data science researcher, ex software deveveloper, pole dancer, bibliophile, interested in machine learning, comp neuroscience, sociology. I read a bit of (almost) everything. 🇸🇬🇦🇺🇩🇪
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18% complete! Tania has read 5 of 27 books.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder. It arises because of that eye.
— An Immense World by Ed Yong
One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, …
The act of giving something up does not merely clear time and mental space to focus you. It’s a ritual, too, an offering where you sacrifice a portion of your life to the metaphoric gods of creation. Instead of goats or cattle, we’re sacrificing television or music or numbers—and what is a sacrifice but a ritual?
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
We don’t create a tactile scene of the world, even though we can feel with every part of our skin. Indeed, we largely ignore those sensations until something pokes us (or vice versa). And when we feel something unexpected, our most common reaction is to turn and look at it. Perhaps for a scallop, smell (not vision) is the fine-grained exploration sense and vision (not touch) is the crude, whole-body detection sense.
— An Immense World by Ed Yong
Not quite as good as The Handmaid's Tale, which it strongly reminded me of, but still a cleverly crafted page-turner.
... irdengwie hatte ich auch ein bisschen Lust, mich einfach mal achtsam zu betrinken.
Enjoyed learning about the Camino via this easy and enjoyable read. It has definitely helped me to make up my mind not to do the Camino myself. At least not the one the authors did.
In fact, James had showed up just in time. What he lacked in life he made up for in bones. He failed as a human being but succeeded brilliantly as a corpse. Despite being a headless fisherman with just nine conversions to his name, he appeared to the Spanish army as a heavenly warrior at the battle of Clavijo in 844, when Ramiro I of León defeated the Moors. Our hero had major spin applied; Jimmy the Fish became Santiago Matamoros, the Moor-slayer, a sort of Donald Rumsfeld in holy orders.
— The year we seized the day by Elizabeth Best, Colin Bowles
Collection of short stories.
The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
After a strong start in the first few chapters I was struggling to get through the rest. The writing was plain and disjointed, the plot and characters thin, and it often read more like journalism, some climate change manifesto or a physics lecture, rather than fiction.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about …
This was so well written. I love Doerr's beautiful descriptive style and the way he interweaves the stories of the characters intricately together.
Minus half a star because it didn't make me shed as many tears as such a powerful story should have. I can't really tell why. Maybe it was just my mood and I may need to reread it sometime and update my rating o 5 stars. Its definitely worth a read and a reread in any case.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about …
The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. Vega maybe. Or Venus.
— All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Page 202)
I love Doerr's descriptions.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
“If things feel” like this or that: these feelings too are linked to periodization, because our feelings are not just biological, but also social and cultural and therefore historical. Raymond Williams called this cultural shaping a “structure of feeling,” and this is a very useful concept for trying to comprehend differences in cultures through time. Of course as mammals we feel emotions that are basic and constant: fear, anger, hope, love. But we comprehend these biological emotions by way of language, thereby organizing them into systems of emotions that are different in different cultures and over time. Thus for instance, famously, romantic love means different things in different cultures at different times; consider ancient Greece, China, medieval Europe, anywhere.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
His therapists talked about trigger events. About avoiding triggers. What they were glossing over with this too-convenient metaphor was that life itself was just a long series of trigger events. That consciousness was the trigger. He woke up, he remembered who he was, he had a panic attack.
