re: What are you reading?

Call of the wild w my 10 yr old.

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

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Just finished Killers of the Flower Moon. Still sitting with me a few days later.

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I listened to the audiobook earlier this year. I had no idea of this history and was just shocked. Governments and powerful people continue to do bad things. I shouldn't have shocked me as that's what powerful people (mostly men) have done throughout history. If anyone doesn't know this story, it should be required reading.

The Wright Brothers - David McCullough

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji.

Japanese author and the book is sort of an homage to Agatha Christie, a locked room mystery or “chalet in a snowstorm” as he calls it. Pretty good so far.

Also reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. It’s a book about how to breathe correctly. We all think we know how to do it because we do it all day but he talks about how evolution has shrunk our sinuses to make room for our brains and now nobody breathes properly. I’ve already started to use it in everyday life and during workouts and it’s working.

Just got The Mysteries yesterday. Co-credited on this is Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes fame. I was not expecting anything resembling C&H, but with how wild Bill's imagination is and with how deeply philosophical he can get in just a few panels, I was really expecting something moving.

But it's not. It's 72 pages, and each spread consists of basically two sentences on the left and some artwork on the right. The artwork is definitely evocative, and the best part of the book, but still below what I would consider Watterson's best (think Spiff landscapes, or dinosaurs).

The story is very weak. It mildly conceals a theme of environmental destruction--which Watterson touched on with much better wit in C&H--and a reminder that time and space move on without us. But there's no catharsis. The first half of the story is generally interesting, maybe even a dash suspenseful, but it doesn't go anywhere.

In case it needs to be plainly stated, the entire book can be read in about five minutes or less. It's a very weak final product after waiting 28 years for some new material from one of the truly great editorialists and cartoonists of my lifetime.

The binding is cool though (I mean that earnestly). Black felt on the hardcover. It'll look really good on display.

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson