Category: Books
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Really enjoyed this book! ChatGPT suggested it for me and I bought it at Mr. K’s in Asheville for $5. It’s interesting that I was drawn to this book because math was my hardest, and least favorite, subject in school. It was also the source of tense struggle between my father and I as he…
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1984
This is the second time I’ve read 1984, both since graduating college. I got what I think is a different sense of it this second time. Mainly, the typical meme of, “Hey man the government (Big Brother) man, going after the jokes I’m trying to tell about __ group man!” feels childish and undervalues the…
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Man this book was strange. And really enjoyable. “Dream-like” is a great description of it. I was talking to Sadie about what I think it was “about” and in some ways I’ve sort of landed on that it doesn’t really seem to have a particular about-ness to it, other than being another story about the…
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A Secular Age
by Charles Taylor A friend, who is a philosopher, told me about Charles Taylor a few years ago. His thinking on communitarianism have stuck with me. Picked this up from the library recently, read the intro, and flipped around through the rest. It’s pretty dense and a bit too academic for my constitution, so I…