Genius from
Russian artist Svetlana Petrova.
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| Grant Wood's American Gothic |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa |
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| Titian's Venus of Urbino |
I'm still meandering through
Jack McDevitt's 'Alex Benedict' series. A well-written blending of far-future science-fiction and detective-story. They're rather slow, but well-written and engaging; I don't know if I'll have the energy to get to number 6 (having just finished 3 - '
Seeker').
What else is on my Kindle app right now?
Mindbridge and
Slan (and '
The Devil's Eye').
My current non-virtual book is Francis Fukuyama's "
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution". Although I'm in the early sections I really can't praise this book highly enough. Non-ideological writing - ie without an agenda, scintillating prose style and super-intelligent analysis. If only journalistic pundits started from where this author leaves off we might be having grown up debates about politics and strategy and maybe getting things somewhat right.
