here’s the 3 books im reading at the moment :)

i saw this one posted about a bunch on the bear website, im about a quarter of the way through and i can say it’s already taught me a lot about myself. the author discusses at length the challenges faced by primarily autistic people, but also adhd people, and neurodiverse people in general. im going to make my girlfriend read it too >:^)

this is quite a well written biography of the ancient chinese poet li bai, we follow li through his life as he struggles to be taken seriously by the chinese elite. the author does seem to be a lib though and it comes through a couple of times.

this is i think pynchon’s debut novel, im about 70% through. im not sure what to make of it: beautiful prose, harsh realities, im thoroughly engrossed and also feel as though i have no idea what’s going on. the book lights up all the right parts of my brain for conspiracy shit

i recently finished anna karenina, it’s my favourite book. Lenin on Tolstoy: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1910/nov/16d.htm

I am reading The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History as a preparation for my next read, which is Perceptions of Iran: History Myths And Nationalism From Medieval Persia To The Islamic Republic by Ali Ansari. One thing that the coauthors of the Oxford handbook have specially mentioned was the sense of national identity that premodern Iranians enjoyed, but it remains a very controversial subject. So I am intrigued to know how Ansari handles that question.

Currently going through Unjust Depths, at around ch 12. Reading Losurdo’s book on Liberalism, quite slow though

Nonfiction: Algebraic Geometry by Daniel Perrin

Fiction: Using Algebraic Geometry by David A. Cox

Chinese:

• A lot of Mandarin Chinese graded reader short stories. Mostly on DuChinese. Their Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptation is good so far

English:

• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
• Fifth Sun, a New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

I’m reading Crime and Punishment, as for manga, a lot of thing simultaneously, i don’t have any further reading on the queue tho, trying to first finish crime and punishment to practice a little my reading(i have difficulty reading, tv baby and whatnot) to see if i can read better, go to theory or at least familiarize myself with world literature with a focus in my country

Currently this its about China good so far. Next Im gona read “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” and then “State and Revolution”

State and Revolution That’s a good book, I’d better take it with me again. (Does anyone get this reference?)

Fic: All Quiet on the Western Front, What is to be done? (Chernyshevsky). Both decent.

Nonfic: Capital, After Virtue (weird Marxish book about morality).

Plan: Good Sugar Bad Sugar, How to Blow up a Pipeline, The Global Perspective, and more

Obviously I’m obsessively listening and re-listening to Unmasking Autism for the book club. Besides that I’m trying to start reading “Cybernetic Revolutionaries”, but I haven’t found much time lately.

I also got a stash of physical books, but they’re mostly in Portuguese and I haven’t started going through them yet.

So much curiosity, so little time.

Sapolsky is good, might have to read that book sooner or later:

Non-fiction: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Euthyphro (technically historical fiction maybe?; re-reading & re-reading it), Marx in the Anthropocene, I dropped like 5-6 books after reading a few pages because I didn’t vibe.

Fiction: Notes from Underground, I wanna read Brothers Karamazov but it looks way too long.