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Sunday, April 10, 2011
The Dragons of Eden -Carl Sagan King and Emperor- Harry Harrison Changes-Jim Butcher Holes-Louis Sachar The Knight and Knave of Swords-Fritz Leiber Goblet of Fire-JKR A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson Cosmos-Carl Sagan A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking This is what I have had to climb over/around to reach my bed lately. Time to shovel the books back onto their shelves.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson? Have you read all of this? Would someone who is working on about %50 of their normal brain capacity (due to nursing a baby and general sleep deprivation) be able to muddle through and also enjoy it?
Yeah, I read it all. I really liked that book.
It's written in a pretty fun and entertaining style. A few parts are down right hilarious. I'd say its at least worth a go at for the hypothetical nursing mother.
The author's intent was partly to write about science for an audience of intellegent, but not mathematically-inclined-asberger-syndrome types. Also he wanted to not just explain what scientists claim to know, but more to explain HOW they know it and what level of uncertainity exists in thier "knowing".
Lots of interesting things in there, for instance: how many actual human/prehuman skeletons our understanding of human evolution is based on. (Not enough to fill the seats in a highschool auditorium, is how he describes it.) Lots of helpful common sense analogies like that to help you get the scale of things.
I also got a huge kick out of the chapter on all the different types of natural disasters that could happen at any time and pretty much wipe out human culture regardless of what we might do to prepare.
I was so not being hypothetical and very obviously talking about myself. I feel like an idiot lately, and not the good kind.
Alright, my library system had it in Large Print, which usually helps me concentrate. I will give it a shot since I looked it up on Amazon and it sounded like a really good book.
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