That Einstein book was a good insight into the man, as well as the science.
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Now on to pleasure reading. Presently reading How to Break 90 so I can get my golf game better than it presently is. Not good for a retired USAF officer to have a crappy golf game you know!
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Right now I'm in the middle book of the "Clarke County" series by Allen Steele. (The books are Orbital Decay, Lunar Descent, and Clarke County, Space). The stories were written in the late 80's/early 90's, and set a few years from now. He gets most of the technology right, and certainly gets the "feel" of the average joe working in space.
I started keeping track of what I've read this year, entering the data into a spreadsheet. So far, I've read 55 books, for a total of just over 17, 000 pages, averaging 89 pages/day. I confess, it's mostly science fiction.
I started keeping track of what I've read this year, entering the data into a spreadsheet. So far, I've read 55 books, for a total of just over 17, 000 pages, averaging 89 pages/day. I confess, it's mostly science fiction.
55 books so far this year! Incredible!
I just finished "The Case for Space" by Robert Zubrin. It starts off explaining a return to the moon using Space X boosters and then goes to the future and far future and ends explaining why we should go to space.
I'm now reading Bill O'Reilly's "Legend and Lies: The Real West", which is a very fun book to read especially if you spent part of your life here in the far west.
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Like I said, it's mostly science fiction, and it's almost all from my library (and almost all paperback books). I only read a few (10?...20?) new books a year, can't afford them. Many books (for example a lot of Heinlein's and Asimov's stuff, are very short books, 150 - 200 pages.
And the total doesn't include the dozen or so books I've read on my tablet (five minutes at a time).
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I find the link between psychology and economics choices fascinating. Currently finishing, Chicago Booth's professor and Nobel prize winner, Richard Thaler's book:
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Did a final tally on the books I read in 2019. Comes out to 36,015 pages in 109 books, about 99 pages per day. These were almost all paperback books from my library. I think I bought less than 10 new books last year. This doesn't count the dozen or so e-books I read on my tablet. Starting a new spreadsheet for this year.
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For the new year I am deep into these two
And I just recently finished,
And I just recently finished,
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
Finally started reading what I picked up at the USSRC in April.
Great discussion of the dangers and unknowns of early spacewalking
Great discussion of the dangers and unknowns of early spacewalking
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Been reading this one on my lunch breaks:
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The next one.
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Deep Work is a must read!
I finished reading a contemporary layman's book on current issues in physics entitled, "Now: The Physics of Time" by Richard Muller. I am now reading another layman's book on current issues in physics entitled, "Warped Passages" by Lisa Randall.
Just finished reading four Aerospace America (AIAA) magazines and a couple of Aerospace (RAes) magazines. I have now caught up to my subscriptions. Haven't been doing much reading over summer 
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I just got done reading my palm, it's bereft of a rocket. Lousy read.
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I really enjoyed Seveneves, hope you are too!
Just finished 'The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story' by Angela Bourke. Now Midway through 'Lobotomy' by Dee Dee Ramone. On a non-fiction run ATM.
Just finished Kiev 1941 by David Stahel. Stahel has been noted for his more in-depth looks at what transpired on the East Front and putting it into the wider context of events giving a more subtle and complex understanding of the events.
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Still pounding through science fiction. I decided to give Terry Pratchett a break (after Making Money), and moved to L.E. Modesitt (Parafaith War and Ethos Effect so far). I'll get back to Pratchett, probably with Tiffany Aching series. 10 books in Jan.; on track for another 120 this year.
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Wow, no kidding. Esp. anything political!
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I gave up several years ago with the newspaper and television. Won't listen to any radio either. When I quit drugs, smoking and drinking over two decades ago I understood I had opened up options for cleaning out my life by removing unwanted garbage. Let them eat cake otherwise.
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One of these is for work.
A colleague just passed me a copy of Humble Pi by Matt Parker. That might slip into the rotation -- but it might be too much maths (as they say in the UK) right now. I am enjoying Simonyi, but it is kind of filling up my head.
I never got to Ka. It is still in the to-be-read pile. I am NOT going back to Barry Lopez' Horizon until I can find a more effective antidepressant. I gave up on Butcher's 20,000 Leagues after the 30th or 40th footnote.
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