What book are you reading now?

Finally reading Crime and Punishment. It's giving me a good idea of why Russian novelists like Dostoyevsky are considered the greatest ever. I'm enjoying it but I'm not sure that it's a style I'll actively search for more of.

I'm currently reading Tree of Ages by Sara C. Roethle. Really awesome book so far. It's so gripping and interesting, I have breaks and then I keep going straight back to it.

I love reading, but for some reason go through very fallow periods where (audiobooks aside) I jus don't, and can't seem to overcome the inertia. Then when I get going, I really do. Even then, there might then be a protracted intermission mid-book. 

I just finished one called Convenience Store Woman (which has an implied autistic dimension to its very likeable lead character), and my next book will be 'The John Nathan-Turner Production Diaries' - a forensic deep-dive into the literal day-to-day activities of Doctor Who's producer in the 1980s, pieced together from all sorts of paperwork in yellowing files still kept by the BBC. Right up my street, though I should try and read something concurrentky that's not so overtly connected to my special interest too. I'll probably die without an adequate grounding in the classics because my focus was so narrow. 

I missed that topic. I don't have space to unpack my books, I left all shelves at previous location, so it's many boxes

Among those I read recently, most of it it's sci-fi there is one or two I would recommend:

Lathe of Heaven by Ursula le Guin

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress 

Reading takes me a long time not always good with words But that won't stop me!

I'm currently reading a romantic fun book called I'm Still Standing by Colleen Coleman. It's really good. I like a good light-hearted book.

Awareness   by Anthony De Mellor       very similar to Zen/buddhism      it is a mysticism book actually very good wee book

Klara and the Sun. 

I am about half way through it

I'm currently reading 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking' by Susan Cain, it's very interesting.

 if i ever became rich i would have a herd of pet cows !  

Thanks! I like her too, she's curious and expressive. Cows were my best companion as a kid (i grew up on a farm).

I am fascinated by the whole question of Utopia, and in a book I mentioned here earlier, Utopia for Realists, his point was that by the standards of earlier times, we already have it, at least in relatively developed countries (like Scandinavia, I don't count either the UK or the States as being all that developed. Not after what has happened in each country after the last four years). 

Delicious food that can be obtained with ease, warm places to live in, cleanliness. Freedom basically from being cold, hungry and dirty. 

Then Basic Income was almost success introduced by the Nixon government no less, and it is being tried out in Germany now, has been experimented with in Norway. And what is interesting and totally counter intuitive is that most people don't just spend it all on drink, drugs, or sit around doing nothing. They start investing in their educations! They start small businesses! They start planning for their futures! With the stress of worrying about how you can hope to survive gone, the threat of punishment removed for being poor, the ability to make good decisions is restored. 

So interesting........

So there are places that appear to be doing something right, at least. And perhaps removing many of the causes of inequality might help keep.the work.on the apple at bay that much more. 

The other problem is that poo happens. In the past there has been climate change not of our making, but even now there are still rapacious climate change deniers. Volcanoes erupt, creating long volcanic winters, meteorites strike. Will there be the ingenuity in the future to handle these?

I don't think that autism confers niceness necessarily either, humans are only 98% removed from chimpanzees after all. 

More recently I did read something far more sobering, by a Fabian Scheidler. He sees us all as being trapped in a malignant machine of power that is basically holding the whole lot of us to ransom.

i like ur cow

Yeah, there's as much variance in being nice and being nasty, selfish, whatever amongst ASs as NTs. The person who's been most relentlessy mean to me had an autism diagnosis. And the person who's been most caring of me has one too.

There seems to be particular ways of being nice/kind or nasty/selfish in the two brain types that's different, but I'm not sure utopia is made up of ASs. Maybe if you just take the nice ASs it could;>).

what ????      autistics can be incredibly selfish/ self centred to the point of distruction. 

Autistics vary in their thinking just like NTs do ......

.......... if u want to find out put my autistic nephew in charge and everyone will be forced to fly drones with him everyday for an hour, followed by one hour building Model trains, then One hour of Star Wars lego.

Everyone with be eating chips with Coke forever !  

everyone run      

feel free to poo poo me   

I'm half way through David Attenboroughs witness statement and it occurs to me, that although we need some kind of utopia to survive and help the planet to survive again...it is based on removing greed and distributing wealth evenly and in the pursuit of regaining balance, rather than for personal gain.

In that way it struck me that it would appear to suit the autistic way of thinking more than the neurotypical

I am currently reading books by a guy called Anthony Cummins who is an English author and Japanese mid evil warfare historian and also a world leading authority in ninja history and warfare and he's the founder of the ninjutsu research team...!!

I am currently reading a book known as in search of the ninja by him

The book of ninja

The secret traditions of the shinobi

The Iga and koga ninja Scrolls

I am currently reading Monty Don's book about his dog Nigel, who sadly passed away recently.

Im reading a Horrible science book

That sounds really interesting actually. How are you finding it?

At the moment I have a few books. War and peace, history of witch craft (it basically tells you about the superstitions and trials of the time, a 1940s book which the name's escaped me, the story is about a man who buys a farm

It is set in Alaska in the '70s, but it is mainly about a thirteen years old girl, Leni, and her dysfunctional family. Her father has problems going back to a normal life after having been to Vietnam and he drags his wife and daughter to Alaska hoping for a new beginning. I really like it so far.