literature

alex 30th September 2024 at 11:00am

Books are nice. I like books, libraries, bookshelves, bookstores, books in pictures, books in hands, books in public spaces. Consider me ailed with tsundoku. There's definitely a book for everyone and I've found great joy in the lending and receiving of books; sometimes, I might read just to convey — and books are changing: this is also a reaction to that. (I am not oblivious to this page consisting mostly of non-fiction, technical, or self-help literature — maybe this will improve with time).

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Jorge Luis Borges

A Sound Mind
Paul Morley
Aprendendo a viver
Clarice Lispector
Babel
Gaston Dorren
Børnehistorier
Peter Bichsel
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish
The Importance of Being Educable
Leslie Valiant
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
As causas do atraso Português
Nuno Palma
Because Internet
Gretchen McCulloch
Carta a D.
André Gorz
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
O mapa e o território
Michel Houellebecq
Portugal: A Revolução Impossível
Phil Mailer
Se numa noite de inverno um viajante
Italo Calvino
Serotonina
Michel Houllebecq
Sobre a Leitura
Marcel Proust
An Introduction to Danish Culture
Norman Berdichevsky
Ecology of Wisdom
Arne Næss
Grokking Simplicity
Eric Normand
How To Design Programs
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
Stay True
Hua Hsu
Strangers To Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Phillips Feynman
The Boy Who Could Change the World
Aaron Swartz
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr