What are you currently reading?

[pakarinen]

Another one of Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti murder mysteries.

I almost bought a copy of Ovid's "Metamorphosis" yesterday for something completely different but it was $26 and I was feeling cheap.

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Just completed: "Round Up The Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca - Bogart, Bergman, and World War II" by Aljean Harmetz, 1992, 402 pages.

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Considered by many to be the best film ever made (certainly the best I have seen), the backstories make this profile a great adventure.



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[Pikaia]

Tales of Impossibility, by David Richeson.

The story of the four great unsolved mathematical problems of antiquity: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle, doubling the cube, and constructing a regular polygon with a given number of sides. It was not until 1837 that three of these problems were proved to be impossible, remarkably in a single page of mathematics by Pierre Wantzel. Surprisingly, he is very little known even by mathematicians, and his Wiki page is very short. (Squaring the circle was proved to be impossible even later). Equally surprising, it IS possible to construct a regular 17-sided polygon (one construction is given, which is quite simple)!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444 ... R1j&rank=1

[Ylem]

Tales of Impossibility, by David Richeson.

The story of the four great unsolved mathematical problems of antiquity: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle, doubling the cube, and constructing a regular polygon with a given number of sides. It was not until 1837 that three of these problems were proved to be impossible, remarkably in a single page of mathematics by the Pierre Wantzel. Surprisingly, he is very little known even by mathematicians, and his Wiki page is very short. (Squaring the circle was proved to be impossible even later). Equally surprising, it IS possible to construct a regular 17-sided polygon (one construction is given, which is quite simple)!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444 ... R1j&rank=1

That sounds like a fun read

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Just completed: "Surely You Can't Be Serious, The True Story Of Airplane!" by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, 2023, 345 pages.

If you liked the film, surely, you'll like the book.



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Just completed: "Hijacking America's Mind On 9/11, Counterfeiting Evidence" by Elias Davidsson, 2013, 328 pages.

Planes? What planes?


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Just completed: "Plague Of Corruption, Restoring Faith In The Promise Of Science" by Dr. Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively, JD, 2020, 221 pages.


And you thought medical science was about treating human illness....




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Just completed: "Against All Odds, A True Story Of Ultimate Courage And Survival In World War II" by Alex Kershaw, 2022, 351 pages.


A well-written account of men doing extraordinary things.


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Just completed: "Unreasonable Behavior" by Don McCullin, 2015, 383 pages.

Photography only a hobby for me, thank God.


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Just completed: "Traced, Human DNA's Big Surprise" by Nathaniel T. Jeanson, 2021. 251 pages.

Discovering ancestral lines through sequencing Y chromosomal haplogroups.


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Just completed: "What Do White Americans Owe Black People? Racial Justice In The Age Of Post-Oppression" by Jason D. Hill, 2021, 231 pages.

A thorough and stimulating examination of the question.


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Just completed: "The User Illusion, Cutting Consciousness Down To Size" by Tor Norretranders, 1998 (English translation), 467 pages.

Whew, a tremendous amount contained herein, entertainingly written.


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[Graeme1858]

Just completed: "The User Illusion, Cutting Consciousness Down To Size" by Tor Norretranders,

The review says "In any given second, we consciously process only sixteen of the eleven million bits of information our senses pass on to our brains."

I'm probably lucky to get into double figures these days!

Graeme