What are you reading? April 28, 2018

Here's what I am reading.  Feel free to comment with what you are reading.

• Started this week
• A re-re-read of Crypotomicon by Neal Stephenson. One of my favorite novels. My review shows why.  I am on p. 316
• Significant Figures by Ian Stewart. Brief biographies of famous mathematicians. I am on p. 43.
• In progress this week
• The Machiavellian Moment by J. G. A. Pocock. I am on p. 5. Multidisciplinary social science/history.  This is going to be a slow read. 
• Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham.  1000 years in 250 pages.  Seems like a very good introduction to the period. I am on page 43.
• This Idea is Brilliant edited by John Brockman.  Short essays on a wide range of ideas by experts. I am on p. 98.
• The Mathematical Theory of Bridge by Emile Borel and Cheron Andre. Probability and bridge. Lots of math. I am on page 121.
• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. Why the Enlightenment is still important, why life is still good.  I am on p. 55.
• A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. This is a very good history of the subject, well written and clear.  Kenny follows an unusual strategy in that he takes two approaches: He first covers each era in a more-or-less chronological order, then he looks at the big topics of that era in a systematic way.  I am on p. 595, in the Enlightenment.
• Scrivener for Dummies. I am on p. 186.  Scrivener is a tool for writers. 
• The Drawing of Trump and its Postponement by Fred L. Karpin.  I am on p. 43. A classic on the play of the hand in bridge. 
• Finished this week

• Dark Lanterns by Aaron Solomon. A mystery set in 16th century France.  Quite good! My review.