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No trouble at all. Everyone contributed thoughts and observations, we explored a few tangential concepts, and we saw Vallor's work echoing through some of the other books we'd read lately (which is what you'd expect really). We surfaced what I think is a meaningful critique. So it was beneficial...

:eek:I'm the one who once said the sun rolls around the earth even though I know full well it doesn't!

Ah well, I didn't start the book club, I joined it about 8 months in and I've done just over a year's reading with them. The man who started it did so as a follow up to the work he undertook while on his Churchill scholarship. He's now a data scientist working with health data, so he's very...

There were five of us chatting about it last night, sharing our favourite quotes and insights. Next month's book is called deepfakes and someone else will lead the talk. I have a feeling it will be an easier read. But first I'll catch up on the voyage out.

The bookclub reads books on AI and ethics and this book is Technology and the virtues by Shannon Vallor. She synthesises technomoral virtues from consistencies in the Aristotlean, Buddhist and Confucian cultural-moral practices/traditions. I don't have a grounding in philosophy, so the hefty...

I'm almost at chapter 9, so I'm prepared to say 8 was a relative pushover!

I diligently read all day yesterday and I only made it chapter 8 of the Hard Book. Hoping I can get through chapters 8 & 9 before tonight's discussion 😬 it's not the volume, there are only 92 pages to go to the very end, it's the heft. Anyway, I'd better get on with it...

I'm two weeks behind now because I'm taking a very long time to read the book for the bookclub I'm in and I'm supposedly leading its discussion Monday night. I'm hoping to push through two chapters today and another two tomorrow but I'm not disciplined enough to interpret the text quickly. It's...

Me too! I plan to read all her novels in sequence and I'm very much looking forward to to the lighthouse, which is said to be among her best.

It was a time of great invention in the arts. People liked discussing the new back then.

It's a very weird novel. She set out to break many of the rules and formats, which is never good for readers. But it turned out ok for the artform, enabling others to strike out after her. My problem is that I'm too unperceptive to see what she replaces those rules and formats with. And I...

Chapter 10 this weekend :)

Ah! Poor Susan and Mr Venning, foiled by her aunty.

Chapter 9!

Well... That was a strange chapter with Rachel and Helen ... So strange. Is it an indication of boredom or desperation or entitlement or all these or something else entirely?

But she was so well-read, you'd think she'd have known about the seasons in the other hemisphere. It would've been very well-established knowledge at the time she was writing. Maybe I misread that paragraph.

Hmmm it seems the seasons are Northern hemisphere even though they're in South America. It should be summer in December right? Maybe I've misunderstood her.

It's a demanding text. It doesn't help it's reader but then at times it borders on poetic and my mind is cariied by her words. So, sometimes she carries me through her writing, sometimes I need focus and memory.

Yes!! It's such a snobby sort of novel!

This weekend I'm going to read chapter 8 🤓