by Furry Girl
04.03.12
Thank you very much to the awesome people who sent me gifts from my Amazon wishlist: Raikin, Stella Maris, AP, BO, and CL! (Please make sure include your email address in the "gift comments" field on Amazon so I can send you a thank you.)
My new books:
* The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
* Not Bad For A Human an autobiography by Lance Henriksen, with Joseph Maddrey
* The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins
* Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles J. Wheelan
* Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus Du Sautoy
* Whores and Other Feminists by Jill Nagle
* Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
* The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
* Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
* Taste the Flavors (The Erotic Web) by Stella Maris (sent to me by the author, a fan of my sites.)
And who could resist the Breaking Bad chucks? MF sent them as a birthday present a while ago.
If you buy any of these above-mentioned books through their Amazon affiliate links, a portion of the price goes to SWAAY.
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Just a FYI - the author of the Gandhi book on your list is my highly-religious, Army colonel uncle. Not someone you'd want to support, but considering there's plenty of people with good ideas and other batshit stuff, I won't particularly condemn it. I don't know much about the book, never read it or anything, but considering what I know of my uncle from a couple arguments over religion, I'd be a bit skeptical.
Comment by N — April 3, 2012 @ 1:16 pm
If I refused to read books written by the religious, I'd have a lot less to read. I'd always prefer a solid atheist-centric take on any subject, but your uncle is the leading anti-Gandhi political commentator, and I found him interesting when he was on Penn and Teller's Bullshit.
Comment by Furry Girl — April 3, 2012 @ 1:18 pm
Oh yeah, I know. I do recall my uncle saying he was an atheist (in what sense, I have no idea - possibly something like this: http://praxeology.net/unblog03-04.htm#02). I have far more issues with the army anyway.
Comment by N — April 3, 2012 @ 7:03 pm
Have you read (or do you want to read) volumes one and two of the history of sexuality? Just curious.
Comment by Timory — April 6, 2012 @ 10:26 am
I have volumes 1 and 2, but I haven't read them yet. They keep getting displaced in my hierarchy of books to read, so they're there.
Comment by Furry Girl — April 6, 2012 @ 10:41 am
What did you think about the first couple of volumes of 'History of Sexuality', because I couldn't really understand them. I'm not sure if it was the french to english translation, but the wording just didn't seem to make much sense.
Also, let me know how 'Better Angels of Our Nature Goes'. I'm mildly interested in reading it, but not sure.
Comment by gold — April 7, 2012 @ 12:42 am
Gold: See the comment above: "I have volumes 1 and 2, but I haven't read them yet. They keep getting displaced in my hierarchy of books to read, so they're there."
Comment by Furry Girl — May 6, 2012 @ 8:46 pm