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What books are you reading?
panzer:
Krugman: End This Depression Now!
Craig, Elliot: The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of
Our Lives
Taleb: The Black Swan
Beckett: The Chemistry of Death
Sirico: Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
kyrathaba:
Finished David Drake's "Northworld". Now reading the 2nd novel in the trilogy, "Vengeance". Good sci-fi written in the early 90s.
TaoPhoenix:
Interesting things result from reading Galatians 4:24 followed by Ezekiel 23:20!
:D
TaoPhoenix:
Meanwhile I am reading Great Moments in Modern Chess by Reuben Fine ... from 1948! That was when chess was fresh and new, and WWII was an important recent concluding episode.
It is also early enough that some of the games actually played out the tropes that are unstated in "today's" games.
Edit: For example, Reuben Fine really pays Dr. Max Euwe much greater respect than he is usually given in current chess circles. 1948 was just early enough before Botvinnik pulverized the chess world, so R. Fine reports "from the time" that Euwe was well respected in his day as a solid GM. (Today too many authors take the cheapo shot that he was the "junk champion" between Alekhine and Botvinnik.)
It was also just before how stunning the rise of the USSR would be in chess - for various reasons the Russians were not around for a lot of events in the 1930's, and the US was the "second best country" winning all the events. Alekhine was what he was, but Botvinnik signalled that the Soviet govt support of chess was going to have an effect, and it wasn't until Fischer that anyone else was in the same league.
kyrathaba:
Reading the concluding book, "Justice", in David Drake's "Northworld" trilogy.
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