books
Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Chapter / Day 13 - “Three Hours” - On finding focus in the chaos.
Basically, many of the most productive people in the world focused their attention and energy on a three hour (ish) period of the day …
Love this :)
Book of the Day - “The Future is History” (Masha Gessen, 2017)
Subtitled “How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”. A warning we need to heed.
#books #history #booksky #totalitarianism

Currently reading: The Future is History by Masha Gessen 📚
Prescient book from 2017 - a lot of the reviews at the time criticised Gessen for calling Putin’s regime “totalitarian”.
Finished reading: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 📚
Darkly funny and sardonic. Listless tale of avoidance. Not sure about the end, but many memorable vignettes.
Long weekend reading collection. Connected and contrasting themes - history, philosophy, cross-cultural exchange, reflection, and ancient thought.
Finished reading: Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson 📚
Finished reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 📚
The first book on the “Culture” Series, now a classic science fiction setting. Explores the Culture largely from the view on an antagonist in the midst of a devastating galactic war. Covers vast and immense scope with finely crafted characters and intense interpersonal relationships and conflict.
Brilliant.
Finished reading: Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker 📚
Interesting mix of natural history, history and mythological investigation.
Finished reading: On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock 📚
Finished reading: Blackouts by Justin Torres 📚
Finished reading: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend 📚
Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚
Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚
Finished reading: Bernardino de Sahagun by Miguel Leon-Portilla 📚
Finished reading: Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox 📚
Finished reading: The Florentine Codex by Jeanette Favrot Peterson 📚