I just finished "Carry On, Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse.

I'm half-way through re-reading "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin ... meral_Mind

After delving into the world of sperm competition, genetically motivated infidelity and merciless sexual selection I started reading:

That sounds interesting in the way Cheating Time is about how the body has all these internal mechanisms to self destruct. I haven't read anything front to cover in awhile. I got this stupid book that was supposed to be about sex and the bible. It claimed to be probing the deeply bifurcated meanings in Gods Word but turned out to be nothing more than a tirade for deviant behavior missing very obvious points about hurting other people with driveling selfishness. Back to the library with you. There was one about Why do Christians Shoot their Wounded. That was at least thought out if the language a bit simple, examples a few too few. But at least that one made me feel better. A few years ago, I found a book at work about a poor Irish-American boy growing up. I never finished it but it is good enough reading material. He analysis a lot of class and race warfare though personal experience thought logic. Sarcastic and introspective. All I got.

I read Incidents in the life of a slave girl, by Harriett Jacobs; one of the best and most moving autobiography I ever read. Then I started Uncle Tom's Cabin, never read it at uni weirdly enough... It's never too late I guess. Very good writing anyway.

Book[s] Currently Reading:

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku
This book by the renowned co-founder of String Theory is something I started just yesterday, but, only twenty pages into it, I have enjoyed nearly every other sentence. I am looking foward to getting into this book.

Book[s] Dropped:
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
This is the classic example of me being purely lazy. It was a good read (especially since it is more rigorous than what the general populace would be able to understand), but I got interested in other reads and never picked it up again. In Physics, Chaos theory was never a strength of mine, but I really should pick this up again.

Books Finished
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
This dystopian novel predates Brave New World and 1984, and it shows. If one has read the latter two, there is little to be gained from the former. Unfortunately, I read the book in translation only, but the work does contains a few powerful lines and ideas, but these are not pursued diligently excepting the main theme.

The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
Set in the backdrop of Heian Japan (reading The Tale of Genji, The Diary of Lady Marusaki Shikabu, and The Pillow Book of Shei Shonogan will help in the setting), this book chronicles the lives of three main characters as they grapple with what makes a human human. She pursues oh-so-few topics, but she does her pursuing undoggedly and powerfully.

Well I'm currently looking for an english copy of Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel.

Fiction
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Nonfiction
A Byte of Python by Swaroop C.H.


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Gunter Nimtz, Astrid Haibel "Zero Time Space: How Quantum Tunneling Broke the Light Speed Barrier"

Hugh Aldersey-Williams "Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc"

Currently reading
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, Stephen King

Books past
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King
Ranma II, Arthur C. Clarke
3001 The final odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

Have bought for future reading
Times eye, Arthur C. Clarke
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King
Needful things, Stephen King

Was browsing Barnes and Noble and found this:

Look Me in the Eye, by John Elder Robison
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/look-me ... 1102807922

Overview:
"Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself—and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It’s a strange, sly, indelible account—sometimes alien yet always deeply human."

need to learn more practical skills. 3 years of full time physics is plenty to satisfy my need for competence in that general area, for now. need to grab some books about mechanical engineering, once exams are done. then next year is an intensive course of software development, providing I do well enough in the aptitude test. although I wonder. i'll technically be fully qualified for software development work, but will they really choose someone who has done only a year in it, on an experimental course only introduced this year, over someone who has dedicated an entire undergrads to it? not sure that I even plan to go into software development as a career, but it's an extra, very useful, very employable, skillset and qualification to have, it certainly can't hurt.

Parents took me to The Hunger Games, the movie last night. Then I stayed up until 5 in the morning reading the book. I quite liked it.

Finished my first Terry Pratchett book, Equal Rites. And flicked through Game of Thrones... It appealed to me but I don't like having one chapter = one character much, and the characters tend to be unidimensional. I'll finish it, but I won't read the rest of the saga.

I liked that one... imagine a future in which not only do you have to find a lover, but get permission from the government to sleep with her... yikes.

currently reading "The Descent of Man" by Darwin