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castiron ([personal profile] castiron) wrote2019-09-18 10:15 pm
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actual Wednesday here reading

In progress:

Rich Karlgaard, Late Bloomers; The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement. It's an interesting read, but at the halfway point I'm not sure I'd actually recommend it to someone who's feeling like their opportunities passed them by or they started to figure out what interests them too late; it's making me feel more pessimistic about my chances of achieving things late in life, not less. I'm pretty sure that isn't the author's intention, and we'll see what I think when I've finished it, but right now it seems to be more of a framing-the-problem book than a solutions book.

George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square. I've read it, but that was at least 35 years ago, and I don't remember the details other than that there's a mouse, a cat, and a cricket. So far, so good.

Still working on McCullogh, Because Internet, and Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings.

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[personal profile] katherine 2019-09-19 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
A mouse, a cat, and a cricket, and music! I liked that one, although the first in the series I ever read was Harry Cat's Puppy which is set after.