The silver lining is, I don't have to stay "still reading" for yet another week, as I finally finished Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch. Book 3 of Rivers of London series.

Yet another case involving magic in London and the Police solving it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] atomic@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I finished The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg and enjoyed it. It's actually remarkable that we as a species can tell such a specific story about the beginning of the universe using science.

I'm currently reading A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker: 1925-2025 by Deborah Treisman, which is an 1100-page long short story collection. So far, I enjoyed "The Weeds" by Mary McCarthy, and "Symbols and Signs" by Vladimir Nabokov.

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weinberg was such an intellectual giant, I've been too intimidated to try his pop-sci type stuff. I think it's time though.

[–] atomic@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I thought his writing was very accessible. In the first few chapters, he lays out the story of the first three minutes after the Big Bang in a very understandable way, and the rest of the book talks about how modern science figured it out (which is probably a more interesting story). Equations and more technical explanations are pushed to the appendix.