CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation 1945-2016 by Rodric Brathwaite.

I love the smell of fallout in the morning, it smells of... victory. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Taming the Infinite:the story of maths from the first numbers to chaos theory" by Ian Stewart. Remaindered at £2.99 reduced to £1.49.

Well there's a thing: completely forgotten how to get the roots of a quadratic, and every trig identity has vanished without trace, not that there's been much call for them over the last half century other than two technical tests at Sony, one about 45 years ago, the other about 35 years ago, neither of which came to anything, the third attempt came to something after I'd started contracting elsewhere, so working for them for half the amount of money held few attractions really.

This will either take a very long time to get through or, more likely by far, will be off to Oxfam unread once I take the remainder stickers off it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A northern wind: Britain 1962 - 1965" by David Kynaston. Set exactly midway between Clement Atlee and Margaret "The Great She Elephantine Milksnatching Bitch" Thatcher. One who created the NHS and assorted atomic bombs and the other who sold off everything that wasn't nailed down to make her friends richer.
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Done: off back to Oxfam with it. He writes a good book it must be said: just don't drop them on your foot.. So that's "Austerity (45-51)", "Family (51-57) ", "Modernity (57-62)" and "Northern Wind (62-65)" done & dusted. Must be a good foot of books in that selection.

Next: "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman!: adventures of a curious character" by R. P. Feynman.