Posts in: 📚 Books

💬📚 Written in ‘63 - he died in ‘69 - book finally published in ‘80 .. so arguably he knew nought of our world today …

And yet …

💬📚Lovely. Captures the mustiness of some of my favourite bookstores over the years.

💬 This 📚 is seven years old ….

🔗 📚‘On Tyranny’ by Timothy Snyder

Interesting quote from Ollie Henderson’s book popped up this morning - which reminded me of a Jason Fried quote and they both tie to some fascinating work I am doing right now. Bob said it 61 years ago - not prescient - simply a fact The Times They Are (ALWAYS) A-Changin' …

Currently reading: Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr 📚

I don’t usually post about books I am reading, but want to see how the change that @manton made to Micro Blog works.

Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been circulating the socials - so of course - I did a little bit of triangulation. It looks legit. 🔗 More Here The Story At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll.

🔗 📚 Leaving

… now added to my ‘want to’ list (Leaving by Roxana Robinson)

… but separately the piece by Lefsetz is archived into my Readwise … lest I forget.

Gorgeous.

Thrutopian Futures anyone?

🔗 📚 Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller - Accidental Gods

Currently reading: 📚The Loop by Jacob Ward