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(On the Map seems intriguing--reading a description of it, I don't think I'd digest the whole thing, but definitely parts. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet sounds promising. And maybe a series regarding Qualia...)

Haven't really been reading much for quite a while, lately. Almost no books. I have still been skimming articles. A selected assortment from over the whole summer include the following: WRI's "Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings" in part to contrast the carbon print of data centers and streaming music, "Confessions of a Former B*stard Cop" on Medium, regarding a major social & civic sub-issue embroiling the US to this day, and attempting to follow Scott Aaronson's "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?", with (great) immeasurable joy and exceedingly little comprehension.
"To put this another way: I made double the salary most social workers made to do a fraction of what they could do to mitigate the causes of crimes and desperation. I can count very few times my monopoly on state violence actually made our citizens safer, and even then, it's hard to say better-funded social safety nets and dozens of other community care specialists wouldn't have prevented a problem before it started."

Outside of occasional binges, I don't really watch TV or movies, and haven't read fiction or even manga that much lately, though looking through bookmarks, I remember that I reread much of the manga "Dear, Only You Don't Know!". Oh, and reread much of the webtoon One Last God: Kubera. Sorry, pictures just make it low-energy and easy to digest. Also reread a few chapters of the Armored Core fic "Those Who Shake the World".

//and because I can't help myself.- hey look! symbolic maths thrives upon the verbally-oriented brain region. though it really isn't the point of the piece. and shall it matter, I like as not -shan't be so frothy-mouthed next time :x
This hypothesis neatly explains the experiment’s findings: the reason subjects performed better in the language of their training for exact computation but not for approximation problems is that the former call upon the verbally-oriented left inferior frontal lobes, and the latter upon the spatially-oriented parietal lobes.
 
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On the Map seems intriguing--reading a description of it, I don't think I'd digest the whole thing, but definitely parts.

Surprisingly readable, given the subject matter. The book's chopped up into lots of chapters that read almost like extended articles. They're not quite standalone, but you could read and fully understand a lot of them without having to read through the whole book first
 
I recently read The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and I loved it. It's found-family sci-fi comfort reading. Also gave me my first experience of shipping something incredibly indulgent and having it pay off!
 
Recently finished Finders Keepers by Stephen King. Almost done with that series. Currently reading Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer. I got it from the library and have been on the waitlist for it for a couple months now. Hoping to be done with it by next week.
 
Reading and processing and learning and experiencing.

Haven't really been reading much for quite a while, lately. Almost no books. I have still been skimming articles.
Well, around the turn of the year, saw an assortment of updates from friends showing their GoodRead lists for the year. I feel especially chastened by the cases such as a medical doctor managing to read quite a lot. And my brother's still doing nonfiction, technical, and fiction.

Still, no goals and commitments from me. And while it turns out I did read a bit of nonfiction that wasn't just articles last year, it still wasn't much, and I don't expect/plan to get better about it this year as a priority. I'll certainly keep up the nonfiction news/info/light technical skimming. I'll see about reading for nonfiction, fiction, and fanfic.
 
Went back to reading The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Currently on the third book. I got through book one and two fairly quickly but the third is kind of dragging for me. Wanted to finish the series and also needed to get over In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. She's a lovely author just a very upsetting book.
 
Started re-reading Felix Salten's A Forest World so I can finish my review of it. Man, that book is so good!...but I wish Genina and Arilla weren't such awful characters plagued by misogynistic motivations!!
 
That Sweet Enemy, by Isabelle and Robert Tombs. It's a history of the rivalry between Britain and France, starting from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 - I'm fascinated by the early modern period anyway, but there's a signature sense of subtle humour that makes it extremely easy to read despite the density.
 
Why Is My Dragon Slayer This Small by Wizardrobe over on the Spacebattle forums. one of those SI as Pokemon fanfic this one being a Cutiefly in Unova. I've come to enjoy the genre of these fics where characters end up as Pokemon and have to navigate their new surroundings.
 
I've been binging Ascedance of a Bookworm since yesterday and while it's certainly not for everyone, I quite enjoy it. It's a weird mix of slice-of-life, fantasy, low-power isekai and dealing with economy?
 
"So This Is Love," from the A Twisted Tale series. Basically Disney AUs based on a "What if...?" This one's branching off point is "What if Cinderella didn't get to try on the slipper when the Duke arrived?" I have this one, and the books for Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, and Hercules.

Looking forward to getting What Once Was Mine next month!
 
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