Sad boy times.

Started Crime and Punishment. Holy shit is it miserable and full of despair.

The Crusades by Thomas Asbride

The Better Brain about nutrition and depression/anxiety etc.

I wrapped up American Civil War: An English View by Field Marshall Viscount Wolesley

This guy was stationed in Canada during the American Civil War, felt like he was only getting the Northern perspective, and took leave and smuggled himself South This book is a collection of notes from his experience there and some essays he wrote on the war 20 years later in a military magazine.

I'm not a Civil War turbo neurodivergent so some of the battles and names went over my head but it's clear that Wolesley knew what he was talking about in his military analysis. He over and over again at both sides' lack of ability to deliver a decisive punishing blow when they had the upper hand and imo deals fairly with both even though he disagreed strongly with slavery.

He takes a special interest in amphibious assaults as well (since Bongland is an island).

I rented a complete Father Brown collection from my library and am about a quarter of the way through it. It's like Sherlock Holmes but Catholic. !Catholics I strongly recommend it!

Under the green star

I'm reading Dune after digging out my 10yr old Kindle. I like it so far

Reading up on Linux lol

Three Body Problem. It was a @Dramamine recommendation of a carp recommendation.

I'm really enjoying it. Berry, berry good

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I just finished Topographia Hibernica and I really liked it. Especially the story where one scrote bit another scrote's butthole in a gym locker room as a form of dominance.

I think I'm gonna go for something by Baudrillard next? Or a manga, because Dungeon Meshi is so good and I don't want to have to wait for more story once this season is over.

Still reading CIRCLE OF INEVITABILITY.

Lumian is currently chasing lizard men while trying to find (and kill) a bunch of pranksters that made fun of his sister.

Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor (1963). Great pacing and narrative for such a big topic. I may be a chuddie and the author is a jewish chad but its a great book.

Also reading "The Sword of Christ" about Martin Luther and the argument against "uh the New Testament is Jewish propaganda". Its interesting so read it BIPOC I dont need your Richard Spencer or Vaush screed, ive heard it a million times.

I just read Bowling Alone which is a 90s NPR golden era of sociology about why the social fabric has decayed. Dry but interesting.

2 months ago I read skateboarder Rodney Mullens autobiography in 1 day. Best book ive read in a while. Fellow neurodivergents will love it.

Read the second what if book by Randall Munroe.

Dunno why even as it's not that great, or funny, or interesting.

The Graves are Walking about the Irish potato famine. I like it so far, it's interesting. The writing sometimes loses me thought and I can't put my finger on why. Might just be that I've been tired recently

It's a great book!!

The Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo. Really enjoying the story and how it's all coming together.

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Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone. Trying to read it for the first time in French. It's really boring so far. Should have gone for tropic of cancer instead tbh.

Almost done with Dark Tower - Wolves of the Callah. 91% of the way through and King just realized "oh shit I wrote another 600 pages of backstory, there's supposed to be some wolves or something in this"

Elixir in Action

I'm trying to write a book about a North Korean escaping with her family. Ah-Che

Demon Princes / Jack Vance

I'm reading the Cormoran Strike novels. I happened upon the TV show on an airplane and was like "sure, i got an hour to kill" and got hooked and watched all of it and now I'm going through all the novels at a breakneck pace. Our lady Rowling has got me

The Flowers of Evil - Baudelaire. Having some trouble with the Portuguese translation though; every once in a while I need to translate some verses from French to English to get the intended meaning.

House on the borderlands

I bought a few books off my reading list this month. I think I am going to start with The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann.

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In the Distance by Hernan Diaz. In the 1800s, a naive, penniless, non-Engish speaking Swedish boy gets separated from his brother on his way to New York, ending up instead in San Francisco. The book follows his journey trying to reunite with his brother.

The book was pretty good. Unfortunately, I found myself comparing it to Blood Meridian, which is way better, especially re: the darker scenes.

The worst scene was when the wise Native American healer knows to boil medical cowtools in water and wash hands with alcohol, showing how the Natives were soooo much smarter than Western medicine.

The author uses "charqui" instead of "jerky" and "cañon" instead of "canyon" in order to ... de-colonize literature I guess.

Not surprisingly, the author is the child of Argentinian leftists who fled to Sweden. @neoconshill

Got a copy of Arabian Nights so decided to read about that

also some illustrations of mosque constructions because that's neat.

Breakfast of Champions. By the Slaughterhouse 5 () guy. Written in a similar style, but without so much kraut sympathy. He does a lot of switching between the book/books inside the book/his own life which is interesting. I think its pretty good so far

just started fahrenheit 451 got it from my local library, still has an old butt library card in it.

Just a bunch of bacteriophage papers atm since I have to do a seminar on bacteriophage downstream processing in March

I think I burned myself out a couple months ago, I'm going to try and get back into it again sometime before February.

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