I am continuing my very eclectic reading list, via Audible audio books that I am listening to on my iPhone and synced via Bluetooth to my BMW’s audio system during my silly 1 hour 15 min. driving commute each way from my home to my office in New York City. Since I have two and a half hours of driving each day, Monday through Friday, audio books offer an ideal way to make what would otherwise be unproductive time into an entertaining and educational respite that I actually look forward to. I find that listening to an audio book actually can de-stress the aggravations of traffic and therefore probably lowers my blood pressure. So after listening to the local radio stations for weather, traffic, news, sports scores and market info, I can switch to an audio book to “switch gears”. So for those who may be interested, here is my most recent list of ‘reads’:


1. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By Colin Woodard


2. The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
By Steve Fraser


3. Food: A Love Story
By Jim Gaffigan


4. Tom Clancy Under Fire
By Grant Blackwood


5. The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
By James K. Galbraith


6. When to Rob a Bank: And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnar
(Authors of FREAKONOMICS)


7. The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
By James Rickards


8. Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
By Matt Taibbi


9. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
By Francis Fukuyama


10. The Joy of Retirement: Finding Happiness, Freedom and the Life You’ve Always Wanted
By David C. Borchard and Patricia A. Donohoe


AVB-AMG

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My current & recent car history:
2020 BMW 440i xDrive Coupe (Wife's daily driver)
2016 BMW X5M (My daily driver)
2014 BMW M6 Coupe (gone)
2013 BWM 335i xDrive Coupe (gone)
2011 BMW 335xi turbo coupe (gone)
2007 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG (gone)
2007 BMW 335ci twin turbo coupe (gone)
2004 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG (gone)
2004 BMW X5 4.4i (w/full Aero Kit - gone)
2001 BMW X5 4.4i (w/full Aero Kit - gone)
2000 Mercedes-Benz E430 Sport (gone)
1961 Mercedes-Benz 190SL (owned for 48 years)

Right now i'm stuck in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an "Eternal Golden Braid".
It's a book about music and artifical intelligence. The tagline "a metaphorical
fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll"

It's a look at the brilliant minds of mathematician Kurt Godel, graphic artist M. C. Escher,
and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, computer-science and cognitive-science professor
Douglas Hofstadter ties together the aesthetic gift of pattern recognition and manipulation
with theories on artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and the essence of self-awareness.

I keep having to start over because it's difficult. I put it down and it lays in wait until I decide
to take it up again. Starting over is just as interesting as it was the first time I read it.

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"What you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.”
Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

reading forums at mo, and workin through my huge book of Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Official Strategy Guide: Amazon.co.uk: David Hodgson: 0634482710678: Books

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2001 black 4.4 , tv. satnav.
and for the weekends

I'm reading Reno Kings (guide to property management investment - gf and I want to buy a rental income property within the next two years.

Aziz Ansari - Modern Romance
Judd Apatows book forgot what it's called. Got about half way and lost interest tho

The Martian
Astronaut Wives Club
Moonshot
And most recently finished Al Shepard's biography