What are you reading?

These days I'm pretty slack at reading books. I always used to have a book in my bag that I would whip out if there was the slightest danger of social interaction. These days a phone or a Switch does the job, with headphones. Can't wait for VR, that will send the right signal!

Okay, I'm not that bad,but I really do dislike idle chattering. I'm that annoying guy that forgets to do the hugs and kisses, to ask about your dog and kids. I tend to just blurt out what was on my mind that I needed to ask....

So these are the two books that I still take around when I'm in tour.

This is a essay into the question of consciousness with mathematics and physics as the starting point. No airy fairy nonsense here!

This is a lighter read. A comic series based on the lives of exiled Fables (characters from fairy tales) that are trying to live out their lives in the mundane world after being forced out of their homelands by an unnamed enemy (the big bad!). It's a great comic, even for those that don't generally like the genre.

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For an entry into this week's SBI giveaway, tell me about the book or books that you are currently reading or trying to read.

Steem Basic Income

One of the first communities that I came in contact with at the beginning of my time at Steemit was @steembasicincome. As a beginning author, Steemit can be a daunting place. It feels like you are posting into an abyss with no ability to grow. Steem Basic Income gives you a guaranteed vote on one post a day, thus giving you a small but cumulative over time support to your account.

With this post, I want to help sponsor people who might not even have the spare 1 STEEM that is required for registration. So, when this post pays out, I will sponsor people depending on the payout of this post. Basically, I will round up the SBD payout from this post and then that will be the number of people I will sponsor. (So, if the payout is 2.3 SBD, I will sponsor 3 people).

Rules

1. Upvote if you want, it increases the payout and then I can hopefully sponsor more people.
2. Resteem is NOT neccessary, but the more people see this, the more the people will be likely to be sponsored. 3. I'll let everyone know at payout!
3. In the comments, tell me what book or books you are reading!
4. I will be sponsoring as many people as this post pays out in SBD. Also I will kick in at least the required amount to round up to the full number. Winner is at my discretion!

Last week's winners

Last post payout was 1.987 SBD. So, 2 shares that I will be sponsoring. Screw it, it's close enough. I'll do 3.

@soosenkasper

When i was young i helped my mother quite frequently when she was cleaning the house even though i wasnt really helpful at that age :D Anyways she told me that those dishwasher tabs are so toxic that even just touching them could poison you bad. In retrospect i know that she just tried to scare me so wouldnt accidentally swallow the tab or put the finger which touched the tab in my mouth but i somehow never questioned it until a few years back when i asked myself why i always tried to have the least possible contact with it
I thought that my pokemon games back then were connected to the internet or some other network because i kept discovering new pokemon and was convinced that they werent in the game before :D Most of the time i even just read about them in a megazine so i kind of get why i came to the conclusion even though it seems just stupid today

@agmoore

I've always been absent-minded. When it came time that everyone around me learned to drive, I refused. I was certain I did not belong on the road because I was so absent-minded. Then I moved to the suburbs. I continued to refuse--for about a year. Getting around was tortuous, so I finally relented. I went through a bunch of fender benders, but eventually learned to pay attention. Now, I'm a great driver. I also don't lose my keys anymore.
I traveled to Spain as a young, single woman. My Spanish was poor, but I was an eager learner. As I went about my travels in conservative Andalucia, I apologized for my poor Spanish by saying, "Estoy embarazada". I thought I was saying, "I'm embarrassed". What I was actually saying was, "I'm pregnant". It took me weeks to discover my error.

@tspink

Serious: I was doing a rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit (for premature babies) and one of the babies I was taking care of was a withdrawal baby. The mother was a chronic opioid abuser and was admittedly taking pain medications during pregnancy and was still abusing drugs. I thought for sure because of the fact that the pain medications could cross the breast milk it would be a bad idea to let the mom breastfeed. However, I was in fact wrong and research shows that letting mother breastfeed actually reduces withdrawal in these babies and increases mother-baby bonding. Something that seemed so counterintuitive at first but admittedly I was wrong.

Trivial/funny: When I was little, my parents told me I was going to be getting a "new addition to the family" in terms of a baby sister. At the time I was the only child and very small so I asked if they could just give the baby (my sister) back to the stork.. Later I apparently realized thats not really where babies come from and I was indeed going to be a big brother to a new baby sister.

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Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry, I plan to do this (as long as I can keep coming up with decent questions) for a while, so come back and have a go!

I will sort the SBI as soon as this baby loses consciousness...

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