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Reading Wednesday
Dec. 23rd, 2020 09:39 amMy good dudes, it's Wednesday! Almost forgot because time has no meaning.
Just finished: Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor. I really enjoyed this one. It's about three kids living on a reserve on Otter Lake who befriend a weird, neglected little girl. The mom of one of the kids, a free-spirited hippie type, installs a chalkboard in their kitchen and calls it the Everything Wall, inviting the local children to draw on it. The girl, Danielle, draws a horse that's looks like unnervingly like it's about to come to life. Years later, one of the boys, now a cop in Toronto, encounters the Horse as a piece of graffiti, and a homeless man who can see people's inner truths. It's a lyrical, quirky fairy tale with interesting layers to its mysteries.
Currently reading: Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried To Take Over the Money by David Gerard. I loved David's first book, Attack Of the 50-Foot Blockchain, and in this one, he continues his important and often hilarious work of demystifying libertarian Silicon Valley asshattery around cryptocurrency. Libra Shrugged is about Facebook's attempt to create its own version of Bitcoin, a story I somehow managed to completely miss when it was happening. Anyway, it's a great read full of schadenfreude and I envision a chorus of Oompa Loompas to emerge at the end of each chapter to sing about why you shouldn't get too greedy when you already own the biggest social network in the world.
Just finished: Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor. I really enjoyed this one. It's about three kids living on a reserve on Otter Lake who befriend a weird, neglected little girl. The mom of one of the kids, a free-spirited hippie type, installs a chalkboard in their kitchen and calls it the Everything Wall, inviting the local children to draw on it. The girl, Danielle, draws a horse that's looks like unnervingly like it's about to come to life. Years later, one of the boys, now a cop in Toronto, encounters the Horse as a piece of graffiti, and a homeless man who can see people's inner truths. It's a lyrical, quirky fairy tale with interesting layers to its mysteries.
Currently reading: Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried To Take Over the Money by David Gerard. I loved David's first book, Attack Of the 50-Foot Blockchain, and in this one, he continues his important and often hilarious work of demystifying libertarian Silicon Valley asshattery around cryptocurrency. Libra Shrugged is about Facebook's attempt to create its own version of Bitcoin, a story I somehow managed to completely miss when it was happening. Anyway, it's a great read full of schadenfreude and I envision a chorus of Oompa Loompas to emerge at the end of each chapter to sing about why you shouldn't get too greedy when you already own the biggest social network in the world.
