I’m on Part 3 of Josh Waitzkin’s Art of Learning, I will try to do a write up when I’m completely finished. Additionally, I got Nimona by Noel Stevenson and The Ministry for the Future by Stanley Robinson to read on the train on the way to work next week.
I hated ‘The Ministry for the Future’ personally. None of the characters ever really feel like people, and he spends ~15x as long explaining his cool idea for a carbon credit cryptocurrency as he does explaining the defeat of the BJP and Bolsonaroism; he spends more of the book left-bashing and geeking out about finance than he does providing a substantive vision of how we can actually make any of the limp reforms a reality.
If you’re looking for a grand historical epic on environmentalish issues, I think his Mars trilogy is a substantially better read. Please don’t make the mistake I did and convince yourself this book is going to get any better.
Grapes of Wrath
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed. Reads like a novel. Amazing.
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