What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

Very different way to tell the tale and very enjoyable. Unique meme. Second book in the series is a long one .....yay

[Sean Hayden]

This was a good read with some interesting insights. It is repetitive though, and some of the evidence used to support his reasoning is likely subject to serious debate eg in a few places early on he brings up fmri and suggests the imaging reveals something of what a voter actually wants.

There are several interesting attempts to refute common ie known to me a layperson arguments for democracy, as well as the more sophisticated defenses put up by political scientists and philosophers which make it worth reading.

[macdoc]

Blight of Blackwings ...Book 2 in the Bone Giant series....crazy imginative ..very unique.

[JimC]

I'm re-reading the Virgil Flowers crime novels by John Sanford, set in rural Minnesota...

[Brian Peacock]

Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber. Grim, funny, and ridiculous in equal measure. Really well written though.

[Tero]

My books on the night stand and a few coming are on Estonia and the Baltics. Hoping to visit Tallinn and Riga in a year or two.

I even got a used book teaching Estonian. It sounds like Finnish but a good third of the words have no resemblance to each other, the words for the same thing. Sounds like this:



The title is that the world is ringing (in music) but in Finnish heliseb sounds like rattling. The words are related in that manner, "false friends."

[Tero]

The whole country seems to be obsessed with singing. And fucking, it seems.



Maa tuleb täita lastega

The land must be filled with children

[Tero]

I'm reading some song lyrics, and the verbs and nouns take the same form as in Finnish. We use cases in nouns instead of prepositions. The endings are all the same.

[Sean Hayden]

I picked this pipedream bullshit up on Peacock's recommendation. I'll start it later today.

[Brian Peacock]

[Sean Hayden]

[JimC]

Not showing, Sean...

[Brian Peacock]

'Entangled Life' Jim, by Merlin Sheldrake (good druid name there). It's about fungi.

[JimC]

Might see if they have it in our Library...

[macdoc]

noumenom trilogy.

typing one handed as carpal tunnel surgery today,