I Read Many Things

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  • Think Again : The Power of Knowing What We Don’t Know, by Adam Grant

    “Knowing what you don’t know.” Those few words were all I needed to want to read this book. As someone who absolutely LOVES to learn about anything and everything, I’ve always been fascinated by the process of learning, how knowledge can evolve, the value of questioning and doubting. In other words, I am the perfect…

  • Troy, by Stephen Fry

    The legendary story of Troy, from the gigantic wooden horse to the (almost) invincible Achilles, is a classic case of a well-known story that is actually not well-known at all. We can usually recall the main plot points fine. A young prince from the city of Troy – Paris – takes Menelaus’ wife, the beautiful…

  • Cosmos, by Carl Sagan

    By now you’ve figured out that I really enjoy the work of science communicators. The teacher in me appreciates how some experts manage to explain complex subjects in a clear and accessible vocabulary. For a lot of people, the term science communicator is synonymous with Carl Sagan, who delighted the generation before mine with the…

  • Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    This book was had been in my bookshelf for over a decade. I bought it in 2012, when it was re-released as a movie tie-in when Lincoln came to theaters, as you can see from the picture above. Yet I’ve never read it before this year. Maybe I was just swept by the marketing behind…

  • 2023 Year in Review

    I like stats and numbering things, so let me do a quick numerical recap of my year of reading books. Total Books read : 75 Fiction books read : 27 Non-Fiction books read : 48 Total pages read : 25 386 pages Average number of pages per book : 338.5 Average pages read per day…

  • The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

    Let’s get one thing out of the gate, the title of this book belongs in the Hall of Fame of Book Titles. And if such a thing does not exist, we’ll have to create it from scratch. It obviously played a role in me buying it, but I had heard of Oliver Sacks beforehand. A…

  • Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

    This book was suggested a couple of times while looking at the best children’s novels of the past century. I knew basically nothing about it except that it involved a boy and a couple of dogs. Now that I’ve read it, I can safely say this is a good summary of what the book is…