To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
After finishing “The Master and Margarita”, I started reading earlier this week “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I wanted to start with Ishiguro a few months ago and I was kind of undecided between this and “Never Let Me Go”, which I nominated for the next bookclub.
I'm currently on page 70 and so far I'm enjoying it. The main character is an old Butler who's kind of of a sperg. His new american boss gives him a few days off and he goes on a roadtrip through the English countryside to visit the old Housekeeper who left the Manor 20 years before while revisiting his memories from the time she worked there.
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Reading "The First Fossil Hunters" by Adrienne Mayor. An analysis of ancient monster myths and primary accounts and retellings of ancient societies and their unknowing discovery and study of fossils. Pretty good
!bookworms Any good history lit from dramneurodivergents?
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I recently read the two book series on dinosaurs and where mammals came
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35820369-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs
https://www.goodreads.com/cs/book/show/58986604
I listen to non fiction books like these when I'm driving and these 2 were very good
Finding out humans evolved from a glorified ground squirrel was super interesting
https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/revealing-genome-common-ancestor-all-mammals
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If you're interested in something in a similar vein but nonfiction, Evolution by Stephen Baxter is a sci fi book that's essentially a series of short stories about human evolution from thay little vole guy, well the first third is from the extinction of the dinosaurs up till hominids, the second third is hominid evolution up to modern humans, and the last third evolution of humans into various post human species
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Empire by Niall Ferguson is an interesting take on the British Empire
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