@nimble_newt Meditations by emporer Marcus Aurelius

Not to interject, but if I could only recommend one book, it would be that

<@411687472829956098> I'll check our book catalog and see if we have it already.
Roman stuff is definitely up my alley. I have tons of it that I haven't read yet. My backlog is insane.

I came from the opposite of a formaly educated family. I'm the first person on either side of the family to go to college. Wew laddd

I've been deep diving into medical ethics for a while.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power by Daron Acemoglu is great @nimble_newt

The history is staggering.
Also <@411687472829956098> Throw all the good book recs at me.

Maybe I have a lower oppinion of the biases of educated folk because of that...

@UnScottable does it address the habitual pattern of self-described empires being prone to collapse from the very center of authority?

also a fun short book to read, "how to lie with statistics"

@ShardS Congrats. On Going to college can be a huge step and depending on what you study no easy feat.

Econ/criminal justice dual bachelors

well i havent finished the book yet, but the first couple chapters explain why the governments in South America are so different from the governments in north america

I go to law school next year

and it really breaks down exactly why we are so close, yet so different

@ShardS Half of my family (mums side) is working class and have never been to uni. My dad's side is very formally educated (Think MIT, Oxford, Harvard). I think it gives me a good balance

A worthwhile analysis by the sounds of it

My balance is not being dum

I can really see both perspectives because my family is a blue collar/white collar hybrid

I have read a very small portion of my grandfathers library

Also @ShardS Thumbs up on Law School

I start my MD/PhD soon

Send thoughts and prayers

Books are just so easy to collect and keep for posterity

Being as I live in california and he lived in Idaho distance made it largely difficult to get through any of his books

I have two separate friend groups cause my pre college/work friends don't get along with my school friends

who the fuck's gonna look at a hard drive and have fond memories?

Ive read all his tom clancy books, clancy and RR tolkien were grandfathers favorite fiction authors so I read them pretty religiously

As to his non fiction that is a stack higher than my house and I havent been up there since a couple years after he passed

Been busy with work

Dad gave me a really nice edition of the hobbit with a personal foreword from himself to me on the inside cover

Nice

that makes me smile

and all my books are in storage in Oregon

Books are severely underrated these days

Ever read Shade's Children?

I have not

neither has anyone on the planet but me

I have a book on the spanish american war that has vellum maps in it

fucking disgustingly underrated Garth Nix novel

Im afraid to touch it tbh