Showing posts with label book-review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book-review. Show all posts
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Twitter Card Meta Tags

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My girlfriend likes to say that I'm, "such a fanboy" of Mary Roach. Maybe so. I was going to make a Twitter pos...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Misbehaving

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I've been listening to Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler on audiobook. In chapter 3, "The List,...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Winter Reading Challenge

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My local library is running a winter reading challenge. The challenge is to read five books that meet the following criteria between January...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Ghost Map

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johns...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Like Switch

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The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over by Jack Schafer My rating: 4 of 5 stars ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Tehanu

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Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent "see the world through someone else's eyes" book....
Friday, January 10, 2020

2020 Reading List

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I was continuously updating and referencing this list to guide my reading. Therefore, I decided it was more useful to make it a page instead...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Grain Brain

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Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers by David Perlmutter My rating: 3 of 5 st...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Mycroft and Sherlock

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Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar My rating: 5 of 5 stars Great job of portraying a young Sherlock and explaining why Mycroft ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Alchemy

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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland My rating: 5 of 5 stars With exception of the obviou...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Rust by Jonathan Waldman

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Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rust (corrosion) is a constant companion to all life on Earth. It seem...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Who Goes There

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Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent short book for October as Halloween quickly approaches. A l...
Sunday, October 06, 2019

Spaceman

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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! Who h...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Starman Jones

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Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved the concern that Max had for his library book. That really hooked me...
Monday, September 30, 2019

SuperFreakonomics

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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt My rating: ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Dictator's Handbook

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was ex...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved it, but I'm biased since I ...
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

The Obstacle Is the Way

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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday My rating: 5 of 5 stars A perfect book to carry...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Shakedown

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Doctor Who: Shakedown by Terrance Dicks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Can you really have a Doctor Who story that is not about D...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil by Terrance Dicks My rating: 3 of 5 stars The BBC Audio is from the television soundtrack which leaves a fa...