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Didn't expect to see music in there as a mathematical discipline, although it somehow makes sense and, if you think about it, isn't all that surprising! It shows how our categorisations are always arbitrary and could be different if we looked at them a different way.

Later in the book is also mention of how mathematics made its way into art (which makes sense too, because perspective and all)

Never thought of it that way: replacing Latin as the lingua franca of Europe!

...and we're off to a brilliant start! Now I'm iNtErEsTeD 👀

Guess I'm on a roll 👋🏽

I'm getting my personal finances in order using plaintext accounting: it's basically the "double entry bookkeeping" everyone keeps talking about, but in plaintext format, and then you can use tools like ledger-cli and @PaisaFinanceApp@mastodon.social to analyse it.

So when I stumbled upon this book, I thought, hey, if I'm going to do this why not go all in? 🤪

Wanted to get all my finances/bookkeeping in order so :P

@Savi woah sounds like something I should check out 👀

Finished a book in one sitting after a long time! This book had a good mix of plot and philosophy, along with a very intense ending. I won't say more.

My parents found this dual Japanese/English short story collection at Bookworm (on Church Street, Bengaluru) and I'm using it to (finally) test the results of my Duolingo Japanese lessons.

The book is well laid-out, with the Japanese text on the right and its English translation on the left. It's a slow start, but I surprise myself by actually being able to comprehend half the Japanese, and match the rest when I refer to the English translation!

That was an intense read! I wouldn't say it was very rich literature-wise (especially after The Odyssey) but story-wise it had a good balance of depth and lightness. And plenty of humour!

Started reading this and finished about 10% in the first sitting! After The Odyssey I thought I was stuck with iambic pentameter but this book has brought me back to the world of prose 😛

The story is moving very fast; I thought it was going to be a long philosophical discource with the cow but no, the plot moves on and wow it's a whole different world! I won't say more because that may get into spoiler territory but so far it's all quite 😮

@verglas@books.theunseen.city ahh, oops, that makes sense! I took a sneak peek at Emily Wilson's introduction to her translation of the Iliad, and was happy to note that at least half the characters sounded familiar because I'd encountered them in The Odyssey. So heres hoping that'll help me through 😉

Finished reading it this morning before work! Wow, that went by faster than I expected 😮

The story flowed so well I didn't even realise it was passing by. Aks tells me that The Odyssey is very accessible compared to other works of the period, so that makes sense, but it makes me want more. Also this is the first time I've happily gone through a whole workful of iambic pentameter! (The original Odyssey was written in dactylic hexameter, but this translation is in iambic pentameter)

Now...on to the iliad? 🤔

So I started reading this! Posting late so I'm not sure of the exact date but it was either "yesterday" or "today". Read the intro first as a started, and then began the story itself on the subsequent day 😉

My Chennai reading :P I was thinking to take this to Bessy Reads, but that didn't end up happening. Anyway. This is the first book of Mark Haddon's that I've read that isn't The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; weirdly I was surprised that he's written other books! I don't know how to compare the two since I read the other one long ago, but this was a nice "slice of life" read.

I'm getting some Crome Yellow vibes, not in the writing style or anything but in the way that and The Red House are both setting us down in a place and observing the people there. There's no "plot" that follows anything as neat as a beginning, development, and ending; the story moves forward merely because life does so, too.