Falko wants to read Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying …
This sounds like a fun read :)
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reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Falko wants to read Land der Frauen by María Sánchez
María Sánchez ist Landtierärztin - ein körperlich sehr herausfordernder Beruf, der in ihrer Familie bisher …
Just saw a short documentary on arte.tv about this. Remarkable quote: I'm the sister of an only child.
Just saw a short documentary on arte.tv about this. Remarkable quote: I'm the sister of an only child.
Falko reviewed Drystone by Kristie De Garis
disturbing, powerful, encouraging
5 stars
It's painful and disturbing at times. But also beautiful and enticing. Kristie De Garis has a very unique and refreshing style of writing. Her honesty is brutal and she does not spare anyone when she writes about racism, sexism, rape and addiction. Not even herself. It's embarrassing to read as a man what she had to experience and how she was treated. Likely still is treated today. But she found her way to deal with it and not collapse. Instead she puts her experiences into beautiful and powerful sentences, paragraphs, essays and a book eventually.
It's painful and disturbing at times. But also beautiful and enticing. Kristie De Garis has a very unique and refreshing style of writing. Her honesty is brutal and she does not spare anyone when she writes about racism, sexism, rape and addiction. Not even herself. It's embarrassing to read as a man what she had to experience and how she was treated. Likely still is treated today. But she found her way to deal with it and not collapse. Instead she puts her experiences into beautiful and powerful sentences, paragraphs, essays and a book eventually.
Falko wants to read A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Because @kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot recommended it
Falko reviewed The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat
"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but …
This "book" should have been a blog post
1 star
while the gist of this "book" is somewhat useful, it's really not more content then for a short to medium length blog post. The rest if fluff and repetition.
while the gist of this "book" is somewhat useful, it's really not more content then for a short to medium length blog post. The rest if fluff and repetition.
Falko finished reading Drystone by Kristie De Garis
Wow. This was intense but beautiful. I'll have to post some quotes later on.
Wow. This was intense but beautiful. I'll have to post some quotes later on.
Falko started reading Drystone by Kristie De Garis
Finally being able to read it :)
Falko finished reading The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat
"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but …
This "book" could have been just like 2 or 3 pages. If you read page 101-105 you're good.
This "book" could have been just like 2 or 3 pages. If you read page 101-105 you're good.
Falko rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 5 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Falko finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Finally, dear reader, we dedicated this one to you, and we meant it. Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.
Falko commented on The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
still an awesome read and dive into the latest research on the origins of human society and capitalism at large.
Falko commented on The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Very good reading and insights so far.
Falko stopped reading Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, …
Putting this aside for a moment. It's interesting but also rather repetitive. Comment from a friend who tried it as well: "This should have been a blog post"
Putting this aside for a moment. It's interesting but also rather repetitive. Comment from a friend who tried it as well: "This should have been a blog post"
Falko wants to read Exact thinking in demented times by Karl Sigmund
The philosophy of science between the two world wars, 1920s-1930s.
putting this in my list as follow up from the Kirz Gödel biography. More insight into the Vienna circle of outstanding thinkers
Falko finished reading Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Phenomenal person and an awesome book.