New Non-Fiction Reading List

http://byliner.com/spotlights/102-spectacular-nonfiction-articles-2012
Some of these look really excellent.

I'm working to finish George Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral" but it is tough sledding. The author, rather than telling the story of the development of the computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, diverges into the type of brick used in the computer building, the professions of the parents of the scientists who worked there, the design considerations of capacitive memory versus 'tank memory' and a thousand other minutae I couldn't care less about. This is what happens when a person who loves researching a book works without a deadline.

NoCoPilot wrote:

minutae

Phonetically, how do you pronounce that.

Lisa wrote:

NoCoPilot wrote:

minutae

Phonetically, how do you pronounce that.

I say it my-nu-sha.

MIN-you-shay

Very interesting.

Wait, so NoCo do you end up saying the word "menu" when saying it? For me that first i is a "long" i.* I say the letter i in it. Do you not?



*I won't go into a persona diatribe about why "long" and "short" vowels are so horribly, terribly, wrong and are the bane of every school child's existence.