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What are you reading this week? [7/30/23] (kbin.social)

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What book is currently on your nightstand?
Who is the author?
What genre?
How do you like it?
Would you recommend it to others?

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Audible just had a 2 for 1 sale and I found 4 that look intriguing to me and pulled the trigger on:

Projections by Karl Deisseroth
Being You by Anil Seth
The Anatomy of Anxiety by Ellen Vora
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

I haven't started any yet. I'll probably start with Sagan because he's a great blend of rational scientist and story teller. The other three look like moderately researched books on different aspects of the brain and I read as much as I can find on the brain and intelligence. I have a fairly lengthy list of ones I've read and consider interesting here.

[–] McBinary@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, I've listened to Carl Sagan's Cosmos so many times in my life that I'm afraid it would be a Pavlovian response to him narrating an audio book... 😴😴

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Demon Haunted World is really good, too. I don't think he narrates any of it himself, though.