Member: SthiraSukha

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Tagsliterature (254), science (98), no longer own (73), language (67), mathematics (59), would like to read (54), medicine (41), computer science (41), self-help (34), philosophy (33) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsW. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Brontë, Italo Calvino, Charles Dickens, Don DeLillo, Joseph Heller, Henry James, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Tim O'Brien, Salman Rushdie, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward O. Wilson (Shared favorites)

About meAnother bibliotaph.

I become unmoored without a novel to read. I've been diagnosed with adult ADHD, and sometimes finishing a book is a struggle, albeit a worthwhile struggle.

I am interested in, among other things, science and mathematics; contortionism, yoga, and dance (haven't quite finished my Yoga Alliance certification); literature; words and language (philologastery?); nature; and advocacy for reform movements, understanding privilege, the neuropsychosocial basis for prejudice and tribalism, the intersectionality of oppressions, and ethics in general, although my understanding certainly isn't as sophisticated as I might like.

I was a Ph.D. student in computer science. I hadn't been able to work or attend school until recently due to a rather recalcitrant seizure disorder, along with secondary panic disorder and a major depressive episode. However, I've kept myself as busy as I can in the interim, with reading and studying and the like. I'm now interested in transitioning to biochemistry or medicine, deo (?) volente. The details are complicated...but the brain tumor I have seems to be atypically worsening, unfortunately.

About my libraryI used to have an obsession with finding the "best" science and mathematics books but no longer do.

I got rid of four boxes of books the summer before last. I didn't catalog all that I gave away then, nor did I catalog the books that I resold after graduating high school.

I may start cataloging books that I would especially like to read but haven't had a chance to check out from a library or purchase yet. However, I would tag these separately. I'm an underliner, so I prefer to purchase books, but because of financial exigencies I often end up borrowing books from the library and scribbling near-illegible annotations in a notebook as I read.

I'm starting to think my extensive library is more a manifestation of neurosis in the vein of obsessive-compulsive disorder than of erudition. I do the best I can, I suppose.

The periodical I read the most often is The Atlantic_, but I also enjoy selections from The Economist, New Internationalist, The New Republic, and The WSJ from time to time, along with salient selections from biochemical and organic chemistry journals. I also read A TON of well-written, insightful blogs when I have the time.

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LocationCentral Florida

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Member sinceMar 4, 2009