I have a bit of free time this week.
So it is time to read up on photography:
Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
By David Duchemin
Highly recommended!
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Currently re-reading:
J.S. Mill On LIberty
Jonathan Cohen The Red & the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology
Current photobook: Albarran Cabrera window to the unexpectedā¦This was just lent to me and I have not spent enough time with it yet. If you like Albarran Cabrerraās work you will feel at home here, but I am not sure remembering the future doenāt outshine this installment of the series.
EDIT: I should mention that the Cohen book has been released as open access. It is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 by Oxford Press
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Umberto Eco āThe Name of the Roseā is my book for this summer.
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Reading for the first time Blackshirts and Reds, Blood Meridian and Room to Dream
Iām currently reading These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs. Iām very much on the edge about it. Itās an inventive Science Fiction world with interesting characters. But it weirdly strays too close to Fantasy in its storytelling, which rubs me in a wrong way, but thatās clearly on me not the book. A weird experience.
Meanwhile, Iām reading The Hobbit to my kids, which is great fun! And weāre listening to Harry Potter 4 as a family audio book, which I greatly enjoy as a family experience, if not particularly on literary grounds.
And for work, as part of our book club, Iām reading Functional Programming in C++ by Ivan ÄukiÄ. A pretty good book so far that serves as a good introduction to FP (with which Iām well familiar, but my team is not), and a disturbing view into the more alien corners of this whacky programming language.
My next book will probably either be the third book in the Dune cycle by Frank Herbert, or indeed The Lord of the Rings.
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Uhh. I am very much looking forward to my son being ready for that book to my son 
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Iām reading Ilium by Dan Simmons. I may be re-reading it, but if so, I donāt recall much of it. Itās interesting science fiction, nonetheless.
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Iāve only read Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion from Dan Simmons but it was an unforgettable experience, some of the best sci-fi that Iāve read.
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I remember trying to read this when I was 12 or so. I made it like 60 pages in and I remember thinking āwhen do we get to the point??ā And I never finished it. I am not really a fan of āworld buildingā as they call it.
Just finished a marathon re-read of The Expanse series by James SA Corey. Now mixing it up by reading Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman (spoiler alert: probably)
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Got started with Project Hail Mary now, seems promising (as in entertaining) judging from the first 50 pages.
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Recently finished and now re-reading, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
Have picked it up before and was not that interested but on trying again more seriously found it quite riveting.
I think that regardless of oneās faith itās an interesting read, definitely of its time in some ways but relevant nonetheless.
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In that case I recommend not reading The Silmarillionā¦ LOL
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Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch. Bought this a couple years ago at Books by the Bay in Sausalito (CA), and just now finally getting around to it.
My wife read it before me, and thought it was excellent. I am just into the first chapter (St. Denis), but so far I concur. The book takes the form of a walking tour of the exterior and interior of six great medieval gothic cathedrals in and near Paris. Historical, architectural, religious, cultural, artistic aspects are all woven together in a very readable account. We have seen three of these in person, and now agree that the book makes us want to see the other three!
I am also re-reading sections of Zen Mind, Beginnerās Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (not to be confused with D.T. Suzuki). This book is kind of a tough nut to crack, and I would not recommend it as a first book on Zen. However, it is full of many pearls of wisdom and interesting insights. Certainly, I think it merits a re-read.
āWaves in an Impossible Seaā by Matt Strassler. He is arguing for a particular ontology in fundamental physics.
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Now reading Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
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An excellent choice @123sg
I read it in the late 60ās. At the end of that liberating decade.
I canāt remember much of it now, only that some of it seemed from a previous time and some, totally relevant to the present. Similar to what you said.
I might have to re read it.
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I just finished āThese Burning Starsā by Bethany āāāJacobs. To be honest, I didnāt like it at first. It uncomfortably felt like Fantasy writing in a Science Fiction backdrop. Its use of religious metaphors to describe a totalitarian state made me uncomfortable. The brutality of the setting made me uncomfortable.
But what kept me going were the characters and the mystery. Some of the pieces of this puzzle tantalizingly didnāt āquiteā fit together right. I wanted to find out, why. And when they finally clicked, they so satisfyingly meshed with the character developments; I couldnāt help but love it, despite my initial reservations.
Iām not sure yet wāāāhether Iāll continue with book two of the trilogy immediately, but Iām certain I will before too long. I need to know how these damn interesting characters will manage the new world they thrust themselves into. And thatās high praise from me. A very well written and fascinating book!
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Iād recommend the Hyperion series by Dan Simmonsā¦ All very good
Iāll look up Ilium 
Try the rest of the seriesā¦ All good and helps finish the story nicely.
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