Recently finished The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia. Mexican fiction (translated to English)
about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. Enthralling story.
Also Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Pay attention to what is NOT said by the characters.
Starting A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith. The story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. (I’m a Floridian.)
Loved the book, and highly recommend Backman’s newest novel, Anxious People.
I started Wheel Of Time way back, got through book 11, and then Jordan passed. So I’m re-reading it from the beginning now that it’s 100% complete, mostly because my memory of what even happened isn’t as good as it could be. 
Are the stories basically the traditional ones, only more fleshed out? Or is this original work by Fry?
Somewhere in the middle? It is the traditional Greek myths but, Fry explicitly states that this is his telling and there are certain liberties he’s taken.
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I’ve just finished The Tower by Uwe Tellkamp (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20633073). The book probably has a very specific audience, esp. outside of Germany. However, if you are interested in the topic and like his style it is the best book you can find, hands down. What is it about? The story revolves around three families living in Dresden in the late GDR (I think 1983-1989). They have a bourgeoise background which is a problem in and of itself in a socialistic society. The book tells the story of their lives, comparable to another classical German novel, Buddenbrooks. However, I have no idea if this comparison is helpful to non-Germans. 
The book is a tome with almost 1000 pages. However, the literary quality of describing this milieu in the GDR is outstanding and easily one of the best books I have ever read.
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I enjoyed The Buddenbrooks back in high school while learning German.
I just started my first go around with this series in 2020. I am working on book 4 now, but, I take breaks in between books. I tried to read the Outlander series straight through and after an 18 month slog of just reading that story, I realized that I cannot binge books that way.
I have broken WOT with The Expanse, Dune and others.
I just finished Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, and Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Starting to read the Almanack of Naval Ravikant.
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I’m not sure this is a good idea for me. I am sure I will go back to how I first imagined the series when I was 8 or so and when Apple launch the TV series I am sure I will be quite critical. 
(already so-so about who they picked for Seldon!)
Oh and my choice of books are as follows:
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Manson
- Creating Flow with Omnifocus - Dini
- Finish Man’s Search for Meaning - Frankl
- Drive - Pink
- Strategy & the Fat Smoker (re-read) - Maister
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I read the three original Foundation books three times before I was fifteen, and carried those books with me whenever I moved from then on. They are so much in my head – and they are so much novels of imagination – that no matter how great the production values of the Apple TV+ version is, I cannot imagine being satisfied by it.
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I recently caught up with all of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books, and am currently working through Mark Greaney’s Gray Man novels. Not sure what to start after that, but I’m an Audible subscriber and have plenty in my library there still to listen to!
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Concur on your assessment of Ministry of the Future. Ezra Klein has a podcast with Kim Stanley on the book. Thought provoking read.
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So ou have been publicly shamed, its an old book from Jon Ronson, but so far its great
For We Are Many (Bobiverse book 2)
The Simple Path to Wealth
Your Money Or Your Life (rereading)
Total Recall (Schwarzenegger’s autobiography)
Ready Player 2
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My fav readings of 2020 include Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by 
journalist (living in NY) Clive Thompson, and various writings by Jordan B. Peterson. I’ve started the latter’s first book Maps of Meaning. This is relevant to the fiction side of cognitive productivity/ meta-effectiveness, i.e., Learning from Stories which may one day lead to new software.
I bought A Discovery of Witches for my spouse for xmas. Recommended by a friend. I intend to read it too!
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Yep that’s the one. Very good and not the usual (basic) finance content.
Right now: “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” by Christopher Hitchens. Let’s see what I’ll order next.
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Read “News of the Word” by Paulette Jiles. DON’T judge the book if you’ve seen the movie–the book is so much better.
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