June 12, 8:30 PM Musings
Now that the pressing matter of the front lawn has been handled, I have spent a few minutes wondering what should replace it as a top priority. The answer to this is clear - fitness and weight loss.
However I then rotated the chair I was sitting in and noticed a few disorganized piles of books. I quickly put away the books that I had recently read and found a place for a number of books that I have yet to begin. But that still left a new pile of books that represented books that I have begun but then put aside. A quick count revealed that the total was 16. And there is also another set of ebooks residing on my iPad.
The 16 books
The next step is to organize these 16 books into categories. Once that is done I will identify a few that require immediate attention.
- Science
- Molecular Biology (2010) by David P. Clark & Lonnie D. Russell
- Mathematics
- The Symmetries of Things (2008) by John H. Conway et al.
- Fearless Symmetry (2006) by Avner Ash & Robert Gross
- A Book of Abstract Algebra (1990) by Charles C. Pinter
- Technology
- My MacBook: Lion Edition (2012) by John ray
- Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (2011) by John Brockman (Ed.)
- Turing's Cathedral (2012) by George Dyson
- Literature
- The Penguin Book of Memoir (2011) by Camilla Gibb
- The Use and Abuse of Literature (2011) by Marjorie Garber
- The Masnavi: Book One (2004) by Rumi
- The Big Red Book (2010) by Rumi/Coleman Barks
- Scribble, Scribble, Scribble (2010) by Simon Schama
- The Quincunx (1989) by Charles Palliser
- No Trace (2004) by Barry Maitland
- Puzzles
- Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go (1996) by Toshiro Kageyama
- Philosophy
- Tao Te Ching (2002) by Lao Tzu
Two books in the above list are novels (The Quincunx and No Trace). The remainder are all non-fiction.
Mathematics is still my deep love. I want to return to Pinter's book, "A Book of Abstract Algebra". Another book that I was enjoying was Marjorie Garber's "The Use and Abuse of Literature". Finally, I would like to return to "The Quincunx", a Victorian mystery novel by Charles Palliser.