August 2017: What Non-fiction are you reading now?

I'm reading Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese.

Just started The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth which is odd and funny as usual - great for a language/word nerd like me.

I'm still engaged with The Evangelicals, which is going to take a while, and a privately published 1970 work on science and religion called Cosmic Splendor.

I'll be needing an antidote sometime soon, I expect.

Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space, a totally engrossing and clear narrative (with some particle physics thrown in) about the world changing discovery made by CERN's HLC scientists in the ATLAS and CMS experiments, and announced July 4, 2012. Written by my favorite physicist-author, Lisa Randall.

I'm reading A Room of one's own by Virginia Woolf. It doesn't feel 90 years old.

I've just started Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.

Finished A Room of One's Own, a books based on a pair of lectures given by Virginia Woolf. Interesting. Not sure how much we've moved on in ~ 90 years.

Reading State of Fire on the history of volunteer fire fighting in Victoria, Australia.

I'm celebrating Canada's 150th with A Number of Things: Stories About Canada Told Through 50 Objects by Jane Urquhart.

I'm reading Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer for a book club.

Just started The Blind Giant, Nick Harkaway's take on digital culture.

Just started Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski. It's been ages since I took physics in college, so this is a nice review of basics.

>14 JulieLill: Read that earlier this year - she's an excellent communicator, both in print and on TV.

>14 JulieLill: That book sounds interesting. I took physics a million years ago and somehow passed it.

>13 SChant: Have you read Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood? Similar subject, great overview, and not too hard science.

>17 Limelite: Not read that one - I'll have to add it to my list. I've got his Chaos: the making of a new science on my TBR shelf, though.

>18 paradoxosalpha: THAT is one of my fav books. I read it when chaos theory and Mandelbrot fractals were new news to the gen pub. I still have my copy. It impressed me so much that I rank it up there with William H Calvin's The River That Flows Uphill in terms of impact on my intellectual awareness.

Enjoy your encounter -- it will make you "see" the world in a whole new way.

I finally finished Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity and posted my review. What a disturbingly timely read. I had started it last month, and got to see the Wewelsburg "black sun" actually flying on flags in Charlottesville while I was still working through the book.

I'm about to start One Native Life by Richard Wagamese for a book club discussion next week.