Books of the month — May 2022
Five books, briefly reviewed: Luis Landero, Camus's The Stranger, Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, Padura, and David Eagleman's Incognito.
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Un hombre inmaduro. Luis Landero. Brilliant. You split your sides laughing and want to cry in equal measure.
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The Stranger. Albert Camus. A reread of a classic that always refreshes me. Bare prose. Good reading for the post-pandemic era.
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The Signal and the Noise. Nate Silver. Very good. How to build the right attitude for operating in the realm of the probable. And how to deflate the triumphant airs of those who predict without shame.
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The Man Who Loved Dogs. Leonardo Padura. A terrific novel. Straight into the classic titles of the twenty-first century.
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Incognito. David Eagleman. Revealing. In one of his poems Rubén Darío spoke of "unconscious cerebration". Most of our lives take place down in those tunnels.