Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

[cstone]

Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century by Cathy N. Davidson

http://www.amazon.com/Now-You-See-Te.../dp/014312126X

An interesting read focusing on attention and learning. Davidson writes about how much of our early learning is based on neuron shearing and the cultural bias built into the connections formed in early childhood. Essentially, what we learn requires us to exclude the learning of other things based on the environment we find ourselves. I am fascinated by the mirror neurons and the concept that neurons in our brains fire in the same patterns whether we are doing a thing or we are watching someone else do the thing. Both the doing and the watching someone else do something help reinforce the neural connections and affect learning. It apparently is the basis for empathetic instruction and is very rare, only noted in humans and possibly Killer Whales.

[Slapps74]

Just finished "Going Home" by A.America. Not as well written as One Second After but I still picked up the second book in the series, Surviving Home this afternoon.

[buffalobo]

Just finished "Going Home" by A.America. Not as well written as One Second After but I still picked up the second book in the series, Surviving Home this afternoon.

Good series. Waiting for book 5 to release 12/31.

[Irving]

Finished the second book in the King Killer series, "A Wise Man's Fear." It is the sequel to Name of the Wind. Good book, I'd say even better than the first. Can't wait for the last book to come out.

[Slapps74]

Good series. Waiting for book 5 to release 12/31.

Didnt know there was a new one comming out. Looks like I have some more reading to get done before 12/31! Finished Surving Home about 10 minutes ago and I will be getting the next one tomorrow.

[buffalobo]

Finished the second book in the King Killer series, "A Wise Man's Fear." It is the sequel to Name of the Wind. Good book, I'd say even better than the first. Can't wait for the last book to come out.

I like multiple book series. How about a synopsis.

[buffalobo]

Didnt know there was a new one comming out. Looks like I have some more reading to get done before 12/31! Finished Surving Home about 10 minutes ago and I will be getting the next one tomorrow.

It has been entertaining and I like seeing different authors take on day to day "life" after collapse.

[Irving]

Hmmm, I'm not great at describing books/movies without saying too much. So here is a description I found online!

So begins the tale of Kvothe—from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But The Name of the Wind is so much more—for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend.

[buffalobo]

Hmmm, I'm not great at describing books/movies without saying too much. So here is a description I found online!

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Works for me.

I know what you mean. I'm a reader cause writing is too hard.

[Bitter Clinger]

I'm reading the vampire earth series now. I was looking for a good post alien invasion book and came across this, pretty good. They are short, around 200 pages. They are not the vampires you are thinking of. They are aliens. Good, yet light, read.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/41449-vampire-earth