Lisbeth Salander

Like many others it seems I've been reading the Millenium series. It's a Swedish mystery series that's generating a lot of attention. I've enjoy it for the most part but I think in some way the most interesting part is the character of Lisbeth Salander. It's too bad that he won't be writing any more books as he died just before it was actually published.

In part this is because she apepars to have Asperegers. She has a photographic memory, extremely bright and yet has serious issues with authority and didn't even finish school. One funny moment I enjoyed is where the teacher gets mad at her because she gives the 'wrong' answer to a problem when in fact it's the texbook that has a mistake in it. That made me laugh.

The book is interesting and you can tell it's a critique of Swedish society, I imagine that some of it is lost in the translation, as well as some of the language obviously.

Interesting book, interesting characters and a good read.

My reading list.

So it looks like it's been a few weeks since my last post unfortunately. My in-laws came up last weekend, and I guess the week before that was Easter, though I did actually have the time to post.

Anyways on to today's post.

I heard an interesting interview with Yann Martel, about his new book Beatrice and Virgil. It was a bit of a strange interview; I think they were trying hard not to give anything away.

It reminded me of the website What is Stephen Harper Reading, which provides a series of suggestions for the Prime Minister to read.

I've actually pulled a few things of that list for my own reading list. I'm not much of a fiction reader though. Generally I read non-fiction, though I do occasionally like to spice things up and read some fiction. I used to read some science fiction, but haven't lately.

Here's my current (expanding) reading list in addition to Beatrice and Virgil of course..

The new Extraordinary Canadian biographies ( Marshall McLuhan, Louis Riel and Lafontaine & Baldwin)

The structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (I've had this for a while.. about time I should read it.)

The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow by Peter Tertzakian

and The year of the flood when it comes out in paperback this summer.

Simcity fun

So I've been playing Simicity 4 a bit more recently. I connected one of my cities to a bigger city through a subway line. I returned to my bigger city to play around and start building it up. Then all of a sudden I noticed this:

I was suddenly making 10,000$ a month! and my transit revenue was 10,000$ a month. I have never hit this high before. So I decided to look around and see what was happening. Lo an behold I ran into this!

That's all for today folks.

Oh and I expect to have more time (hopefully/maybe) to start updating more regularly. I'm taking one less course this semester, and have 2 days off a week. The other thing I am hoping to do is some serious reading. I have 2 main classic sort of books to hit this semester. Adam Smith's Wealth on nations, and On the road to serfdom by Hayek. We'll see how that goes. I'm thinking I should maybe read Smith's Theory of Moral sentiments first, but I'm not sure. The next big classic book will be by Keynes.