Pandemic live-reads meta-thread. I have reasons I’m reading these right now and finding them useful for current headspace, but I’ll save those for a blog post. First one was history of Astounding, the legendary sci-fi magazine.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1233210973793574912 …
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Second: The Starship and the Canoe by Ken Brower, on father-son double biography of physicist Freeman Dyson and canoe-builder/outdoor adventurer/technology historian George Dyson. Freeman died just as pandemic struck. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234714328994988035?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234714328994988035 …
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Third up. Freedom’s Forge https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246567982932742144?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246567982932742144 …
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Next up, Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, though Im not yet done with the last one. It’s about life in the 14th century around the Black Death.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255170726878834695?s=21 …
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Co-opted guest thread, Weimar Germany: Promise and tragedy https://twitter.com/bravojohnson5/status/1282578335323676672?s=21 …https://twitter.com/BravoJohnson5/status/1282578335323676672 …
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Next up: Marshall Plan by Benn Steil. Feels like an appropriate sequel to Freedom’s Forgehttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1286523087437983744?s=21 …
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Next, Pale Rider by Laura Spinney. Spanish Flu here we come.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1304939108330954753?s=20 …
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The pandemic live reads thread is officially done. 6 book threads you me plus 1 guest thread. But if you’ve done a reading of a relevant book, feel free to link thread here.
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