I Read Many Things

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  • 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…