Finished reading Witch King
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Finished reading Machine
- Change of Perspective! -
A Punkrock Women's Day read, Punk as F*ck, #ventilverlag, 2022
https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1927/punk-as-fck
50 female authors share their experiences from a FLINTA perspective in the punk scene
What does FLINTA stand for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*
Picture taken by me © arnica montana
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Rated This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking 6/10
Editor John Brockman posed the question "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" Leading scientists, psychologists, writers and general advanced "thinkers" responded with the short answers that make up <i>This Will Make You Smarter</i>, and the result is indeed thought-provoking, but not always interesting.<br><br>However, the most interesting portion, to me, is that this was published before the self-plagiarizing/Bob Dylan quote fabrication scandal of Jonah Lehrer. Lehrer's contribution to this book, "Control Your Spotlight," has to do with a study conducted with small children. The children were in a room with a bowl of marshmallows and told that if they could wait a short period of time alone, they could have more than one to eat. The study looked at impulse control, mainly, and the children who were better able to resist taking a marshmallow early were the ones who put their attention elsewhere. Some kids sang songs, others covered their eyes, etc. But what I find rather amusing is this bit from Lehrer:<br><br><blockquote>Willpower is really about properly diverting the spotlight of attention, learning how to control that short list of thoughts in working memory. It's about realizing that if we're thinking about the marshmallow, we're going to eat it, which is why we need to look away.</blockquote><br><br>So, am I to understand that he gambled on the working memory of Bob Dylan fans, and hoped that they were looking at other things when he made up those quotes? That's a pretty big gamble, that spotlight "control." He didn't have the smarts suggested in David G. Myers' contributing essay, "Self-Serving Bias:"<br><br><blockquote>Being mindful of self-serving bias beckons us not to false modesty but to a humility that affirms our genuine talents and virtues and likewise those of others.</blockquote><br><br>In other words, work with what you've got, and work it well. Don't be a self-serving jerk who tries to make his book better with fake quotes. Also, never underestimate a music super-fan’s skills.<br><br>(My full review appears at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/09/this-will-make-you-smarter-edited-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)<br>
Finished reading The Folded Sky
Finished reading Kallocain
Ender’s Game is a brilliant #ScienceFiction about relationships - brothers and sisters, children and adults, group dynamics… and #loneliness
A war that begins because they cannot simply talk to each other.
And love for the enemy, without which true victory is impossible.
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Finished reading Shorefall
Rated Translation State 10/10
This was great even though it's more of a side-story to the Radch. Very well written and we see some neat areas of the universe that we hadn't seen before. Leckie is great at getting into the heads of some very alien characters.
Rated As You Wake, Break the Shell 10/10
Very well done and the relationship between the two main characters is very realistic and also heartwarming. The rorqual is also interesting, an original kind of alien being and its relationship with one of the main human characters is an entertaining part of the book.
Wants to read Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Rated I, Davros: Innocence 8/10
I am very interested in seeing how this series progresses. I have the other installments, just need to get to them, but Davros is an interesting character, and this is a strong bit of extended universe storytelling.
Rated More Than Human 8/10
Old school writing style but it flows and has some twists and mystery to it, plus a neat concept that was new when this came out.
2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.
A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.
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