5 stars
Superman: Up in the Sky is very different than other Superman stories that I've ranked highly lately, such as the Earth One series that are performing a modified re-telling of Superman. Up in the Sky is noteworthy to me precisely because it is so classic: even the artwork seems like the quintessential superman. He flies, he champions, he never gives up -- like All Star Superman¹, he represents the best of Superman's uncompromising standards and pathos. The Up in the Sky volume so unapologetically takes up the Superman that has been beloved for decades and bald-facedly takes on the questions that have been asked in the meta-culture: if Superman raced Flash, who would win? Why is Batman great? What if Superman were stuck in an administrative help line for hours and hours? What scares Superman? What if Superman is forced to compromise his standards in order to save a child? …
Superman: Up in the Sky is very different than other Superman stories that I've ranked highly lately, such as the Earth One series that are performing a modified re-telling of Superman. Up in the Sky is noteworthy to me precisely because it is so classic: even the artwork seems like the quintessential superman. He flies, he champions, he never gives up -- like All Star Superman¹, he represents the best of Superman's uncompromising standards and pathos. The Up in the Sky volume so unapologetically takes up the Superman that has been beloved for decades and bald-facedly takes on the questions that have been asked in the meta-culture: if Superman raced Flash, who would win? Why is Batman great? What if Superman were stuck in an administrative help line for hours and hours? What scares Superman? What if Superman is forced to compromise his standards in order to save a child? It does all this on the way to rescuing a child in need on the other side of the galaxy.
¹ All Star Superman is widely considered one of the best Superman stories of all time, demonstrating "if Superman were dying in three days, how would he spend them, and how would he be remembered?" It has that in common with Up in the Sky: it celebrates the morals that define Superman.