A few recent reads that I recommend: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright. Both book and mini-series offer a well-documented retelling of the events leading to 9/11. Life on The Edge: The Coming Age of Quantum Biology, by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili. If you are interested in the quantum world, this is a well-written book that makes the case for and covers the controversy that quantum effects, like entanglement, play a role in biology. The Pursuit of William Abbey, by Claire North, is a very well-written, thoughtful look at the human condition that uses the artifice of truth-tellers. Finally, I am reading Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel, the latest book from Neal Stephenson that includes characters from REAMDE. If you are not familiar with Stephenson, I believe he is the most scientifically and technologically savvy person writing today. Cryptonomicon is a great read and the Baroque Cycle is an incredibly dense look at the birth of modern science. If you can wade through all the books in the cycle, you are a more avid reader than I.
Speaking of Books – March 2020
