I’m very glad that the first part of my life was without the internet and all this relatively new technology. My family didn’t get our first computer – an Apple 2C – until I was a sophomore in high school. From that point on I was an eager and enthusiastic adopter of all things tech.…… Continue reading The Anxious Generation
Category: Books
My notes on books I’ve read.
Enshittification
For most of my life I’ve been an enthusiastic technology adopter. I’m older so I remember the utopia the original internet was supposed to bring about. We were to be more connected, better informed, and this was to lead to a better society and perhaps even world peace! Obviously this was an illusion and instead…… Continue reading Enshittification
A Wrinkle In Time
This is a children’s book that I’d forgotten completely about until I heard it mentioned in the T.V. series Stranger Things. I thought it would bring back some nostalgia rereading it as well as other children’s classics. Now that I’ve finished, I’m questioning myself if I’ve ever read this book since there isn’t even a…… Continue reading A Wrinkle In Time
The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
I first heard of the Gita in high school religion class. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a very good student at that time and foreign religions didn’t interest me at all. I decided to read this after listening to electronic music where some quotes from Oppenheimer had been added. I was curious about the following: “We knew…… Continue reading The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
The Way of All Flesh
I enjoy reading books about life in villages pre-industrial revolution wherever in the world they may be. Asking ChatGPT to recommend books like this returned this title and so I read it. I was a bit weary since it was a “Duke Classic book” and it also had the flavor of being something like Middlemarch,…… Continue reading The Way of All Flesh
Lapham’s Quarterly – States of Mind
It is ironic that I read States of Mind while I wasn’t in a very good state of mind. An illness went through the house which was either flu or COVID and one of the symptoms for me was considerable brain fog. I found myself having to reread paragraphs three or four times and with…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – States of Mind
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Over the past two years I’ve been enjoying books about life in countryside villages, pre-industrial revolution. I asked ChatGPT about other books regarding the simplicity of nature and that is how I must have stumbled upon this book. I had no intention to read a book about the Appalachian trail. I’m not interested in the…… Continue reading A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
I thought I’d have more notes reading this book like I did when I read Lafcadio Hearn’s “Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation.” The books were different in that this book didn’t get into the culture very much and just related tales, which, inherently teach us about Japanese culture but not to the depths of An…… Continue reading Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn