What book are you reading?

[North Yuan]

"Persian Fire" (by Robert Marshall) it is a book about Persia,Sparta,Athens the Persian invasion of Greece and the fall of Persia.


I find it very interesting to learn more in depth about these civilizations

[Ellbonnia]

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein; I've never been a STEM whiz, and the only reason I'm reading this is for my college class.

[The Grene Knyght]

Re-reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[Chemernity]

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

[Bombadil]

Finally got around to reading a Max Barry book - though I’d read the initial excerpts of Machine Man when he was publicly posting the first few chapters - but just finished Lexicon, which is genuinely superb.

Hat tip.

[Big Bad Blue]

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Don't be put off by the thickness, it's a rollicking history a la Barbara Tuchman with short, easily digested chapters. Some gleanings so far:

A racist idea is any idea that individuals of any race are better or worse than those of another race in any area of achievement simply because of their race.

It is not the case that hate, ignorance and fear give rise to racist ideas that result in racist policies. Rather, racist policies are justified by racist ideas that give rise to hate, ignorance and fear. It's not necessary therefore to change human hearts in order to eradicate racism; all that is needed is to eradicate racist policies.

Some enslavers objected to Christianizing the people they enslaved because they felt if they did they would have to meet them in Christian Heaven. Wrap your mind around that one.

During a smallpox outbreak in Boston in the early 18th Century Cotton Mather learned from a man he enslaved that he had been inoculated against the virulent disease while in Africa by having matter from a smallpox pustule scratched into his skin with a plant thorn. Mather advocated the same treatment but was opposed by physicians who claimed the lying Blacks were simply trying to infect their enslavers. Some things never change do they.

[Partybus]

Re-reading The Dice Man by George Cockcroft. I forgot what a disturbing, strange, and entertaining book this is.

[Soveiniesberg]

I'm reading Dead Ground by M.W. Craven.

[Elwher]

Simms and Laderman - Hitler's American Gamble

[The Orwell Society]

The Order by Jeremy Robinson

[Hwiteard]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[The Grene Knyght]

Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver)

[Radiatia]

Ulysses by James Joyce

[Pax Nerdvana]

The Runelords David Farland

[Ethel mermania]

Southern storm. Sherman's March to the sea

-- Noah Trudeau

[The Grene Knyght]

Re-Reading The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss

Edit: Also read The Slow Regard of SIlent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

[Lirza]

Currently reading Ward whenever I'm not playing FNV or busy with work. Got a bunch of goodies (Dune, some Bradbury stuff) in line but Ward is a thiccc read so it might take a while to get to those.

[The Grene Knyght]

The Stand (Complete & Uncut Edition), by Stephen King

[Riam]

The Bhagavad Gita, again.

[Hamidiye]

[Difinbelk]

Sarah Kapit’s The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family, young adult so it’s fairly easy content but I’m really enjoying it so far.

[Radiatia]

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

[Frisemark]

Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne

Rereading it, finished it a few days ago. Great book. This and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee are two books I think every American should read.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

the very best of barry n. malzberg (2013)

[Red Lake Circle]

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid