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News Of The WeekNews Of The Week

Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. I’m sorry for the delay in getting out the newsletter, but I couldn’t get my laptop’s wifi connected on vacation. Thanks again for all of the quality posts. I hope to start working on breaking out some of the older content that appears in this newsletter into separate anthologies in April. I have other outside work issues that may extend that timeline.

You may notice that this week we have our first short story submission, which could also be categorized as a bedtime story. Thanks, @VEINTIUNO. I would like to see more of this short fiction. I wrote a short, kind of silly story that I may post to fill up the category a little. It really could be a serial, but I don’t know if I have the time to keep working on it. Whatever it is, it’s not finished, as you’ll discover if you read it.

Anyway, that’s it for now. I hope everyone has a great week.

Top Five Posts Of The WeekTop Five Posts Of The Week

The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.

Here are this week’s top posts:

• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson by @Scoresby
• Wife’s Cancer Diagnosis, Part # 4 by @hodlpleb
• Declare, by Tim Powers by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
• J Bier - The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules by @south_korea_ln
• Sensei Stacked Over 600K Sats On SN by @cryotosensei

Siggy’s SuggestionsSiggy’s Suggestions

• Stoic Book Club, Meditations, Part 6 by @Se7enZ

A weekly favorite of mine, although last week my vacation prevented me from getting as much out of it as I usually do.

• Discuss This Quote-Garfield(not the cat) by @grayruby)

A short but good discussion. Once again, I missed it because of my vacation.

• A Thread On The Lost Libraries Of The Ancient World by @CoffeeWithTheClassics

I always like reading about lost libraries. In fact, I wouldn’t mind reading a few books on this subject, if anyone has any recommendations.

Writing ContestsWriting Contests

• Writing Contest #1
• Writing Contest #2

Stackers’ BlogsStackers’ Blogs

• Fighting The Daily Grind by @cryotosensei
• Personal Blog, Got My First Job by @CyberCrypto

My Bitcoin JourneyMy Bitcoin Journey

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.

• Grayruby’s Bitcoin story by @grayruby
• I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes

Book ClubsBook Clubs

• Stoic Book Club:Meditations by @Se7enZ

BooksBooks

• The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
• Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
• Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
• The Rogue Scholar, Chapter 1 by @jbschirtzinger
• Submersible by @johnbnevin

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig by @carlosfandango
• The World’s First Bitcoin Fiction Anthology by @KonsensusN
• Man’s Search For Meaning by @carlosfandango
• The Sovereign Individual by @carlosfandango
• Neuromancer by @Scoresby
• Elric Of Melnibone by @Scoresby
• The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner by @Scoresby
• Human Action by @Undisciplined
• Dune Books & Movies by @Undisciplined
• Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of Time: Books 1-3 by @Undisciplined
• A History Of Religious Ideas #1 by @Se7enZ
• A History Of Religious Ideas # 2 by @Se7enZ
• A History Of Religious Ideas #3 by @Se7enZ
• Nova, by Samuel R Delaney by @Scoresby
• Blood Music, by Greg Bear by @Scoresby
• Schismatrix, by Bruce Sterling by @Scoresby
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K Dick by @Scoresby
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson by @Scoresby
• For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway by @plebpoet (meta territory post)
• Declare, by Tim Powers by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
• “What Is That?” Said The Cat by @cryotosensei
• Zero Days, By Ruth Ware by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

EssaysEssays

Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche

PoetryPoetry

• #411278 by @cryotosensei
• plebpoet’s original poem + discussion by @plebpoet
• Churning Black Matter by @Nuttall

Short StoriesShort Stories

• Neo’s Adventure In The Digital Realm: Discovering The Treasure Of Bitcoin by @VEINTIUNO