I’m reading ‘ The Little Prince’ in Polish and learning a lot of new words.

Algorithms to Live By.

It takes various well studied problems and applies the solution to common problems. So using the best strategy for the secretary problem to select parking when driving to a popular event.

It’s ok. Well researched and straightforward. However it spends more time on each problem than the depth it goes into deserves. Plus some of the solutions are only marginally useful.

Max Kidruk - Colony. The New Dark Ages

Dunno if it was or ever will be translated into english. It’s a hard sci-fi book about challenges of established and semi-autonomous martian colony and other problems and challenges earth-side. It was great, if a bit longer than I prefer.

Last english language one was “Matt Dinamon - Dungeon Crawler Carl” great humor, somewhat unexpected story.

Mogworld by Benjamin Croshaw

7/10, it was fine I guess.

Ending was good tho, in an uncomfortable kind of way

Way lower brow than other entries, but I just finished the last Stormlight Archives book that released, Wind and Truth. Pretty on beat character moments and a few unexpected turns. Very cool page turner to settle down in the evening

I reread Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Obviously the second time around I didn’t get to experience the same burning curiosity about the setting, nor the joy of piecing things together, but I still really enjoyed it.

Also currently about halfway through Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism. Looking forward to his new book in a couple weeks.

Open Veins of Latin America. Finished reading it today. It’s a 1973 book that explains some of the reasons for the massive underdevelopment of Latin American colonies. The general gist can be summed up as “it is a place full of riches, and the colonizers only want to extract everything and send it back to their masters” - that still applied to the industrialization efforts funded by foreign capital.

Although Spain and Portugal were the nominal masters, they, too, were fucking themselves over with debts to Dutch and English bankers back in 16th and 17th centuries, not to mention bad trade deals, effectively killing their own industries and those of their colonies.

EDIT: Galeano also exposed a lot of the shady deals made mainly by USA companies with governments in order to “develop” the southern countries, like ensuring that they’d get less taxes, better exchange prices and better credit options, that their goods would only be shipped by USA owned ships, etc. Not to mention that, during 1950-1970, the price of the commodities sold by Latin American countries kept falling (probably growing below inflation) and the income from the exports kept getting lower, despite larger volumes.

Finished or current?

Last finished book was “Oynx Storm”. A book from the Empyrean series. Book was OK, didn’t seem like much happened for such a long book.

Current reading “Empire of Silence”, book 1 of the Sun eater series. So far not bad. Writing style gets a bit confusing at times, but subject is good. Waiting to see where the story goes.

These are the plunderers: how private equity runs and wrecks America by Gretchen Morgenstern.

Brave New World. I liked it

Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. Great look at the infrastructure and risk/reward of various methods of driving.

I read a book called The Spiritual Tourist by Mick Brown. Very easy read. It’s sort of half a travel story with some great moments and scenes from exotic locations and half an exploration of fringe religion.

Very enjoyable, although in an effort to remain neutral and open minded in tone he might have given some of the subjects a little too much benefit of the doubt. Still a very fun read, would recommend.

The Langoliers! I liked it. I’ve never read any King before because I don’t like horror and my husband’s was like “well its the least horrory of his stuff” and it was but I say I dislike the ending cause it’s absolutely a horror ending. Spoilers for a story that came out in the 90s - I have no idea why they’re so happy when they realize they’re now in the future. Whose to say you are going to get dragged along into the normal time stream and not just watch it fucking slip away as you seem utterly unmoored from time??? Bros??? No celebration yet!!!

The Art thief and about 70% in it. I’m amazed how the guy managed to get away for so long and even more amazed on something else but since I don’t know how to spoiler tag on the Mlem app - I can’t write it down.

Three Widows and currently reading The Well of Ascension

I pretty much only read fantasy and crime, with a few random stuff thrown in occasionally.