I just started A Confederacy of Dunces and 30 pages in, I can tell I'm going to love it
So what is everyone reading? A new book or re-visiting an old one? Something amazing or are you struggling to finish it?
Health policy and statistics. Just started a master’s program, on top of my full time job, which hasn’t left much time for recreational.... anything.
Per a recommendation post I already earlier today, I just finished Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Hawking. If you're a little nerdy, it's a good read. I'm now onto Deer hunting with Jesus by Bageant.
Grant by Chernow. Really good. He was a much better general than people know.
I finished "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari and am now reading the sequel, as it were, called "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"
Harari has an unorthodox take on human history, beginning far back into prehistory. Rather than the standard history textbook's beginning at the start of the written record, with a quick gloss over the prehistoric, he devotes four chapters to what he calls the "Cognitive Revolution".
Homo Deus continues the story by speculating what path human history will take in both the near and distant future. He renames the Holocene Epoch as the Anthropocene Epoch, due to the impact Homo sapiens has had on the global ecology over the last 70,000 years.
Both books are highly recommended if you enjoy history and speculation on our future presented in a more irreverent style than found in standard academic books.
I read A Confederacy of Dunces a few years ago and enjoyed it. A very different tale, indeed. I'm presently reading Never Coming Back by Alison McGhee.
A confederacy of dunces is magnificent!! As a followup, if you've not read Tom Robins' Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, you'll find a completely different story with the same loving charms. Matter of (opinion) fact, you'll probably really dig any Robbins, and most likely all of Vonnegut, if you love CODunces.