To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm still haven't finished Père Goriot and I began to re-read Crime and Punishment as It's been almost a decade since I read it and I was gifted a new and pretty hardcover edition. I forgot how neurodivergent the characters acted, I'm not talking about Raskolnikov but Luzhin for instance behaves and talks so strangely in his first meeting with his future brother in law and co., he first comes out as arrogant, then clueless with a "fellow kids" vibe. Marmeladov's rambling at the tavern was longer than I remembered, and what a pathetic and wretched person he is.
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I read QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. It's basically an "advanced-level" popular science book about quantum electrodynamics. It's a short read, only a few hours tops, and reads similar to the 4 lectures it's based on. Definitely a fun read if you're interested in the subject, but don't necessarily want to crack open a few large quantum dynamics textbooks to get a sense of what's going on.
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