cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1757367

Here’s what I’m reading:

I’m going to stop reading A Dance with Dragons and the two Star Wars books for now and wrap up Empire, Incorporated and Determined while I continue on with Das Kapital.

Bonus question:

What do you PLAN to read later on?

Enjoy!

  • die_livster@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    10 months ago

    here’s the 3 books im reading at the moment :)

    i saw this one posted about a bunch on the bear website, im about a quarter of the way through and i can say it’s already taught me a lot about myself. the author discusses at length the challenges faced by primarily autistic people, but also adhd people, and neurodiverse people in general. im going to make my girlfriend read it too >:^)

    this is quite a well written biography of the ancient chinese poet li bai, we follow li through his life as he struggles to be taken seriously by the chinese elite. the author does seem to be a lib though and it comes through a couple of times.

    this is i think pynchon’s debut novel, im about 70% through. im not sure what to make of it: beautiful prose, harsh realities, im thoroughly engrossed and also feel as though i have no idea what’s going on. the book lights up all the right parts of my brain for conspiracy shit

    i recently finished anna karenina, it’s my favourite book. Lenin on Tolstoy: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1910/nov/16d.htm

  • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 months ago

    I am reading The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History as a preparation for my next read, which is Perceptions of Iran: History Myths And Nationalism From Medieval Persia To The Islamic Republic by Ali Ansari. One thing that the coauthors of the Oxford handbook have specially mentioned was the sense of national identity that premodern Iranians enjoyed, but it remains a very controversial subject. So I am intrigued to know how Ansari handles that question.

    • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      They seem interesting! Have you ever learned anything about Zoroastrianism? I remember learning it was popular in the region at some point in history.

      • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 months ago

        Zoroastrianism is a principle component of Iranian identity in the antiquities, especially under Achaemenid rule during which its doctrines were formalised and the church was tied to the state apparatus.

        As the empire grew, Zoroastrianism was spread as far as India (I heard the biggest Zoroastrian community today is located there). Some vassal states within the Acahemenid/Sassanid spheres of influence even adopted the religion, such as Armenia before it converted to Christianity. The extent of Zoroastrianism was so deep-rooted in Iranian societies that even centuries after the Islamic conquests it remained prevalent (There wasn’t forced conversion to Islam but many eventually did to avoid paying war tributes).

        There was also a popular movement led by the Zoroastrian priest Mazdak who preached for an egalitarian social system and the distribution of the wealth of the nobility and priests to peasants.

  • Chay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Currently going through Unjust Depths, at around ch 12. Reading Losurdo’s book on Liberalism, quite slow though

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    Nonfiction: Algebraic Geometry by Daniel Perrin

    Fiction: Using Algebraic Geometry by David A. Cox

  • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’m reading Crime and Punishment, as for manga, a lot of thing simultaneously, i don’t have any further reading on the queue tho, trying to first finish crime and punishment to practice a little my reading(i have difficulty reading, tv baby and whatnot) to see if i can read better, go to theory or at least familiarize myself with world literature with a focus in my country

  • 中国共产党万岁@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    Chinese:

    • A lot of Mandarin Chinese graded reader short stories. Mostly on DuChinese. Their Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptation is good so far

    English:

    • Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
    • The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
    • Fifth Sun, a New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
  • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    Fic: All Quiet on the Western Front, What is to be done? (Chernyshevsky). Both decent.

    Nonfic: Capital, After Virtue (weird Marxish book about morality).

    Plan: Good Sugar Bad Sugar, How to Blow up a Pipeline, The Global Perspective, and more

  • Avnar@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    Currently this its about China good so far. Next Im gona read “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” and then “State and Revolution”

    State and Revolution That’s a good book, I’d better take it with me again. (Does anyone get this reference?)

  • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Sapolsky is good, might have to read that book sooner or later:

    Non-fiction: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Euthyphro (technically historical fiction maybe?; re-reading & re-reading it), Marx in the Anthropocene, I dropped like 5-6 books after reading a few pages because I didn’t vibe.

    Fiction: Notes from Underground, I wanna read Brothers Karamazov but it looks way too long.

      • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, I’m eyeing it. It’s actually, I had to read Popper for a Phil Sci course. And these academic reactionary types have this weird obsession with evolution. My major is Biology, and I find it interesting. They are probably considered adaptationist, and honestly it’s completely different from the evolutionary biology I learned and the papers I read.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Obviously I’m obsessively listening and re-listening to Unmasking Autism for the book club. Besides that I’m trying to start reading “Cybernetic Revolutionaries”, but I haven’t found much time lately.

    I also got a stash of physical books, but they’re mostly in Portuguese and I haven’t started going through them yet.

    So much curiosity, so little time.