Welcome to the monthly check-in for the 2025 Key Word Reading Challenge. Let us know in the comments what you read this month!
September Key Words
Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count
A Few Book Recs
Welcome to the monthly check-in for the 2025 Key Word Reading Challenge. Let us know in the comments what you read this month!
Challenge Complete: September Key Words
Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and Its Implications by Carl Sagan
I’m slowly rereading all of Sagan’s books. Most I’ve found a real joy to reread, so many years after the initial reading. But my own pessimism seems to stand in the way with this one. Time has not been kind to the human race.
It’s unfortunate that so many of Sagan’s hope for the future, that “path where no man thought,” never came to fruition. Given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now its drone incursions into NATO countries, we may be even further from that path than we were then.
I found especially interesting those parts that deal with the nuclear winter studies themselves. Studies that the International Council of Scientific Unions found sufficiently convincing to endorse. And though there are parts of the book that may seem dated, it’s more relevant than we may think.
Here is my review of The Crash: https://readingbooksagain.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-crash.html?m=1