an0maly
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I don't know if nycfan wanted to just leave it be, but we had a fine book thread on this board.
Reading George Packer's The Emergency, fiction, something sort of like a 1984 for our times. Good, about halfway in.
Before that: The Origin of Language, How We Learned to Speak and Why, by Madeline Baekman; What Can We Know: A Novel, about a scholar of a radically damaged, changed Earth in 2119, investigating human history--different and quite good; The Arrogant Ape, by Christine Webb, which is about our false assumptions that we are better than other animals (brilliant, and the best nonfiction work I've read this year).
Reading George Packer's The Emergency, fiction, something sort of like a 1984 for our times. Good, about halfway in.
Before that: The Origin of Language, How We Learned to Speak and Why, by Madeline Baekman; What Can We Know: A Novel, about a scholar of a radically damaged, changed Earth in 2119, investigating human history--different and quite good; The Arrogant Ape, by Christine Webb, which is about our false assumptions that we are better than other animals (brilliant, and the best nonfiction work I've read this year).