其實我只是一個小小書蟲：曬曬２０１９年讀過的書

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這篇應該是讀書目錄trilogy的最後一篇。再過幾天就是２０２０年了，the roaring 20's the JAZZ age. 雖然還會繼續讀書，雖然也許依舊會在科學的世界裡忘卻人世間的激昂與乏味美麗與哀愁，但，應該不會再繼續貼書目鳥。三年的靜心讀書，三年的苦苦思索人生的意義生命的初衷，最後的答案就是此題無解沒有答案或者說有無窮解就如一道初中時代的只有一個已知equation的三元三次方程，然，在吾欲上下而求索的過程中卻偶遇inner peace. 是的，science is all about serendipity, 而這份inner peace就是人生最美的serendipity。

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. 這本書大概是唯一的一本讀過之後在不到一個月的時間內就情不自禁再讀一次的書。雖然quantum mechanics的書讀了很多，雖然對double-slits波粒二相性Bell theorem spooky connection這些topics早已熟悉，但，整本書只是圍繞 double-slits這一主題的書，卻是第一次讀。而在讀過那些２１世紀最cutting edge的double-slits實驗數據之後，以邏輯與科學之名，唯一的科學和理性的結論就是對這個世界reality的fundamental level應有的真實與懷疑。卿本佳人，奈何做賊？on the same token, 如果這世界的真實性只存在於stochastic的sense裡，那麼，我們怎麼可能沒有forever inner peace?

anyway, 無論用中文還是用英文，我是無法寫明白我想說的，人類的語言，和人類的科學一樣落後在a disgustingly low level of form that matches homo spaiens impeccably, 所以，無需多言，開始貼書目。

這些書多是第一次讀，也有些是一讀再讀。

Jan 6 - The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Well worth reading.

Jan 13 - The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin. Well worth reading.

Jan 20 - Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. By John Milton Cooper. Worth reading.

Jan 28 - Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt. By Edward P. Kohn. Worth Reading.

Feb 7 - The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914. By Barbara W. Tuchman. Worth Reading.

Feb 15 - Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. By Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon. Worth Reading.

Feb 23 - Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By Mark Pendergrast. Some worth reading.

Feb 28 - The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number. By Mario Livio. Worth reading.

Mar 6 - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. By Lawrence M. Krauss. Worth reading.

Mar 8 - Hidden in Plain Sight 3: The Secret Of Time. By Andrew H. Thomas. Some worth reading.

Mar 18 - The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.

Mar 26 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. By Steve Brusatte. Well worth reading.

Mar 30 - Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics (The Frontiers Collection). By Henry P. Stapp. Not worth reading.

Apr 7 - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. By Simon Winchester. Well worth reading.

Apr 12 Journey to the Centre of the Earth. By Jules Verne. Worth reading.

Apr 14 - Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.

May 1 - Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. By Kip S. Thorne. Well worth reading. One of the best science books I ever read. A perfect mixture of science and science history, both absorbing, and amazingly the science history parts actually help to understand the science parts of the book. A great pleasure reading this book from the beginning to the end.

May 13 - A Brief History of Time. By Stephen Hawking. Worth reading.

May 18 - The Universe in a Nutshell. By Stephen Hawking. Worth reading.

May 20 - From the Earth to the Moon. By Jules Verne. Worth reading.

May 31 - Travels with Charley in Search of America. By John Steinbeck. Well worth reading.

June 5 - The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe. By Thomas Levenson. Worth reading.

Jun 15 - Six Not-so-easy Pieces: Einsteins Reality, Symmetry, and Space-time. By Richard Feynman. Well worth reading.

Jun 17 - Confessions of a Shopaholic. By Sophie Kinsella. Well worth reading.

Jun 22 - How Physics Confronts Reality. By Roger G. Newton. Worth reading.

Jun 29 - Freedom and Determinism: topics in Contemporary Philosophy. Edited by Joseph K Campbell, Michael O’Rourke and David Shier. Some worth reading.

Jul 7 - Einstein, Physics and Reality. By Jagsish Mehra. Some worth reading.

Jul 10 - The Grand Design. By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Worth reading.

Jul 22 - 1492: The Year the World Began. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Well worth reading.

Jul 27 - Lean In. By Sheryl Sandberg. Worth reading.

Aug 11 - The Indian Ocean. By Michael Pesrson. Worth reading.

Aug 17 - The Vacationers, A Novel. By Emma Straub. Not worth reading.

Aug 25 - All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel. By Anthony Doerr. Well worth reading.

Aug 30 - Physics of the Universe. By Mendel Sachs. Worth reading.

Sep 2 - The Rosie Project. By Graeme Simsion. Well worth reading.

Sep 10 - How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. By Ray Kurzweil. Well worth reading.

Sep 12 - Destination Unknown. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.

Sep 22 - The Tipping Point. By Malcolm Gladwell. Worth reading.

Oct 4 - Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.

Oct 8 - A Guide to Weather. By W J Burroughs, B Crowder, T Robertson, E Vallier-Talbot, R Whitaker. Worth reading.

Oct 12 - Endless Night. By Agatha Christie. Worth Reading.

Oct 15 - Third Girl. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.

Oct 25 - Lost in Mongolia. By Colin Angus, Worth reading.

Nov 2 - Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision. By Melvyn A. Goodale and A. David Milner, Worth reading.

Nov 10 - Thermodynamic Universe: Exploring The Limits Of Physics: Exploring the Limits of Physics . By B. G. Sidharth. Worth reading.

Nov 12 - Poirot Investigates. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.

Nov 20 - Quantum Mechanics and Experience. By David Z. Albert. Worth reading.

Nov 30 - Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.

Dec 2 - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.

Dec 7 - Lord Edgware Dies. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.

Dec 15 - Evil Under the Sun. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.

Dec 20 - The Murder on the Links. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.

Dec 26 - Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World. By Leslie Alan Horvitz. Well worth reading.