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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 13 November (self.books)
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I am reading The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths. A Ruth Galloway mystery. It was supposed to be a quick read, but got busy with some stuff, so going slowly.

What about all of you? What are you reading, or listening these days?

Note: So, I posted this last week, but for some issue with federation it didn't actually sync. So, this will be another one and half week post.

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[–] dresden 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems like worth a read then. Would look forward to your review once you have finished it.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was doing the audio book and stopped about halfway through. It was a very well layed out and explained narrative of the history of the Renaissance in Italy but the audio book format is just not good for a book this dense. There was too much information for me to keep track between all the various families and political factions and assists. When I have the time to read it I'll go back to it but I need the ability to flip back a chapter or two easily for a refresher on who various people are.

Overall if you are interested in Renaissance history, politics, or art I would recommend the book but not the audio book. It got into a lot of detail on all the mid level players in a way I haven't seen previously and does a good job of tying together the way politics influenced art and the daily life of artists and vice versa.

[–] dresden 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation. Will add it to my list.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you are interested in noon fiction my favorite is Too Big for A Single Mind by Tobias Hurter. It's about the beginning of the atomic age with a heavy focus on the interpersonal relationships between all the physicists working on atomic and quantum theory at the being of the 20th century. There is no hard math and most of the concepts discussed are so foundational now that they are taught in high school so it is easy to follow the science. The audio book has fantastic narration as well.

[–] dresden 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, that sounds pretty interesting. Going to take a look.