Quickmick Posted December 29, 2016 Posted December 29, 2016 @Neist on the heels of Origin of Species you might consider Kolbert's The 6th Extinction. Neist 1
Neist Posted December 29, 2016 Posted December 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Quickmick said: @Neist on the heels of Origin of Species you might consider Kolbert's The 6th Extinction. Looks right up my alley. I'll add it to the list. Thanks!
NoirFemme Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Currently bouncing between Part I of David Levering Lewis's Du Bois biography, Anne Sebba's Les Parisiennes, Zadie Smith's Swing Time, an anthology of Marita Bonner's writing, and Samantha Pinto's Difficult Diaspora.
VivaLasVegas Posted January 30, 2017 Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) Performing Tourist Places - Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt et. al. Edited January 30, 2017 by VivaLasVegas
Neist Posted January 30, 2017 Posted January 30, 2017 Geez, I haven't posted in here for a while. I've read the following since commenting previously: Silent Spring The Master Switch White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation Janet Browne's Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA The Men Who Stare at Goats The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars Whew! Had to consult the reading log to remember them all. I'm starting a bunch of titles now. I'm in reading groups for Paying the Price, Invention of Nature, The Circle, Hillbilly Elegy, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Ignoring course reading, I'm next diving into Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, and Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. I've only been in graduate school for one semester, but I've quickly learned that graduate school very much elucidates one strength and weaknesses. My super power is the speed of which I can read. My weaknesses are my lack of speed with writing; I'm a tremendously slow writer.
Neist Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 I've been reading Don Quixote. Why haven't a read this book? This book is amazing! pudewen 1
BeepBeepBoop Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 I just started Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. So far it's shaping up to be as insightful and thought-provoking as her other work. seh0517 1
Neist Posted June 8, 2017 Posted June 8, 2017 Anyone reading anything interesting or fun this summer?
rising_star Posted June 8, 2017 Posted June 8, 2017 I read Carol Anderson's White Rage and it was awesome. I also enjoyed Monkey Girl by Edward Humes. Neist 1
cowgirlsdontcry Posted June 9, 2017 Posted June 9, 2017 I had read Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi a couple of years ago for a class. In it she writes about the murder of Emmett Till and the fear that blacks experienced as a result of that murder. There is a new book about his murder out this year titled The Blood of Emmett Till. I already have it. Just read Me Before You and its sequel After You. So a little of a variety of things where I'm at. It's summer and probably the last one I will get to slough off. Neist 1
Kismine Posted June 9, 2017 Posted June 9, 2017 A friend bought me Bolshoi Confidential as a graduation gift, and it's definitely as scandalous as you might imagine. (If not a little melodramatic - but that's how Russian ballet goes...) Neist 1
DGrayson Posted June 10, 2017 Posted June 10, 2017 On 6/8/2017 at 0:17 PM, Neist said: Anyone reading anything interesting or fun this summer? You might like Killer Germs by Barry and David Zimmerman. It's one of my favorite infectious disease books. Some of the other items on your reading list makes me think you might enjoy it! Neist 1
a.n.d Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 Just finished up Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis, which are pretty good reads. Time travelling, world war ii; a good look at the background and the people that weren't front and center during the war.
gsc Posted June 14, 2017 Posted June 14, 2017 14 hours ago, a.n.d said: Just finished up Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis, which are pretty good reads. Time travelling, world war ii; a good look at the background and the people that weren't front and center during the war. Connie Willis also wrote Doomsday Book (1992), which features her time-traveling historians during the Black Death — another good read if you like science fiction in your history.
Neist Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 On 6/10/2017 at 2:22 PM, DGrayson said: You might like Killer Germs by Barry and David Zimmerman. It's one of my favorite infectious disease books. Some of the other items on your reading list makes me think you might enjoy it! Sounds really interesting! I'll definitely put it on the list. I just finished Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch And The Discovery Of The Honeybee Language by Tania Munz. I attended a talk by her earlier this spring, and the book was on my list. Just got around to reading it.
a.n.d Posted June 22, 2017 Posted June 22, 2017 On 6/14/2017 at 1:04 PM, gsc said: Connie Willis also wrote Doomsday Book (1992), which features her time-traveling historians during the Black Death — another good read if you like science fiction in your history. Ooh, thank you for the rec! I'll definitely add that to my list.
Neist Posted January 22, 2018 Posted January 22, 2018 Currently reading Making Modern Science, A People's History of Science, and Nature's Economy. That's a lot of book to review over the course of a few days. Think my brain is beginning to fry.
derHistoriker Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 I’m currently reading The Italian by Ann Radcliffe.
Yellow Mellow Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) I am currently reading a bunch of very interesting books on the environment and science: Bill Cronon's Nature's Metropolis, Pablo Gomez's The Experiential Caribbean, and the more general Science and Civil Society, by Lynn Nyhart. Truly great books by very interesting scholars! Edited January 23, 2018 by Yellow Mellow Imenol 1
astroid88 Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets--J.K. Rowling
Tigla Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 The Struggle for the Third World: Soviet Debates and American Options by Jerry Hough Stalin's Think Tank: The Varga Institute and the Making of the Stalinist Idea of World Economy and Politics, 1927-1953 by Kyung Deok Roh
Neist Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Yellow Mellow said: I am currently reading a bunch of very interesting books on the environment and science: Bill Cronon's Nature's Metropolis, Pablo Gomez's The Experiential Caribbean, and the more general Science and Civil Society, by Lynn Nyhart. Truly great books by very interesting scholars! How do you like Nature's Metropolis? It's to be discussed for next week's class. I thought it look pretty interesting!
KLZ Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Neist said: How do you like Nature's Metropolis? It's to be discussed for next week's class. I thought it look pretty interesting! Nature's Metropolis is one of my favorite books. I'm currently reading In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. Well, I'm actually listening to it. I like to listen to a good audiobook while keeping up with my reading lists.
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