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Essays, Medicine, Neurology, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

March 20, 2020October 2, 2019

The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.

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Essays, Humour, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

March 6, 2020September 21, 2019

The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

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Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 21, 2020September 21, 2019

Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper

Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.

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Essays, Humour, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 7, 2020September 18, 2019

How to travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.

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Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 24, 2020September 18, 2019

Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works – and How It Fails – Yanis Varoufakis

I don’t know if distilling economics gives you correct simplifications, but it does make good reading.

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Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Media  0 Comments

January 10, 2020September 14, 2019

United Breaks Guitars – Dave Carroll

United Breaks Guitars went viral, proving to corporations that you can’t just step on customers.

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Comedy, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

December 27, 2019September 10, 2019

Digging Up Mother – Doug Stanhope

The temptation to abandon something you are not initially enjoying is not always something to heed. If you do, you may miss out on some pretty great things.

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Self-Help  0 Comments

December 25, 2019December 25, 2019

Unfu*k Yourself – Gary John Bishop

I decided to see if living by the principles of a self-help book for one calander year would make a difference in my life.

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Atheism, Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Self-Help  0 Comments

November 29, 2019August 14, 2019

Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson

And sometimes some books make you think “I’d rather be reading something else.”

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AI, Computer Science, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

November 15, 2019August 5, 2019

Hello World – Hannah Fry

I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.

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