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Paul Matthews

paulusm@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years, 6 months ago

SF, Literature. Recently found solar punk. Lover of J G Ballard, Virginia Woolf. Nonfiction on a range of topics including brain science and lit. theory.

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Paul Matthews's books

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N. Katherine Hayles: Unthought (Paperback, 2017, University of Chicago Press)
Richard Paul Russo: Ship of fools (EBook, 2002, Ace Books)
Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You (Paperback, 2015, Penguin Books)

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Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover, 2022, Alfred A. Knopf)
Hermann Hesse: Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (Paperback, 2019, Independently published, Independently Published)
Margaret Atwood: Old Babes in the Wood (2023, Diversified Publishing, Random House Large Print)

Stopped reading

Douglas R. Hofstadter: I Am a Strange Loop (2007, Basic Books)
Ann Patchett: This is the story of a happy marriage (2013, Harper Collins, Inc.)

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reviewed Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks: Awakenings (1983, Penguin Publishing Group)

The classic account of survivors of the encephalitic lethargica and their return to the world …

Touching, surprising and refreshingly "qualitative"

A wonderful book, with the emphasis placed on documenting the life histories, symptoms and recovery of distinct patients - Sacks treats their case studies with great humanity and empathy.

replied to Xavier Ashe's status

@xavier@bookwyrm.tech Yeah, I agree a bit of a move from the realistic to the idealistic! I think it would be great for students to read though, to understand more about how dev, ops and sec work (or don't work) together!