So this is part two of non-fiction books I'm
currently reading.
If you haven't seen part 1 it is on my channel
and also I'll put a link in the description.
Watch that if you want, before this or after
this, there's no particular order anyway um
but yeah.
So these are the last five non-fiction books
that I'm currently reading.
One that I started a really long time ago and
have't actually gone back to in a little while
um but it was really interesting so hopefully
I will go back to it eventually, is The Language
Instinct by Steven Pinker.
This book's from like the nineties or something
so like a little oldish.
It's about language and how we learn languages
as like children and how we're forming languages
in our brains and also as adults a little
bit um.
Where I'm up to it's mostly about children
still, um and it's about how our brain figures
out grammar and language and how it like stores
it and thinks about it and stuff and it's
really really interesting.
It's super cool.
The next one is The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
and Ninety-Nine Other Thought Problems by
Julian Baggini and this is one I mentioned
in the last video um because the title comes
from a thing that's in one of the Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy books, I think it's The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Um they have a pig that they've manufactured
so that it wants to be eaten, like its life
goal is to be eaten and it discusses the morality
of that kind of thing and whether that's better
or worse than just having an animal that's
not aware at all or if it's coercive to make
it think that um and that's just one of the
thought experiments in this there's a lot
of them.
There's a lot of science-fictiony ones like
um teleportation and stuff like that.
It's really interesting.
The next book I'm only like ten pages into
um but it is Physics of the Impossible: A
Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers,
Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel,
yeah there's gonna be a running theme in this
video of like a few books that are to do with
sciencey stuff in science fiction.
Yeah, this is just like a really cool - I
bought it mainly for the time travel aspect
because if you know anything about me, literally
anything about me, you will know that I am
obsessed with time travel, but also like all
the other stuff sounds really cool.
Um yeah, I've not got super far into it but
yeah there's stuff about like cyborgs and
aliens and force fields and stuff like that.
This one is one that is like super old, I
got it second hand and it's another sci-fi one
It's In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism
and Science-Fiction by Sarah LeFanu and fun
fact: she is actually related to Sheridan
Le Fanu, who wrote the book Carmilla.
I don't know if you've heard of that but yeah
that, I found that really interesting.
This is just about like different representations
of women in science-fiction.
I can't remember entirely but I think it's
just um books and literature, and there's
a lot about Ursula Le Guin in here who is
an author that I really really like.
It has a lot of really interesting stuff about
science-fiction and stuff that I hadn't thought
of before reading it myself, um especially
stuff that I read when I was younger because
I wasn't super into feminism then, I didn't
really know much about it.
I didn't like tend to notice these things.
I've only got one post-it note so far but
there will probably be more soon and yeah,
it's a good book.
And the last one is the biggest, even this
one I'm not that far into either um but I
did start it not that long ago so.
It's The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir,
most people have heard of it um.
It's a pretty famous book.
It's about women and feminism throughout like
history and society and why, you know, we
have the patriarchal system that we do, and
yeah there's heaps of post-it notes already
even though I haven't read much.
If you've read any of these books or if you
have suggestions of non-fiction books that
I should read, while reading all of these
probably, um you can comment down below and
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