September 25, 2025: the autumn equinox -- the official end of summer and the beginning of winter -- September 21, 2025. The days are now growing shorter, the nights longer, until March, 2026.
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983.
The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why, Arthur Benjamin, c. 2015.
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The List
Winter reading program: 2025 - 2026
- Miscellaneous
- The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts, Scott Anderson (b. 1959); copyright, September 1, 2020 by Scott Anderson. Gift from granddaughter, Arianna.
- AI reading program (pulled forward from summer reading program, with additions):
- Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983.
- The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2015.
- The Story of Semiconductors, John Orton, c. 2004. Incredible resource. Link here.
- The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World, Simo Winchester, c. 2018.
- Chip War: The Fight For the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller, c. 2022.
- Movies / Hollywood
- The Big Goodbye, Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Sam Wasson, c. 2020. My copy, from ThriftBooks, after being withdrawn from the LeMont Public Library, Lemont, Illinois. Hard cover.
- Travel
- Coastal Oregon with Portland, Moon, no copyright / publishing date; probably 2025.
- Medicine
- Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy, c. 2023. Soft cover. Gift from granddaughter, Arianna.
- British
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings -- JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, c. 2015. Reading bits and pieces off and on at the library.
- The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England, Joanne Paul, c. 2023.
- really, really good history of how the Dudley family survived crisis after crisis, and became part of the royal family during Queen Elizabeth's reign; Shakespeare's era
- Journey to the Hebrides, Johnson and Boswell,
- Favorites
- Fear and Loathing, Part 1, Hunter S Thompson, letters
- I've read this or parts of it several times; one of my favorite books
- Louisville, KY; jail; USAF; Puerto Rico;
- Biography
- Lewis Carroll
- Hunter S Thompson, His Letters, The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume I; and, The Gonzo Letters, Volume II.
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder, updated and condensed (still 806 pages), c. 2009.
- Literature
- Tristram Shandy, Laurance Sterne,
- Religion
- The Jewish Annotated New Testament, NRSV, Amy-Jill Levine And Marc Zvi Brettler -- c. 2011, with new preface, 2016.
- Investing / Retirement
- Capitalism and Its Critics, A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI, John Cassidy, c. 2025. Incredibly good book.
- Complete Retirement Guidebook: How To Plan It, Live It, and Enjoy It -- The Wall Street Journal, Glenn Ruffenach & Kelly Greene, c. 2007.
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