I am currently slogging through the new 2,000 page biography on Abraham Lincoln: A Life, along with half a dozen other books I’ve started but not finished.
Well, since this IS Formula 1 season , and with all the work of keeping up with the practices, qualifying and racing, as well as the latest in the F1 soap operas (Brawn and Red Bull have just come out of nowhere!), I pick up a book to keep me busy between races and when I’m not on the golf course—-I’m reading God the failed hypothesis..... great book!
I’m reading Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason and John Schofield’s Forty-Six Years in the Army to hold me over until I can gather change to purchase a new book. I’m considering either the latest from Hitchens, Dawkins or Harris. I’m also considering Why I’m Not a Muslim. If anyone can make a recommendation, I would appreciate it!
Well, since this IS Formula 1 season , and with all the work of keeping up with the practices, qualifying and racing, as well as the latest in the F1 soap operas (Brawn and Red Bull have just come out of nowhere!), I pick up a book to keep me busy between races and when I’m not on the golf course—-I’m reading God the failed hypothesis..... great book!
Who are you cheering on for the WDC? I’m on the Vettel bandwagon. The kid just has so much natural talent. Same here though, reading between race weekends! Also, GREAT year for F1 soap operas…
Well, since this IS Formula 1 season , and with all the work of keeping up with the practices, qualifying and racing, as well as the latest in the F1 soap operas (Brawn and Red Bull have just come out of nowhere!), I pick up a book to keep me busy between races and when I’m not on the golf course—-I’m reading God the failed hypothesis..... great book!
Who are you cheering on for the WDC? I’m on the Vettel bandwagon. The kid just has so much natural talent. Same here though, reading between race weekends! Also, GREAT year for F1 soap operas…
I’m going to start a new thread before we get busted for being off topic!!
I started a new thread in General Discussion!
I’m going back and forth between three good books: Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce and The black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. For fun I’m reading; Word Myths by David Wilton—not as good as the others.
Currently reading “Cancun and Yucatan for Dummies” and “The Folk Culture of Yucatan”. Also a Maya/Spanish/English phrasebook; apparently a lot of people out in the nether regions of the Yucatan don’t speak Spanish much better than I do, and their primary language is still Maya. (as you probably figured out, we’re planning a trip to Yucatan near the end of the year .
An associated question—and in this postmodern age, perhaps even more revealing—would be: what podcasts are you listening to? Here’s mine:
PoI of course.
Radio Ireland RTE
France-Culture (news headlines en francais)
The Celtic Myth Podshow
plus Spanish lessons for the aforementioned Yuc trek.
I’m reading Gene Roddenberry biography by David Alexander, still and “Christ in Egypt” by D.M. Murdock currently. I generally have a Star Trek book of some sort going at the same time I read something non-fiction. I did have four books going at once, but just finished the two shorter books.
I’m currently reading The Quantum World by Kenneth Ford. It’s a great explanation of quantum physics for those of use who have not studied higher math. My next book in queue is Algebra for Dummies, which I need to finish before classes start August 24.
, and with all the work of keeping up with the practices, qualifying and racing, as well as the latest in the F1 soap operas (Brawn and Red Bull have just come out of nowhere!), I pick up a book to keep me busy between races and when I’m not on the golf course—-I’m reading God the failed hypothesis..... great book!
