I Read Many Things

Category: Opinion

  • Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall

    Geography is somewhat of a weird subject. It’s not exactly what you would consider “hard” science, like chemistry or physics, and yet I think it would be wrong to call it a purely social science. It straddles the line between both because it’s such an all-encompassing field. When you describe the chemical composition of our…

  • The Midrange Theory, by Seth Partnow

    Seth Partnow is one of the best basketball journalists around, an expert in sports analytics. I’ve seen some of his work in the past and have heard him quite a few times as a guest on my favourite basketball podcasts. Liking this book was always a given for me. I pre-ordered it as soon as…

  • Assassin’s Apprentice, by Robin Hobb

    I’ve heard the name Robin Hobb quite a few times years ago when I was working in a bookstore. This author is evidently well-known amongst Fantasy readers for her numerous works. My personal experience with fantasy is mostly through the Tolkien legendarium and the Witcher series of books and games. For a while now I…

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie

    Thanks to my lovely wife, I now read way more murder mystery novels than I ever did before. Not nearly as many as her who must have read like a billion of them this year alone, but still one every few weeks or so. In that genre, nobody is as famous as Agatha Christie, who…

  • Nonviolent Communication : A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg (fr)

    Il y a environ deux ans, mes collègues de travail et moi-même avons eu droit à une formation en communication non-violente. Durant cette journée bien remplie, nous avons entendu le nom de Marshall B. Rosenberg à environ douze mille reprises, ce qui témoigne de l’importance de cet homme dans la conception de cette méthode de…

  • The Absorbent Mind, by Maria Montessori (fr)

    Voici un livre qui a marqué ma formation d’enseignant Montessori il y a quelques années. Pendant cette période intensive de plusieurs mois, j’ai eu le privilège de lire plusieurs ouvrages de Maria Montessori, plusieurs qui seront probablement discutés sur ce blog lors de mes relectures éventuelles. The Absorbent Mind, qu’on pourrait traduire simplement par L’Esprit…

  • The Code Book, by Simon Singh

    I first discovered Simon Singh while watching videos on one of my favourite channels, Numberphile. As a physicist with a real love for mathematics, he spoke with eloquence and simplicity about Fermat’s Last Theorem and the omnipresence of maths in The Simpsons and Futurama. In fact, the first book written by him that I’ve read…

  • Le Livre de Perle, par Timothée de Fombelle

    J’ai eu l’occasion de lire Tobie Lolness – premier roman de l’auteur – il y a quelques années. Immédiatement, je suis tombé en amour avec le style de l’auteur. C’est une magnifique histoire, idéale pour les grands enfants et les jeunes adolescents. L’an dernier, c’était le tour de Vango, une autre merveilleuse histoire écrite en…

  • Fluent Forever : How to Learn any Language Fast and Never Forget It, by Gabriel Wyner

    For the past year or so, I’ve been learning Greek through a couple of apps on my phone. Why Greek? For one, part of my DNA is actually from that region of the world – through my father and his mother. Two, I’ve always loved etymology and it’s actually one of the tools we use…

  • This is Going to Hurt, by Adam Kay

    I’ve had this weird fascination with medicine for the past few years. I think it started out when I first watched the TV Show Scrubs. Obviously I’m well aware it’s a comedy show and it’s not meant to be educational. However, I’ve read and heard from reliable sources that it is actually pretty medically accurate…