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For non-fiction I'm making my way through "Bad Therapy." The gist is that it isn't just awareness, mental health really has been declining since Gen X (as measured by teenage suicides, for example) and that a lot of the treatments and interventions we do to young people are making them more unhappy not fixing things. It is causing me to rethink a lot of my own experiences and theory of mind beliefs.
I finished "How to Invent Everything" and it was a fun rundown of technology, although I'd quibble at a whole chapter on music theory (you don't need music theory to invent music!) but the exclusion of photography was the only gap that bothered me.
For fiction this week I read the Country House Murders anthology in the hopes of discovering a new author to scratch the Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers itch, but not really. I'm also rushing through Clytemnestra's Bind, which reminds me of the amazing Circe* and spending time in an ancient world is always great for the brain. Also some random Tom Clancy that isn't that interesting.
*Selfishly, the author of Circe, Madeline Miller, seems to spend most of her time on her day job and not enough time writing fiction.
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