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el-delacruz · 2 years

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emzeciorrr · 2 years

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aquitainequeen · 2 years

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Behind a paywall after you've read a certain number of articles, so;)

In 1851, Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor, found himself preoccupied with what might happen should coal mines—then and now one of the primary sources of usable energy—become depleted. He concluded that “the sea itself offers a perennial source of power hitherto almost unapplied.” Babbage was talking about tides, those lunar-guided movements of the world’s oceans, and the very synonym of dependable constancy. But while his Difference Engine, a mechanical calculator seen as a seminal fore-runner to the computer, would essentially go on to remake our world, Babbage’s ideas about tidal power drifted in the undercurrent for the next century and a half, largely the province of dreamers.

Lately, however, buoyed by successful demonstration projects and a new interest in renewable energy bolstered even further by Europe’s anticipated turning off of Russian taps, tidal energy is moving increasingly into the mainstream. While the number of megawatts produced annually by tidal—in places from Canada’s Bay of Fundy to South Korea’s Sihwa Lake—is still small, notes Donagh Cagney, policy director for the advocacy group Ocean Energy Europe, “the increase is exponential.” For example, by 2050, tidal energy is expected to account for 11% of the U.K.’s electricity, compared with just 3% today.

But in remote coastal Scotland, some residents are already getting a taste of that future. Scotland has become to tidal energy what Saudi Arabia is to fossil fuels. Cagney chalks this up to several factors, ranging from its geography—the country is blessed with some of the world’s fastest-moving tidal sounds—to its experience in working with offshore oil extraction. For those reasons, it has for almost two decades hosted the world’s biggest grid-connected test bed for tidal energy, the Euro-pean Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). Founded in 2003, it’s headquartered in the Orkney Islands, off Scotland’s northern coast. Neil Kermode, the center’s director since 2005, has seen some 35 tidal-energy projects tested, by startups that have come and gone—some shuttered for lack of capitalization or nonviable technology, some absorbed by larger companies like GE.

But the biggest project ever run at EMEC is still there, providing power for 1 in 12 Orcadian households. The O2, as it’s dubbed, created by the Scottish company Orbital Marine, weighs some 680 tons, is longer than a Boeing 747, and skims the top of the water like the world’s largest rowing scull. “It looks like, well, a yellow submarine,” says Kermode. “When you see it, and the tide is roaring past, it’s really hard to realize it’s stationary. There’s a real optical illusion—you think this thing is being towed through the water.” But the O2 is chained to the seabed, via four cables, each capable of lifting some 50 double-decker buses off the ground. Only the water is moving, pushing two 10-m.-long turbines with some 100 metric tons of pressure, and continuously generating 2,000 megawatts (mW), enough to power roughly 2,000 homes.

For the entrepreneurs and researchers dedicated to harnessing that power, the ocean—that primordial space out of which so much of life on earth emerged—seems destined to once again supply the forces that will help create a new phase of history. But as anyone who has ever battled the waves by boat or board knows, taming the tides will be a gargantuan task.

The idea is simple. First, tides. They rise and fall predictably, relentlessly driven by the gravitational pull of the moon. Those traits combined make the tide an attractive proposition for powering the grid. “The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow,” notes Simon Forrest, the CEO of Scotland-based tidal-power producer Nova Innovation. But with tidal, he says, “we can tell you how much we will be generating two minutes past 3 in the morning a month from now, five years from now.”

Second, you need what is basically the equivalent of a wind turbine, placed underwater (either moored to the seabed or attached to the underside of some floating structure), which drives a generator. And luckily, water is denser than air, by some 800 times. “You tend to get a more compact, powerful source of energy,” says Forrest. “Our turbines are a lot smaller than wind turbines, but produce a lot more bang for the buck.” Nova, in particular, has other advantages: where the O2 floats, Nova’s turbines lie beneath the ocean surface. “Our technologies are unaffected by storms,” says Forrest. There’s no visual impact, he says—aesthetics have been a reason many people have objected to wind turbines in the past—and do not create hazards for shipping or other marine operations.

Nova billed its initial deployment, in Scotland’s Shetland Islands in 2016, as the “world’s first offshore tidal array.” There are now six turbines in Shetland’s Bluemull Sound, powering homes and, thanks to a collaboration with Tesla, electric-vehicle charge points as well. After the success of that project, authorities granted Nova a license to build a 50-mW array, which will provide up to one-third of Shetland’s power.

“We’ve been producing clean, predictable power for six years in Shetland,” says Forrest. “And you don’t see it.” Another thing that consumers on Shetland—or Orkney—do not see is the true price of their energy use on their monthly bills, thanks to government subsidies. For the technology to grow and spread globally, tidal-energy companies will need to reduce costs through scale and technology-driven efficiency improvements. It’s not a fantasy; for example, in the U.S., the price of wind power has fallen 70% over the past decade.

There is the question of how mass deployment of tidal turbines might impact the seas. “If you are putting something in the ocean that is extracting energy, [you] are perturbating the ocean,” says Michela de Dominicis, a senior scientist with the U.K.’s National Oceanographic Centre. “This can have cascading effects,” like disrupting the nutrient mix of ocean ecosystems as well as raising water temperatures. Her research suggests, however, that any disturbances may well be worth it. “In one of my papers I was showing that even if I’m putting like 20,000 turbines at sea and I’m perturbating the environment,” she says, “this effect is one order of magnitude less than what can happen with climate change.”

Tidal energy’s biggest hurdle may simply be the limited number of places in the world where it’s possible. In the U.S., aside from a small project in New York’s East River—which powers the equivalent of fewer than 400 homes—few sites have been identified that have the promise of Scotland’s waters. What the U.S. does have in abundance is coastline, which speaks to the promise of another ocean-energy source: waves. Despite an early burst of enthusiasm for wave power a few decades ago, tidal has since eclipsed it, in part because the open seas make for a more challenging environment. “It’s an unconventional resource,” says Andrew Scott, the CEO of Orbital Marine, who previously worked at Pelamis, an early and now defunct wave-power startup. “Waves have a vertical excursion. They’ve got a horizontal excursion. They’ve got a cyclical motion; they’ve got buoyance force; they’ve got different wavelengths that come at different angles. There’s no conceptual agreement … as to how you’re going to capture the energy.”

Given the potential payoff, however, people keep seeking new solutions. Inna Braverman, co-founder and CEO of the Israeli startup Eco Wave Power, thinks that early wave-power pioneers erred in trying to work far offshore. “The price was sky-high,” she says. “You need divers; you need to put all the conversion equipment inside the actual floaters that are in the middle of the sea.” Her company instead affixes wave-driven generators to onshore features like breakwaters. A pilot project in Gibraltar has been providing power for roughly 100 homes since 2016 at a fraction of the cost of offshore wave projects, she says. And the company is ramping up, with megawatt-level projects in Portugal and, most recently, the Port of Los Angeles.

Whether it’s moving on a wave or via the tide, water seems an integral part of the future energy equation. “The low-hanging fruit of wind and solar has been plucked,” says Cagney. “To get to net zero, we’re going to need every renewables resource we’ve got.” And as the global impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine underscore, energy security requires having a diversity of inputs. “There’s an advantage in having an energy source driven by a different sort of forces, because it means they don’t all align at the same time,” says Forrest. “If the wind doesn’t blow, it doesn’t stop the tide from flowing.”

#tidal power #tide power #tides #tide turbines #green energy #shetland #orkney islands #oh brave new world

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dbphantom · 3 years

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I'm on a mission to collect as many characters for Benjamin Franklin High as possible based on characters from the comics, the webbed sites, and the show. Now including characterizations and tiny tidbits of lore abt symbiosis labs, the place mentioned in the comics a handful of times that I totally didn’t yoink for plot (((:

Here's who I have so far:

Faculty:

Mr. Babbage (from M. Rex, biology teacher, I swapped his affiliation from Heaven Society to an ex-scientist from the now defunct Symbiosis Labs, dating (?) Mia Moore, fairly full of himself and looks down on his students)

Ms. Darcy (from M. Rex, Home Ec. teacher, best friends with Mia Moore, crushing on Mr. Buchiner, very sweet to her students, if not a bit too much of a chatterbox)

Ms. Moore (from M. Rex, literature teacher, dating (?) Simon Babbage, ex-spokesperson for Symbiosis, best friends with Darcy, loves to tell stories about herself)

Mr. Spilken (from M. Rex, history teacher, ex-research assistant at Symbiosis Labs, whistleblower, but ended up throwing his partner under the bus to keep his position, kind of a sleezy dude, but his classes are easy to goof off in because he doesn’t care that much)

Mr. Buchiner (in the show, math teacher, really wants a pony, really dislikes table tennis, just wants to teach math and go home at the end of the day, fairly strict but kind to students who actually try)

Dr. Faurbeck (from agentsofprovidence.com, in-school therapist specializing in mental health and nanites, always relates things back to nanites, even if you’re just venting about your best friend being kind of a jerk yesterday)

Mr. Dahl Lee (from the comics, art/music teacher- his wife, Olivia Lee worked at Symbiosis Labs as a lab tech before an explosion killed her and turned their son into an EVO (the event that made Symbiosis go under), a bit high strung, but gets in his element when talking about art)

Dr. Eden Williams (from the comics, superintendent, in the past moved from Providence to Symbiosis Labs to get funding for nanite research, always gets what she wants no matter the cost)

Principal Rothberger (from the show, principal, prioritizes the reputation of his school)

>if you’re wondering why so many of the faculty at BFHS have been involved in Symbiosis Labs, don’t worry about it <3

Students:

Daniel H. (livingwithnanites.com, transferred schools to work with Dr. Faurbeck after his teacher mutated in front of him)

Amir S. (livingwithnanites.com, bit of a loner, great artist though)

Christina Hicks (livingwithnanites.com, facebook, mom (?) mutated while driving her home from school)

Jack Casey (livingwithnanites.com, facebook, football player, took a Providence training course with friends, his brother, Will, went missing and mutated into an EVO, a rumor about Jack being an EVO spread around after an incident at football practice)

>the implication that Six has a facebook page just makes me giggle

Will Casey (facebook, brother of Jack Casey, into fencing and chess, became an EVO after going missing)

Sophie Reed (facebook, girlfriend (?) of Jack Casey, good at science, specifically chemistry and biology, got her video of an EVO attack featured on re-evolvers.com, part of the biology club)

Zain Khan (facebook (mentioned only), football player, got injured during practice after getting tackled by Jack)

Joseph McKelly (”McKelly” in the show, skater, gets into trouble a lot, is a bit mean even to his friends) ((portrayed by Joe Kelly))

Steven Beagle (”Beagle” in the show, skater, gets into detention for goofing off in class, is otherwise fairly chill) ((portrayed by Steven T. Seagle))

Duncan Douleur (”Dunky” in the show, skater, gets into detention for listening to music during class, mostly harmless) ((portrayed by Duncan Rouleau))

Joe Cassidy (”Shades” in the show, skater, the one who takes charge, kind of a douche to anyone not in his friend group) ((portrayed by Joe Casey))

>all the ‘men of action’ have names that are variations of who they’re a reference to on the Man of Action team so I decided to do that with their ‘real’ names, too :P

Brendan Paulson (from the comics, resident computer nerd, programmer for the robotics club)

Josephine Nixon (from the comics, Noah’s cousin, (dad’s brother’s kid?) probably not a full-time student, comes to visit from California)

Annika ? (from the comics, friends with Xan, enjoys horror movies, table tennis player)

Xan ? (from the comics, friends with Annika, big movie buff, cool glasses, helps design robots for the robotics club)

Christine ? (from the comics, works at the nearby mall part-time, constantly busy, is always late for something)

??? [Jason Norris] (from the show, I made up a name based on his voice actor, he’s the jerk football (?) player and since he had a fairly prominent role in without a paddle i thought it would be sad to not include him)

Tanner Norris (from the show, a dude Noah says hi to in Guy Vs Guy, he looks so much like Jason I honestly thought it was him until I realized they have different colored hair, so now in my mind they are brothers... I imagine he’s nicer than his bro tho since Noah seems happy to see him)

Chris ? (from the show, another guy Noah greets, we never get a look at his face, he looks like he’s carrying a gym bag so he’ll probably be a table tennis player (plus he and Noah have a whole handshake thing going on))

Noelle ? (from the show, she’s shown in both ‘without a paddle’ and ‘guy vs guy’ tho we only get her name in the latter, really dislikes math)

and finally two really obvious ones:

Claire Bowman (from the show, absolute sweetheart, best friends with Annie, super intelligent and really into science, keeps Noah in line)

Annie ? (from the show, uber clumsy, best friends with Claire, also very much into science, has dated a lot of guys and almost killed most of them by accident, daughter of Ms. Darcy)

#and that's THAT #this took wayyy too long to collect #i was gonna add the biker guys buuuut im tiiiiired #generator rex #cruddy rambles #secret identity au

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farnwedel · 3 years

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Jahresrückblick/book rec 2021

13 neu gelesene Bücher dieses Jahr. Auch wieder recht wenig. Dafür habe ich die letzten vier innerhalb dieses Monats gelesen - Urlaub und Freizeit zu haben scheint dem Leseverhalten zuträglich zu sein. Und mit dieser bahnbrechenden Erkenntnis wünsche ich euch einen guten Rutsch & alles Gute für 2022!

In dieser Ausgabe:

False Value (Rivers of London) - Emma - The Benefit of Hindsight - Die Nebel von Avalon - The Hunting Party - Do Not Disturb - Gemeinwohlökonomie - Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming - Ein Ritter für Lady Arlette - Lady Chatterley’s Lover - What Red Was - Teufelskrone - Das Labyrinth des Fauns

False Value (Rivers of London)

Autor: Ben Aaronovitch

Inhalt: Terence Skinner, Elon Musks australischer Zwilling, hat sich mit seiner Firma in London niedergelassen. Zeitgleich ist ein fast unbekanntes Artefakt, geschaffen von Ada Lovelace und Charles Babbage, verschwunden. Hängen diese Ereignisse zusammen? Und wenn ja, was führt Skinner mit IT aus dem 19. Jahrhundert im Schilde? Peter Grant, Technik-Fanboy, werdender Vater und Zauberer in Ausbildung bei der Metropolitan Police, ermittelt.

Kommentar: Ich habe das Gefühl, dass sich der Fokus der Reihe allmählich stärker auf die Stammbesetzung konzentriert und weniger auf den Fall. Gerade in diesem Buch hätte ich mir tatsächlich mehr technobabble gewünscht. Aber ich verfolge auch die Beziehungen und den Alltag von Peter, Beverley, Nightingale, Molly, Foxglove, Sahra Guleed, Kim Reynolds usw. sehr gerne, von daher - few complaints. Außerdem finde ich es einfach sehr charmant und erfrischend, dass Peter sich immer noch in Ausbildung befindet, Fortbildungen besucht, “Hausaufgaben” macht und das Folly allmählich ins 21. Jahrhundert bringt.

Empfehlenswert für: Fans der Reihe. Und wer sie noch nicht kennt, der lese sie gefälligst. :D

Emma

Autorin: Jane Austen

Inhalt: Emma Woodhouse spielt Tinder, vertut sich dabei manchmal gewaltig und übersieht ihre eigenen Gefühle, bis es (vermeintlich) zu spät ist.

Kommentar: Emma ging mir tatsächlich weniger auf die Nerven, als ich gedacht hätte. :D Dafür hat mir fast ein Konflikt gefehlt - also, ein echter, kein von Emma selbst gemachter. So war das Buch ganz angenehm zu lesen, aber überraschend unspektakulär. Die Emma/Knightley-Beziehung überrumpelt ein wenig, ist in den letzten zwei Kapiteln aber solide.

Empfehlenswert für: Austen-Fans, duh.

The Benefit of Hindsight

Autorin: Susan Hill

Inhalt: Simon Serrailler is back und zeichnet jetzt die Wasserspeier auf dem renoviert werdenden Kirchendach. Also, in seiner Freizeit. Beruflich darf er sich damit auseinandersetzen, dass offenbar eine Bande durch die Gegend zieht, die unter dem Vorwand einer Reifenpanne reiche Häuser ausspioniert und sie wenig später ausraubt. So weit, so unangenehm - bis bei einem Überfall ein Mord passiert.

Kommentar: Nach dem letzten Band hatte ich eigentlich nicht vor, nochmal einen Serrailler zu lesen, aber dieser hier war eine deutliche Verbesserung. Das lag zum einen an dem Fall und zum anderen daran, dass er sich nicht so stark auf Simon konzentriert hat, sondern dass Cat und ihre Kinder wieder eine größere Rolle spielten. Manche der Leute in diesem Buch treffen ganz vernünftige Entscheidungen - zum Beispiel Cats Ältester, Sam. Oder eine Zeugin. Das ist mir sympathisch.

Empfehlenswert für: Fans der Reihe, Krimifans (aber es endet mit einem Cliffhanger, also...bereitet euch darauf vor, an diesen Büchern hängenzubleiben!)

Die Nebel von Avalon

Autorin: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Inhalt: Die Artussage, aber mit Emma-Feminismus, yay!

Kommentar: ...die nerven alle. Feministische Tendenzen heutzutage etwas fragwürdig. Zu viel Mystik und Religion und zu wenig Politik/Zeitgeschehen. Artus, Gwenny und Lance hätten einfach ein glückliches threesome werden sollen, statt sich ständig nacheinander und vor Schuldgefühlen zu verzehren. Elaine und Nimue deserved better. “Wenn die ganzen Hauptfiguren nicht wären, wäre das sicher ein ganz tolles Buch!”

Empfehlenswert für: ??? Ich hab’s nur gelesen, weil mein Lieblingsbuchblog irgendwann mittendrin aufgehört hatte.

The Hunting Party

Autorin: Lucy Foley

Inhalt: Ein Haufen junger Londoner Pärchen (und eine Singlefrau), die sich aus ihrer Oxforder Unizeit kennen, reisen über Silvester in die schottische Pampa, um dort in aller Abgeschiedenheit ins neue Jahr zu feiern. Da die Gruppe einen Riesenhaufen baggage mitbringt, kommt es, wie es kommen muss: eine:r stirbt.

Kommentar: Ich muss mir bei sowas immer in Erinnerung rufen, dass ich in Schottland auch nur Touristin war. Die Londoner sind etwas anstrengend. Die Schotten sind alle ziemlich kauzig. Und alle haben irgendeine Form von Dunkler Vergangenheit(TM). Redet doch einfach mal miteinander!!!! :D Außerdem muss ich sagen: Dieser Typ Frau, der in diesem Buch eine wichtige Rolle spielt - glamourös, beliebt, Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit, selbstbewusst, aber im tiefsten Inneren einsam und gebrochen und daher ständig high/betrunken - ist mir ein bisschen suspekt. Ich weiß nicht, warum. Es stört mich einfach.

Empfehlenswert für: heiße Sommervormittage auf dem Balkon. Wenn man von verschneiten Wäldern und zugefrorenen Seen liest, ist die Hitze ganz erträglich. :P

Do Not Disturb

Autorin: Claire Douglas

Inhalt: Kirsty, ihr Mann und ihre beiden Töchter ziehen aus London in die Brecon Beacons, um dort im alten Pfarrhaus ein B&B aufzumachen. Finanziert und unterstützt werden sie von Kirstys Mutter. Ihr erster Gast ist Kirstys Cousine Selena, die Kirsty eigentlich nie wieder sehen wollte. Denn neben ihrer kranken Tochter bringt Selena einen Haufen Geheimnisse und Probleme mit sich.

Kommentar: Yo. Noch ein Buch mit einer mysteriösen, bezaubernden Frau, die alle in ihren Bann und damit in die Verdammnis zieht. Vielleicht lag’s auch nur daran, dass ich das direkt nach The Hunting Party gelesen habe, aber der Tropus nervt langsam. Außerdem hatte ich das Gefühl, dass dieses Buch zu viel auf einmal sein will: Familiendrama, Horrorgeschichte, Psychothriller, Krimi und das klassische Genre “Haben wir Frauen nicht alle abgefuckte Beziehungen zu unseren Müttern?”

Empfehlenswert für: die dunkle Seite des Rosamunde-Pilcher-Fandoms. Und Ari Aster. Ich fände es spannend zu sehen, was er daraus macht.

Gemeinwohlökonomie

Autor: Christian Felber

Inhalt: Ökonomie sollte auf das Gemeinwohl ausgerichtet sein und nicht auf den Profit Einzelner; here’s how we do this.

Kommentar: Also. Grundsätzlich ist der Gedanke nicht falsch. Aber der Tonfall, in dem das Buch geschrieben ist; die doch sehr westliche Perspektive, die golable Zusammenhänge nicht ausreichend mit einbezieht; der seltsame Fokus auf Landwirtschaft und Sätze wie “joa, ein freies Jahr für die Familie reicht, oder? (I mean, it’s one banana, Michael.)” machen die Lektüre etwas anstrengend.

Empfehlenswert für: BWL-Justusse. (Justi? Justuuuus? Ach nee, “für”, also Justibus?)

Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming

Autor: Benjamin R. Barber

Inhalt: Klimaschutz kann nur aus den Städten heraus funktionieren.

Kommentar: Einige gute Ansätze, aber auch wieder etwas eindimensional in dem Sinne, dass es sich natürlich stark auf Probleme und Maßnahmen im urbanen Kontext konzentriert.

Empfehlenswert für: an Kommunalpolitik Interessierte; Leute, die sich für städtischen Klimaschutz einsetzen

Ein Ritter für Lady Arlette

Autorin: Helen Dickson

Inhalt: Lady Arlette muss als Kind vor den Rundköpfen nach London fliehen und wird dabei von einem jungen Ritter eskortiert. Jahre später kommt er wieder, diesmal im Gefolge von König Charles II, und eine einigermaßen erotische Romanze entspinnt sich - die natürlich nicht ganz konfliktfrei ist.

Kommentar: ...ja, es ist ein Groschenroman. Und ein recht zahmer noch dazu. War stellenweise ganz witzig zu lesen, aber ich hätte eigentlich mit etwas mehr Sex gerechnet, tbh. :D

Empfehlenswert für: Edeltraud und Brigitte, denen 50 Shades zu spicy ist.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Autor: D. H. Lawrence

Inhalt: Constance und Clifford Chatterley sind glücklich verheiratet, bis Clifford querschnittsgelähmt aus dem Krieg zurückkommt und ihrer Beziehung die Körperlichkeit abhanden kommt. Constance orientiert sich anderweitig. Das kann ja nur schief gehen.

Kommentar: Ich hätte dieses Buch nicht in den Wintermonaten in einer Pandemie lesen sollen. Meine Güte, alles ist grau und hoffnungs- und leblos, die Menschen sind leer, die Natur wird von der Industrie verdrängt...Außerdem kann ich gut nachvollziehen, dass das Buch damals(TM) skandalös war. Und ich sehe auch, dass der Autor versucht, Sex und Natur miteinander zu verknüpfen. Aber die Art und Weise, wie Connie sich und ihre Männer ungefähr 90% der Zeit beschreibt, macht das Ganze so erotisch wie Waschbeton.

Empfehlenswert für: Prudence und Doris, denen 50 Shades zu spicy ist.

What Red Was

Autorin: Rosie Price

Inhalt: Kate schließt zu Beginn ihrer Uni-Zeit Freundschaft mit Max und kommt dadurch mit seiner (erfolg)reichen Familie in Kontakt: mit seiner Mutter Zara, einer bekannten Regisseurin, mit seiner Schwester Nicole, die Beta-Blocker nimmt, mit seinem Vater William, einem Arzt, der irgendwann die Herstellung von Sauerteigbrot für sich entdeckt, und mit seinem Cousin Lewis, der ein Nietzsche-Tattoo oberhalb seines Penis’ hat. Das er ihr zeigt und sie dann vergewaltigt.

Kommentar: Es ist Rosie Price’ erster Roman und ich will daher nicht zu hart urteilen. Aber mir fehlt in diesem Buch die Konsequenz. Mit den Figuren passieren eigentlich ziemlich üble Dinge, oder sie tun sich selbst etwas an, und nichts davon hat tiefgreifende Konsequenzen. Die Figuren leiden, aber man leidet nicht so richtig mit - entweder, weil im nächsten Kapitel vage beschrieben wird “ja, XY ging dann regelmäßig zur Therapie, no details needed” oder, weil das Leiden im nächsten Absatz aus der Perspektive einer anderen Figur beschrieben wird. Das ist ein weiteres Problem - die vielen gefühlt willkürlichen POV-Wechsel. Das Buch lässt einen mit der Frage zurück, was denn jetzt eigentlich der Sinn der Geschichte war und wohin sie gegangen ist.

Empfehlenswert für: jedenfalls niemanden, der Probleme mit Alkohol- und/oder Drogenmissbrauch, sexueller Gewalt, Panikattacken oder Depressionen hat.

Teufelskrone

Autorin: Rebecca Gablé

Inhalt: Yvain, jüngerer Sohn des Lord Waringham, wird durch verschiedene Umstände Knappe von Prinz John, dem Bruder des Königs. Richard Löwenherz befindet sich im Ausland in Gefangenschaft, und ein Kampf um die Krone und diverse Territorien im heutigen Frankreich entbrennt. Yvains Treue zu Prinz John wird mehrfach auf eine harte Probe gestellt, ebenso wie seine Selbstbeherrschung in der Gegenwart seiner Schwägerin.

Kommentar: Hochspannend und informativ. Rebecca Gablé packt ein Vierteljahrhundert englischer Geschichte in einen dichten Roman, der nie langweilt. Auch wenn man historische Ereignisse und die anderen Waringham-Romane (dieser ist ein Prequel) kennt, tut die Vorhersehbarkeit der Spannung keinen Abbruch. Im Gegenteil. Ich musste das Buch ein paarmal hinlegen und auf- und abgehen, weil ich genau wusste, there it is, the fuckening, und mich mental darauf einstellen musste. - Einziger Wermutstropfen sind die romantischen Beziehungen; ich konnte keine davon ganz nachvollziehen und/oder shippen. Dafür bin ich immer wieder Fan der subtilen referenzen zu Gablés anderen Romanen. (”Was, [Hauptperson aus Hiobs Brüder] ist dein Onkel? Der war bei unserer Hochzeit!”) :D

Empfehlenswert für: Fans der Reihe, Fans von historischen Romanen allgemein (mit starkem Fokus auf den historischen Events). Diesen hier kann man auch gut als standalone lesen.

Das Labyrinth des Fauns

Autor*innen: Cornelia Funke, Guillermo del Toro

Inhalt: Im Jahr 1944 zieht Ofelia mit ihrer schwangeren Mutter zu deren neuem Mann, Capitán Vidal, in eine Mühle mitten im Wald. Vidal jagt dort Guerillakämpfer, die sich gegen die Franco-Diktatur auflehnen. In den alten Wäldern um die Mühle stößt Ofelia auf tote Bäume, Feen und ein uraltes Labyrinth - in dem ein Faun ihr drei Aufgaben gibt.

Kommentar: Cornelia Funke verwebt in der Buchfassung zu Pan’s Labyrinth Märchen und Geschichte zu einer Handlung, in der immer wieder neue Puzzleteile eingesetzt werden und das Bild vervollständigen. Die Mischung aus Grausamkeit, Phantasie und Ofelias kindlicher Perspektive stimmt. Der Funke’sche Schreibstil ist hier nicht prominent, was aber gar nicht schlimm ist.

Empfehlenswert für: mich, weil mich die Geschichte interessiert, ich mich aber nicht getraut habe, den Film anzusehen.

#intermezzo #book rec #false value #emma #the benefit of hindsight #die nebel von avalon #the hunting party #do not disturb #gemeinwohlökonomie #cool cities #ein ritter für lady arlette #lady chatterley's lover #what red was #teufelskrone #das labyrinth des fauns

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There is Joy in Simplicity: 19th century Optical Toys

A late 19th century advertisement for the Stereoscope. It advertises the ability to be “Around the World in 60 minutes” reflecting the educational quality people believed the Stereoscope to have. Source.

I have become engrossed in the world of Yo-Yos lately. This little hunk of plastic with the name Duncan painted on the side, flying through the air on a string. By itself it seems so perfectly simple, however the world of Yo-Yos is deeper than one would think. For instance, there’s several different types of Yo-Yos with their own advantages and disadvantages based on their material and shape. While a Yo-Yo may seem like a simple toy, they also demonstrate a humans ability to learn reflexes. At first, I could barely get the Yo-Yo to come back up but after weeks of continued use I can shoot a dog across the wooden floor of my mother’s kitchen. Toys in a society are truly significant, because they represent what that society wants the young to learn or what they themselves want to play with. They are a form of experimentation.

Just as the yo-yo represents a learning of reflexes, the toys of 19th century America reflect the societal obsession with illusion and vision. Granted, people of the 19th century already had stuff like dolls (which I would argue is still related to vision of the human form), wooden tops and yoyos, dominos, balls, and all other means of play, but the late 19th century sees a boom of vision-based toys. We see the kleidoskope, the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the stereoscope, the zoetrope, and the praxinoscope emerge as these fun little practices in vision. The early hints of film, the basics of animation, the play of illusion all appear in this era.

These toys exist as echoes of the 19th century American societal interest in deception, vision, and representation of self. In the early 19th century, the American faced challenges of identity, the crowd, later on they faced the mass societal grief and crisis of war, the camera as a view of reality, and the concept of the showman like P.T. Barnum, going into the late years of the era we see the early hints of film come out and the concepts of reality. Throughout the 19th century we see visions-based gadgets appear as supplements to the already ongoing discussions of view. Toys like the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the stereoscope, and the zoetrope and praxinoscope all represent a growing societal interest in vision and experimentation throughout the 19th century.

An 1818 illustration titled “Human Nonsense”, the man in the top hat is so entranced by the kaleidoscope, he doesn’t notice he’s walking directly in front of a bike. The Victorians had what Is now called a “craze” over kaleidoscopes as they allowed exploration of vision. Source.

The first optical toy to be invented in the Victorian age was the Kaleidoscope in 1816, by David Brewster, who we will see appear again. Jason Farman of Atlas Obscura describes the 19th century kaleidoscope design as, “made from a range of materials, such as tubes made of brass with embellishments of wood or leather or those cheaply made of tin. The base of the tube was typically filled with broken pieces of glass, ribbons, or other small trinkets.” When viewed from one side, the other would appear as a range of fantastical colors, patterns, and shapes. It almost immediately gained massive popularity, amongst both children and adults, scientists, artists, and industry professionals. Scientists “found it useful as a tool to visualize massive numbers” while artists and industrials used it “for patterns on china, paper, carpets, floor-cloths, and other fabrics” (Farman).

It was experimentation in the role of the eye in light, and shape, along with the illusions of beauty, or reality, when viewed close with a magnifier. Truthfully, some people felt betrayed when they found out what was inside of a kaleidoscope, R.S. Dement, a playwright, writes he was “deceived (as a child) into believing that what he saw was at least the shadow of something real and beautiful, when in truth it was only a delusion” (Farman). However, this only further intrigued some of the Victorian viewers:

These new visual tricksters fed into the fascination in the deficits of the human eye and how it could be misled. As people began understanding human vision differently because of these objects, people also began seeing the world through machines like trains, moving walkways, and steamships (Farman).

While the kaleidoscope is simplistic, it is not to be denied it is important as a starting point for the 19th century conversation on vision. A tube that presents to the viewer an illusionary range of symmetrical colors and patterns, created by broken glass, ribbons, and random scraps.

Vignette by George Cruikshank from Philosophy in Sport, 1827. Source.

The next optical toy to appear was the thaumatrope, appearing in the mid-1820s (when it was first published) by John Aryton Paris. The history of the thaumatrope is a mixed and complex mess of early 19th century scientific figures making a bet, including John Herschel (A popular astronomer), Charles Babbage (A mathematician who made the calculating engine), and David Brewster, however it stands clear as a true foundation of visual interest (Herbert). As much as I talk it up, the toy is extremely simple. It consists of a piece of cardboard with two strings on each end, with a picture on both sides (the classic example is bird on one side and a cage on the other) and when the user twists the strings fast enough the two images appear to become one (The bird appears inside of the cage). The same effect had been created by spinning a coin previously, however the thaumatrope was the first to give “the phenonium a scientific explanation and a device produced to be sold as a popular entertainment” (Gunning 499).

Bird-in-Cage Thaumatrope, the classic example and believed to be the first thaumatrope image created as an example, by Dr. Fitton. This depiction pictures the expected result of twisting the strings. Source.

While it is basic, its an extremely effective toy for teaching a core concept of the 19th century. There is flaw in the human vision, or moreso, the human vision has depths and conditions. From 1827’s Philosophy in Sport by Paris, “I will now show you that the eye also has its source of fallacy” says “Mr. Seymour” as he operates the device (501). Its simplicity allows there to be no questions about interference from the toy’s design, there is no mirror, or screen, or other window the viewer is looking at the toy at through.

“We can operate it and understand its process. But the image it produces is not fixed in space, embodied in pigment or canvas; it occurs in our perception. Yet while it may be defined as a subjective image, taking place through our individual processes of perception, it is not a fantasy or, in a psychological sense, a hallucination” (513).

There is simply vision, and the effect of the lasting image (called an afterimage) the human eye creates with the reality the user is the sole reason the illusion continues. Tom Gunning captures perfectly what the Thaumatrope meant as a foundational toy, “This device introduces to the Victorian era a new class of images simultaneously technological, optical, and perceptual” (500). It is the perfect device to start the 19th century with a magical simplicity that allows the user to experience illusion in their own hands through natural processes of the eye.

An illustration depicting a person using the phenakistoscope. Of course, it’s impossible to depict the movement accurately in a drawing. Source.

Later, in 1832, the phenakistoscope was “simultaneously invented…by Joseph Plateau in Brussels and by Simon von Stampfer in Berlin” though other concepts were in the works at the same time (“Phenakistoscopes (1833)”). The so called “parlour toy” is a cardboard disc on a handheld stick with an outer circle of images and an inner circle of slits which the viewer would look through. The “trick” of the toy is to spin it while looking through the slits into a mirror, where the images on the outer circle jump to life in animation through the distortion and the flicker of light as the disc moves. “The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture” (“A Short History of the Phenakistoscope”). Its one of the earliest forms of animation, completely using human sight as its method.

A Phenakistoscope featuring zebras and monkeys in a jungle setting, the zebras would run, and the monkeys would swing when viewed through a mirror. This particular phenakistoscope is from a competing product of the original production, “Mclean’s Optical Illusions or Magic Panorama” from 1833. This is a simplistic image, but phenakistoscopes became more complex as years went on. Source.

Like how the thaumatrope represents a flaw in human vision, the phenakistoscope fully represents the conditionality of vision. The human eye is susceptible to condition, to light, to distortion of light, to illusion. The illusion is only possible through a window, the mirror, showing the young the new concepts of the human eye as an unreliable “narrator” by itself. However, at the same time it shows it through an exciting illusion of movement. The Phenakistoscope saw mass popularity, being published under names like Fantoscope and “Magic Wheel”, leading to further visual toys being produced which would eventually overtake the simple phenakistoscope and thaumatrope. However, before we get into them let us take a quick sideroad into the world of photography.

A 1908 advertisement for a stereoscope viewer in the Pittsburgh Daily Post. It presents the stereoscope as a tool, and as entertainment. Source.

In 1838, Charles Wheatstone published a paper reporting an odd illusion he had discovered where two drawings of the same object, at slightly different perspectives, were placed next to each other the two would be fused together by the eye into a three-dimensional view of it. It is realized this is exactly how the eye functions, each eye taking its own perspective and the two images fusing together for a full three-dimensional view (Thompson). From Oliver Wendell Holme’s 1859 essay on the Stereoscope (After it gained mass popularity):

The two eyes see different pictures of the same thing, for the obvious reason that they look from points two or three inches apart. By means of these two different views of an object, the mind, as it were, feels round it and gets an idea of its solidity. We clasp an object with our eyes, as with our arms, or with our hands (Jacobi).

Wheatstone created a table-top device to demonstrate this effect more easily and clearly, thus the world’s first stereoscope was created, a product of the 19th century’s scientific endeavors.

However, the mass market version of the stereoscope would not be refined and produced until a decade later, by Davis Brewster (who you may remember as the inventor of the kaleidoscope and involved with the thaumatrope) who crafted it into a handheld model in 1849, enabling a scene to appear anywhere.

The refinement of the stereoscope just so happened to align with the release of the first photographs (the specific type called daguerreotypes) as well, enabling the device to show its true potential. “Once Brewster’s design hit the market, the stereoscope exploded in popularity” writes Clive Thompson of the Smithsonian, “The London Stereoscopic Company sold affordable devices; its photographers fanned out across Europe to snap stereoscopic images. In 1856, the firm offered 10,000 views in its catalog, and within six years they’d grown to one million.” The stereoscope, at least its phenomenon, is possibly one of the most long-lasting of these optical toys, considering 3D magic books are on the shelves that use stereoscope technology and some virtual reality headsets rely on the same visual illusion to function.

A stereograph of Indian people gathered outside of a building, created between 1860 and 1930. Stereographs were viewed as tools for exploring the world without literally traveling, however it also led to people objectifying different cultures as they were not people but depictions of people that lacked relation. Source.

The stereoscope equipped with the stereograph became a scientific tool, a toy, and an educational object. Astronomers used it to peer closer at celestial objects. “Astronomers realized that if they took two pictures of the moon—shot months apart from each other—then it would be like viewing the moon using a face that was the size of a city: “Availing ourselves of the giant eyes of science,” as one observer wrote. (The technique indeed revealed new lunar features)” (Thompson). It also became a tool of education, as a way for the child to view far off locations and immerse in a select scene, which the Victorian believed sharpened the child’s attention as their mind was “chaotic and unfocused”. The mass popularity of the stereoscope enabled mass collections of stereographs to develop, which further allowed people to see far off regions, of India, of Asia, of Africa, and the landmarks of Europe, South America, and their own America. However, overall, it remains a toy, a device for entertainment, a way to immerse oneself in another world, another plane, another region.

The stereoscope reflects the society’s interest in vision, the world, and the depths of the human eye. The lighting illusionary discovery reveals the eye to be more than seen, a thing to be further explored. The use of the stereograph reveals the human eye to have complex mechanisms of sight, what you see if not simplistic it is made up of two images. People collected hundreds of stereographs that depicted America, landmarks, animals, people, and any other thing you could imagine into countless to indulge in. However, it is important for the Victorian, and us, to remember however, a person inside of a photograph is not a person, it is the depiction of a person.

A 19th century advertisement for the Zoetrope from T.H. McAllister, describing the Zoetrope as “an instructive Scientific Toy, illustrating in an attractive manner the persistence of an image on the retina of the eye.” The nickname “Wheel of Life” comes from the way the images appear to “jump to life”. Source.

The direct improvement of the phenakistoscope was the cylindrical Zoetrope, first invented by William George Horner in 1834 (only a year or two after the phenakistoscope) who originally named it the Daedalum (the “Wheel of the Devil”) but only marketed in 1887 under the new name of Zoetrope (A combination of the Greek words for life and turn). It improves on the phenakistoscope in two aspects, the user did not need a mirror to observe the effect, and the device could be enjoyed by more than one person at a time. The Zoetrope works in a similar method, along with also being constructed of cardboard, to the phenakistoscope:

Photo included with the article, showing the construction of the zoetrope. Source.

The zoetrope is a mechanical device that produces the effect of motion through a rapid succession of static images, seen through the slits in a rotating cylinder. The sequenced drawings or photographs lie beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder, and as the cylinder spins the viewer looks through the slits at the opposite side of the interior. This scanning action prevents the images from blurring together, and the viewer is treated to a repeating motion picture (Kumar).

The device is considered an early work of animation, along with the flipbook, and acts as a supplement to the evolving concept of human vision, deception, and illusion in the 19th century. From the time of its creation to its market appearance, P.T. Barnum rose to worldwide fame, the Civil war ended, the concept of photographs and spirit photography had arrived, and the societal concept of children had evolved. It is only just then, that the Zoetrope is succeeded by yet another evolution of vision, the Praxinoscope.

An advertisement for the Praxinoscope theatre at the 1878 Exposition Universal in Paris, highlighting its winning of a bronze medal. Source.

The Praxinoscope was created in 1877 by Emile Reynaud, a Frenchman. It is similar in design to the Zoetrope, however it has one innovation that makes it superior, it replaces the slits used to create the effect with narrow vertical mirrors placed in the center of the drum (Greenslade). This enabled even further wider audiences, along with cleaner, brighter animation which was vital in an era before the lightbulb. The praxinoscope garnered massive popularity, being used in homes, and presented as theatres like the one above.

The zoetrope and the praxinoscope both represent the later ends of the 19th century in terms of the view of vision, as this concept that exists to be explored, a thing that can view through windows into other realities, that of film, of moving pictures, of the modern cinema experience. They stand as foundational objects to the modern film industry, with film coming quickly after their creation in the late 1800s and early 1900s. While these toys are simplistic to the modern viewer, they stand as important milestones of concepts of human vision, of looking askance, and of the eye.

Lithograph by Alfred Mahlau from “Spielzeug, eine Bunte Fibel”, a german book from 1938 by Hans-Friedrich von Geist. The lithograph shows a Kaleidoscope, A Stereoscope, a Zoetrope, along with later film mediums. Source.

The 19th century was an era of vision, the exploration of it, the evolution of it, and the play of it. Within the century we see the concepts of vision evolve, from the simple exploration of tricks of the eye to the questioning of the credibility of it, alongside it we see these optical toys appearing as exploration of the concepts. The kaleidoscope appears in the early 19th century as an exploration of the interaction of the eye and light. The thaumatrope flips as a exploration of an illusionary sticking image of the eye. The phenakistoscope spins to look at how the interaction of the eye and light can create illusions of movement. The stereoscope appears as another exploration of an illusion the eye creates, being used to explore other regions and concepts. Finally, the Zoetrope and the Praxinoscope make their way in, becoming early concepts of animation by building off the concepts of the phenakistoscope, and enhancing the effect with more slits and mirrors.

While these toys may seem laughably simplistic to us, there is a reason things like yoyos, balls, and dolls are still so amazingly popular along with these very optical toys being recreated and sold. There is a joy in simplicity, there is joy exploring the human eye.

Farman, Jason. “The Forgotten Kaleidoscope Craze in Victorian England”. Atlas Obscura, November 9th, 2015. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-kaleidoscope-craze-in-victorian-england

Greenslade, Thomas B. “Praxinoscopes”. Instruments for Natural Philosophy, Keyton College. http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Optical_Recreations/Praxinoscopes/Praxinoscopes.html

Gunning, Tom. “Hand and Eye: Excavating a New Technology of the Image in the Victorian Era” Victorian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 3, Indiana University Press, Spring 2012. Pgs. 499-501, 513.

Herbert, Stephen. “The Thaumatrope Revisited; or: "a round about way to turn'm green". The Wheel of Life, https://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/thaumatropeTEXT1.htm

Jacob, Carol. “Tate Painting and the Art of Stereoscopic Photography”. ‘Poor man’s picture gallery’: Victorian Art and Stereoscopic”. Tate, https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-poor-mans-picture-gallery-victorian-art-and-stereoscopic/essay

Kamar, Julie. “The Wheel Of The Devil - The History Of The Zoetrope From Ancient China To Pixar”. June 1st, 2012. Thalo, https://www.thalo.com/articles/view/343/the_wheel_of_the_devil_the_history_of_the

Thompson, Clive. “Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality”. Smithsonian Magazine, October 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/sterographs-original-virtual-reality-180964771/

“A Short History of the Phenakistoscope” June 28, 2014. Juxtapoz: Art & Culture, https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/news/short-history-of-the-phenakistoscope/

“Phenakistoscopes (1833)”. The Public Domain Review, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phenakistoscopes-1833

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BOOK REVIEW: While You Were Reading by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus

After ruining her best friend's nuptials, Bea relocates to the other side of the country in search of a fresh start, including meeting new people, living life to the fullest and finally pulling off balayage.

But after a few months, life is more stagnant than ever. Bea’s job is dead-end. Her romantic life? Non-existent. And her only friends are her books, her barista and her cleaning lady.

Title: While You Were Reading

Authors: Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus

Published by: Simon and Schuster

Publication Date: 01/07/19

Australian RRP: $24.99

Finished Cover: *click*

Genres: Romance, contemporary,

Pages: 400

Format: ARC

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis:

Words are messy. Love is messier.

A hilarious, insightful new novel from the creators of Books on the Rail

Meet Beatrix Babbage – 29-year-old dog-earer of books and accidental destroyer of weddings.

But after a few months, life is more stagnant than ever. Bea’s job is dead-end. Her romantic life? Non-existent. And her only friends are her books, her barista and her cleaning lady.

Then Bea stumbles across a second-hand novel, inscribed with notes. Besotted with the poetic inscriptions, Bea is determined to find the author ... and along the way, she finds herself entangled in one hell of a love quadrangle.

Funny, poignant and insightful, While You Were Reading reveals that there’s no such thing as perfection, the value of true friendship and, most importantly, the power of not living in fiction, but still reading it … Often.

A love story for book lovers that celebrates much more than romance.

Review:

While You Were Reading is the perfect book for bibliophiles and lovers of romance. This book left me with a big smile on my face; I really enjoyed it. While You Were Reading is a love letter to book lovers; filled with book references, bookstagram, and a literary pub crawl.

Beatrix Babbage was a funny and charming character to follow. I loved the Luke/Lorelai (Gilmore Girls) vibe between Bea and Dino. Dino is the grumpy, kind-hearted barista, who leaves quotes on coffee cups, and writes poetry. While there is a bit of a love triangle/quadrangle going on, I enjoyed seeing the effect of each of the relationships in Bea's life. While You Were Reading is set in Melbourne and really showcases the highs and lows of living in the city.

Overall, If you are looking for a fun, light-hearted contemporary romance, I recommend picking up While You Were Reading!

Thank you to Simon and Schuster Australia for letting me be part of the While You Were Reading blog tour, and for sending me a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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Recently we have been reorganizing our LThMath Book Club. The whole idea behind it is to read and discuss books with other people. We are happy that the Goodreads Club grew to 272 people. Recently people have been asking if we can use other platforms for the Book Club as well. Therefor, we have created a Facebook Group with the same idea as the Goodreads one. After the first 2 months we have reached 226 members in the group and we have some really great book recommendations. Hope you all enjoy the idea.

Due to this change, we cannot do just a Goodreads poll for the bi-monthly book. Therefor, we decided to do a survey (created using Google forms). In this way more people can vote for the book. If you want to vote, you need to do it HERE.

“The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer” by Sydney Padua

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime—for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible.

“The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography” by Simon Singh

Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.

Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world’s most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.

“Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More” by Matt Parker

In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he takes us on a grand tour, from four dimensional shapes, knot theory, the mysteries of prime numbers, optimization algorithms, and the math behind barcodes and iPhone screens to the different kinds of infinity―and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entice us to take pleasure in mathematics at all levels. Parker invites us to relearn much of what baffled us in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.

“A Beautiful Mind” by Sylvia Nasar

Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash’s Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print.

We are very interested in this book due to the movie “A Beautiful Mind”. It is an incredible, emotional and interesting movie about the life of John Nash. If this book was chosen, we believe it would be a great idea to watch the movie after we read the book. What do you think?

“Lost in Math: How Beauty Leards Physics Astray” by Sabine Hossenfelder

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these “too good to not be true” theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.

Looking at the general description, this sounds more like a book about physics but we are still interested to see how the author deals with the bondary between mathematics and physics. Also, this book was released in 2018.

“How Long is a Piece of String? More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life” by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham

In this book, you will find that many intriguing everyday questions have mathematical answers. Discover the astonishing 37% rule for blind dates, the avoidance tactics of the gentleman’s urinal, and some extraordinary scams that have been devised to get rich quick. Also included are the origins of the seven-day week and the seven-note scale, an explanation of why underdogs win, clever techniques for detecting fraud, and the reason why epidemics sweep across a nation and disappear just as quickly. Whatever your mathematical ability, this fun, thought-provoking book will illuminate the ways in which math underlies so much in our everyday lives.

“A Brief History of Infinity” by Brian Clegg

Infinity is a concept that fascinates everyone from a seven-year-old child to a maths professor. An exploration of the most mind-boggling feature of maths and physics, this work examines amazing paradoxes and looks at many features of this fascinating concept.

After reading “Beyond Infinity” by Eugenia Cheng, this book might feel like a double kill especially if you feel like you need a break from infinity. On the other hand, we find the concept so mesmerizing that we just want to find out more about it.

“Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant” by Julian Havil

Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, π, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery. In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through logarithms and the harmonic series, the two defining elements of gamma, toward the first account of gamma’s place in mathematics. Gamma takes us through countries, centuries, lives, and works, unfolding along the way the stories of some remarkable mathematics from some remarkable mathematicians.

“Magical MAthematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks” by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham

Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks–and the profound mathematical ideas behind them–that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today’s mathematical knowledge. The book exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card Monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the oldest mathematical trick–and much more.

We have read another book by Persi Diaconis (“Ten Great Ideas about Chance”) and we thought we could give it a try to another of his books, this time more fun and less stickt. If you want to find out more about “Ten Great Ideas about Chance” and what I thought about it, you can check the reivew.

“Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprizing Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math” by Allex Bellos (also called: “Alex’s Adventures in Numberland”)

Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover fascinating stories of mathematical achievement, from the breakthroughs of Euclid, the greatest mathematician of all time, to the creations of the Zen master of origami, one of the hottest areas of mathematical work today. Throughout, the journey is enhanced with a wealth of intriguing illustrations, such as of the clever puzzles known as tangrams and the crochet creation of an American math professor who suddenly realized one day that she could knit a representation of higher dimensional space that no one had been able to visualize. Whether writing about how algebra solved Swedish traffic problems, visiting the Mental Calculation World Cup to disclose the secrets of lightning calculation, or exploring the links between pineapples and beautiful teeth, Bellos is a wonderfully engaging guide who never fails to delight even as he edifies. “Here’s Looking at Euclid “is a rare gem that brings the beauty of math to life.

We hope this helped you decide what book you would like to read in August – September with us. Hope you liked this post. Have a great day. You can find us on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram. We will try to post there as often as possible.

October – November Book Choice Recently we have been reorganizing our LThMath Book Club. The whole idea behind it is to read and discuss books with other people.

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Jack Nicholson in the Snow • Albert Watson • 1981

I found this photo of Jack Nicholson by Albert Watson. It’s from 1981.

Albert Watson is Scottish fashion and celebrity photographer based in NYC.

Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson...The photo shows Jack sitting outside in the snow, in Aspen Co. Obviously, theidea behind the photo is to ironically reference the end of Stanley Kubrick’s, Shining (1980). At the end of that film, the writer Jack Torrance is seen, frozen to death, in the garden of the hotel he has been looking after.

Actually, I am more interested in Jack’s jacket.

One of the great things about a proper tweed jacket is that it keeps the weather out. I have a good thick Norfolk jacket on which, if I go out in a blizzard, the snow just sits on the front...I have arrived at my destination covered in snow.

I have quite a few jackets, but my best are heavyweight tweeds.

I guess that I have always been interested in Jack’s ability to wear how clothes well. I first noticed him in Polanski’s, Chinatown (1974), where he wears a Hollywood style action-back sports suit. Then in the remake of, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).

I’ve mentioned Jack’s jackets before, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/154473557670/the-modern-dandy-walt-disney-usa-mid20c

and, about ten years ago, I wrote a few pieces for The Guardian about film and visual language...

I wrote about suits and jackets in relation to Hichcock’s, North by Northwest (1959) and The Thirty-Nine Steos (1935)...

Here’s what I wrote

The Film

I make no apologies for returning, this week, to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. North by Northwest (NxNW) is a suspense thriller from 1959, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The film is one of a group, directed by Hitchcock, which are recognised as the greatest from his long and distinguished career. These films, from Hitchcock’s American period, explore various established themes such as fear, identity, and desire.

Hitchcock was, as always, sensitive to the zeitgeist of popular culture. Accordingly and especially in America, these themes were drawn out, increasingly explicitly, in relation to the psychoanalytical ideas of Sigmund Freud. These ideas had become more widely known in America during the 1950s.

Freud’s ideas were recognised as convenient and powerful tools for describing and explaining the underlying motivations of modern society. This was especially the case in relation to the rapidly developing consumer culture of the post-WW2 economic boom in America. Anxiety and desire were installed, by the advertising industry, as the main drivers of American consumer society.

It was entirely appropriate that, in these circumstances, the hero of NxNW, Roger Thornhill, should be a smart, smooth, cynical, and clever advertising executive.

The Titles...

The visual identity of the film is established, from the very beginning, by the animated typography of the title sequence by Saul Bass. The sequence begins with lines, drawn at right-angles and seen in perspective. The lines become crossed-hairs, subliminally referring to guns and deadly precision. Eventually, these lines build up to create a grid. Typographic elements begin to enter the frame and build the title. Eventually, the grid becomes understood as the metal and glass façade of a modern office block. The film begins with shots of busy commuters on the pavements below.

It’s all a bit panoptic and relentless.

The office block is entirely nondescript. It could easily be the headquarters of Thornhill’s creative agency. Alternatively, the smoked-glass and steel could provide the bureaucratic headquarters of some state-sponsored administration. The moral-ambiguities of bureaucratic control lie at the heart of this story.

The Story

At one level, the story of NxNW is a straightforward thriller based on a case of mistaken identity and relentless pursuit. In the context of the 1950s in America, it was natural for this to happen against a backdrop of cold-war espionage, national security issues and administrative excess.

In fact, notwithstanding these contemporary elements, the film is a pretty straight re-run of an earlier Hitchcock classic, The 39 Steps (1935). Hitchcock’s film, in turn, was a dramatisation of John Buchan’s famous adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps.

In Buchan’s story, the issue of mistaken identity is played out against a background of great-power espionage. The police and British secret-service mistakenly identify Richard Hannay as a murder suspect. Hannay flees to Scotland and uses his bush-craft skills to evade capture. Eventually, Hannay exposes a fiendish plot and saves the day.

The Suit – Thornproof or Thornhill

It’s worth noting that the protagonists of both Hitchcock’s films, Thornhill and Hannay, remain remarkably well dressed throughout their travails.

The Scottish setting of Buchan’s adventure, provides a suitable background for thorn-proof shooting tweeds. Hannay’s previous adventures, in the South African Veldt, have equipped him with a wealth of bush-craft. The heavy-weight tweed suit provides a perfect signifier of old school and outdoor hunter-gatherer skills. Hannay is, accordingly, immediately identified as both brave and practical.

The tweeds allow him to remain hidden from both the police and his enemies. The police attempt to sweep him from the moors. His enemies, a band of enemy spies, make use of mechanical advantage and attempt to spot him from the air.

Thornhill’s suit is an American lightweight two-piece. The Thornhill suit is terrific and may be understood as a prototype of the man-about-town style. This became the default setting for the British heroes of the 1960s: Bond, Steed, and Simon Templar amongst them.

Thornhill’s suit is a lounge suit made in grey lightweight cloth. It’s cut so as to provide a contemporary silhouette for Thornhill. The American style of tailoring featured sharp shoulders and a longer jacket with a draped look. In contrast, the English tailoring style created a more closely fitted and sculpted jacket. The grey colour immediately distinguishes Thornhill as creative and daring. Everyone else’s suits are boringly and conformingly dark.

So, the semiotics of the lightweight suit describe someone who is creative and who works in a modern air-conditioned office: a member of the executive class. All of these things identify Thornhill as a man who will be ill-used to the world beyond the city. Furthermore, as the adventure unfolds, it becomes clear that the arbitrary contents of Thornhill’s pockets contain all the tools available to him. Matches, hanky, pencil, newspaper clipping, loose change and wallet are all that he has. Thornhill’s clever use of this detritus shows dexterity and cunning.

For Hitchcock’s purposes, the suit identifies Thornhill in material, practical and psychological terms.

The Chase

The relentless pursuit of Thornhill reaches a dramatic climax when a crop-dusting aeroplane is used to chase him across the prairie flatlands of the mid-west. The use of the aeroplane as an observational platform provides a powerful and frightening example of the observational potential of technology. It’s obvious that, in the context of the 1950s, this refers to a general and subliminal cold-war anxiety about spy planes and inter-continental ballistic missiles.

The aeroplane is fast and agile. The speed and height give the observers an enormous advantage. Escape seems impossible. The visual superiority implicit through aerial observation is a military manifestation of the panoptic tradition of control.

The panoptic was conceptualised by Jeremy Bentham at the end of the 18C. Its first manifestation was as a prison design. This was so arranged to allow a single observational position to view the entire precincts of the prison. The association between control, power and observation was further entrenched through the pioneering work of Charles Babbage in industrial organisation and management. Babbage understood that the specialisation of labour, manufacturing, output and quality-control were all factors that, in the industrial context, were enforced through observation. Later, these ideas became the basis for Frederick Taylor’s theory of scientific management.

More recently, the panoptic has been theorised by Paul Virilio as a technology of military observation, destruction and cinema. The association between the observational control of the bureaucratic administration of liberal democracy is now widely accepted. Accordingly, the political struggle is understood, whatever the prevailing rhetoric, as an domestic battle between liberty and the apparatus of the democratic State.

The Grid

At this point, it worth returning to the title sequence and its grid.

The grid is elaborated as an intrinsic part of the sequence designed by Bass. It’s only at the end of the sequence that we understand the reference to office blocks, bureaucracy and capital. The ambiguity of the sequence means that, in its earliest stages, we are encouraged to consider various other possibilities.

Of course the title grid, with its reference to architectural organisation, is primarily a symbol of rationalism. In addition, the kinetic typography of the title reminds us of the grid as an abstraction of knowledge by reference to the letterpress forms and typesetting of printing. Somewhere in there, and as stated above, is a subliminal reference to maps, reconnaissance, observation and political control.

So, the title sequence and its grid provide a powerful symbol of the fragile balance, in democratic politics, between the power of the State and the liberty of the individual.

In the context of mid-century paranoia, especially in America, this was a film about cold-war threats and about the dangers of bureaucratic miss-identification and the erosion of constitutional rights.

I posted before about Hitchcock’s, Thirty-Nine Steps, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/105615335175/alfred-hitchcock-speeds-up-the-thirty-nine-steps

and about sports suits, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/111658632070/speed-and-suiting-daks-the-modern-sports-suit

and jackets, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/81379275426/how-to-wear-a-jacket

and patterns, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/129847540770/simpsons-of-piccadilly-sports-jacket

I’ve also written about shoes, here

http://paulrennie.rennart.co.uk/post/91450915275/katharine-hepburns-wedge-heels-speed-and-desire

Obviously. I’ve been thinking about jackets because I’ve just been given a lovely Dunn & Co tweed Jacket...

This one is lovely, the weight of the Harris tweed is good and the pockets are sloped and have good wide flaps. The buttons are of the traditional sort, and made of leather. It’s all good.

I don’t remember seeing anything like this in their stores...

The jacket reminds me of the famous sports coat made for Cary Grant by Kilgour, sporting tailors of Savile Row...

Here’s the history...

Kilgour & French. Founded in 1882 as T & F French in Piccadilly, in 1923 French merged with existing Savile Row tailor A.H. Kilgour to form Kilgour & French. In 1925, Fred and Louis Stanbury joined the firm, and in 1937 the business changed its name to Kilgour, French and Stanbury. In 2003, the business became Kilgour. In 2013, Fung Group acquired Kilgour from JMH Lifestyle.At present, Carlo Brandelli is the Creative Director.

By a marvellous co-incidence, I remembered that Albert Watson had also taken some pictures of Alfred Hitchcock...

See how it all connects...

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SAIL 2017 - Day 3 McDougall + McConaghy - Moth Worlds 2017 - Malcesine, Lake Garda - ITALY

28 luglio 2017 - The early morning Peler from the North provided contrasting fortunes for the fleet of 220 Moths racing day 3 of the McDougall + McConaghy Moth Worlds 2017 hosted by Fraglia Vela Malcesine. After a lunchtime break to repair boats and refuel with more pasta, all fleets were sent back out for a much more sedate afternoon of racing, but again the Garda wind gods had other ideas. By 1600hrs the weak afternoon breeze shut down for the day determining the all important Gold, Silver and Bronze fleets for the Final series. The Green and Blue fleets were sent out early for a 0830 hrs start but a number of competitors stayed ashore to make a late judgement as to whether to sit out the first race of the day. The Blue fleet was sailing the Southernmost course off the picturesque medieval city of Malcesine. However, just the downwind dash to the race course proved too much for many. The Peler was honking a good 20 - 25 knots with some steep waves. After about an hour the PRO got racing started but only about 16 boats got off on time. Some others joined shortly after to complete one lap and get a score on the board. For the second race of the day, race 4 of the event, the breeze did soften into the teens but the conditions were still gnarly and difficult for the club level sailors. Paul Goodison (GBR) took up from where he left off yesterday adding another two wins to keep a perfect scoreline. He was pushed hard but never really threatened by another Olympic medallist from GBR, Simon Hiscocks, who finished with two excellent seconds. Tom Offer from Rock Sailing Club in the UK was also rewarded for his persistence adding a 3,4 to his score. There were good performances for some of the master category sailors, Americas Cup team coach, Philippe Presti (FRA) finished the tough first race and took 5th in the second. Another Americas Cup sailor, Francesco Bruni (ITA) got round the course finishing 5th in the first race. The Green fleet set up at the Northern course which is where the lake is at its narrowest with the mountains either side. The breeze was similar here with 20 - 25 knots and with nasty steep waves. A number of mothies reported boat speeds in the early thirties (knots), recorded on their instruments. This group was randomly loaded with rock stars and proved to be the most dramatic of the day. Double world Moth champion and hot favourite, Nathan Outteridge (AUS) blitzed the first race but agonisingly suffered another major rig failure as his mast broke going at full speed. “It was pretty fresh out there this morning, we were getting mid 20’s and bigger gusts. At the top of our course, it was quite flat but lumpy at the bottom.” “I managed to win the first race but then in the second race I had a pitch pole in the middle of the bottom gate when I was in 2nd or 3rd, and snapped my mast, so that is two DNF’s in two days from two different things, so I am just running over the boat pretty closely now.” Another top contender and long term Moth worlds podium finisher, Scott Babbage (AUS) also suffered further breakages with a vang failure. Even the unflappable current king of sailing, Pete Burling (NZL) suffered a number of stacks as he appeared to be suffering from control issues downwind. Pete finished 8 and 11 for the day. Ben Paton (GBR) usually revels in the strong winds but having crossed the finish line in 3rd in the first race, he was leading race 2 when one of his ample biceps (arm muscles) caused him pain, forcing him to retire. The standout sailor from the Yellow group was another 49er Gold medallist and AC sailor, Iain ‘Goobs’ Jensen who found form and speed in abundance to card 2,1 from the morning session. “I was just getting around cleanly, the boat was working really nicely, it was definitely a survival day, there were big waves and gusts of up to 26 knots, so it was basically whoever didn’t swim was going to be in the top few.” “A few guys had new foils on and we're still just getting used to them, but I had the standard Exocet small foils on and they were going well. It was really good fun, awesome sailing, some guys who had the Velocitek’s on were recording top speeds of 32 knots.” Also enjoying the heavy stuff was Arnaud Psarofaghis (SUI) scoring 6,2. Emma Spiers from Australia did well to finish both races upright with a respectable 19,23 and one of the lightest and smallest mothies, Josie Gliddon (GBR) finished 22,22 with her cut down rig proving a valuable asset. Around 25 boats finished both Green fleet races. The Yellow and Red fleets left the shore around 1100hrs, by which time the breeze was beginning to drop down to a more manageable 12 - 15 knots, fading to 10 or less for their second race of the day. The waves had also dropped resulting in much less boat damage and capsizes. There were 44 finishers in the first race and 50 finishers in the second for the Red fleet on the Northernmost course. The race track looked a bit more one sided with the fleets sailing straight off the start line to hit the steep Western shoreline of the Lake before mixing it up with the local ferries scuttling up the coast, totally mind boggled by what was happening around them! At the front end former Moth world champion, Josh McKnight (AUS), sailing his own Moth design, shared top spot with Rob Greenhalgh (GBR) finishing with a 1,2 for the day. Franco Greggi who is one of 5 boats from Buenos Aires in Argentina, was one of the outstanding performances of the day in the Red fleet, mixing it up with the leaders with a 3,5. “It was a very difficult morning because you have to choose your mast and foils carefully, I chose the smallest foil I had and I am happy I did. My main idea was to start well where there were no boats and try to use my speed in order to get to the front. There are a lot of top sailors with a lot of speed so It was really good to be with the leaders. I am very happy I am in the top 30.” Another of the Corinthian sailors, Dave Hivey (GBR) continued his good form with a 7,3 to keep in the top group overall. The Yellow fleet was the last to start their races, sailing on the Southern course off Malcesine. By the time they started the Peler was all but gone and they raced in a much more sedate 10 - 15 knots with flatter water. Tom Slingsby (AUS) fired another bullet and a 7th to stay in the lead bunch overall. Fellow Australian Laser Gold medallist, Tom Burton finished 4,2 and a third Aussie, Harold Mighell from Sydney, finished 2nd, but with a bad second race finish of 26th. Corinthian, Rory Fitzpatrick, one of a flutter of mothies from Ireland finished with an excellent 7 and 1 in the morning session. The Yellow fleet was the first to be sent out for the afternoon session in a light 10 - 12 knots from the South and flat water however after a long wait the weather gods again foiled the race committee and racing had to be curtailed for the day. With 4 qualification races completed per group, sailors can discard their worst score. So the points table at the end of qualifying shows Paul Goodison (GBR) with a string of bullets followed closely by Tom Slingsby (AUS), with three wins and a discarded 7. Rob Greenhalgh (GBR) sits in 3rd, Iain Jensen (AUS) 4th and Josh Mcknight (AUS) 5th. Pete Burling (NZL) sits in 15th and due to damage Nathan Outteridge (AUS) is down in 35th. For the same reason, Scott Babbage (AUS) sits in 41. Some regular club mothies stack up in the top 20 which is a credit to them in such a high-class field as this. Annalise Murphy (IRL) is the top female competitor, easily qualifying in the Gold group. There is a cluster of women who will race against each other in the Silver fleet. Emma Spiers (AUS) 102, Wakaka Tabata (JPN) 108, Josie Gliddon (GBR) 113 and Emma Gravar (SWE) 114. Of the Masters, Jason Belben of Stokes Bay sits in an admirable 23rd, one place ahead of long time Moth campaigner Rob Gough from Tasmania, Australia. Phil Stevenson, the grand master of the fleet is comfortably in the Silver fleet in 133 spot. The two Italian Ferrighi brothers lead the Youth category (under 23yrs), Gian Marie qualifies in 18th and Stefano in 44th. The Final Series of racing begins tomorrow (Friday) for Gold, Silver and Bronze fleets with a first start scheduled for 1300hrs.

FROM http://www.navigamus.info/2017/07/day-3-mcdougall-mcconaghy-moth-worlds.html

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books 2017 so far

wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no.

Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler

Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz

The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie

The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Adaptation - Malinda Lo

The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg)

The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua

IQ - Joe Ide

The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert

Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell

Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)

Sum - David Eagleman

Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich

Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)

Selection Day - Aravind Adiga

The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale

Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja

Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Audition - Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen

Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside

Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor

Being A Beast - Charles Foster

The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin

Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

The Mistletoe Murder - PD James

The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton

Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown

Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson

The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez

The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth

There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe

Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke

His Bloody Project - Graham McRae

Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff

Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates

Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple

Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper

The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick

History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Inheritance - Malinda Lo

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre

Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older

Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Monstress - Marjorie Liu

This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin

The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)

Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse

Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester

A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler

A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale

A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin

Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies

Life's Work - Willie Parker

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

We Are Okay - Nina LaCour

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones

Time Travel - James Gleick

Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw

Words on the Move - John McWhorter

Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Teeth - Mary Otto

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

We The Animals - Justin Torres

Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

The Girl Before - JP Delaney

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Half-Bad - Sally Green

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis

Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Plucked - Rebecca Herzing

The Outsiders - SE Hinton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge

Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson

Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin

The Dry - Jane Harper

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund

See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg

Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore

Otherbound - Connie Duyvis

Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan

Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)

Bright Air Black - David Vann

Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin

Medusa - Michael Dibdin

Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen

A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume

My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul

Two Women of London - Emma Tennant

Stoner - John Williams

The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Oranges - John McPhee

Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran

The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse

The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed

The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz

Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin

End Games - Michael Dibdin

What If? - Randall Munroe

Taft 2012 - Jason Heller

Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

God's Philosophers - James Hannam

Ravished - Amanda Quick

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot

Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)

#books 2017 #as usual: i read some horrible stuff and some great stuff. mostly okay i would say.#'okay nonsense'#and other mottoes of this tumblr

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