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Non-Fiction, Self-Help  5 Comments

June 14, 2019December 30, 2018

Essentialism – Greg McKeown

Feeling crushed by modern life? Here is a solution for you. Do more by doing less.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Textbooks  0 Comments

May 31, 2019December 30, 2018

What is this thing called Knowledge? – Duncan Pritchard

If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that Epistemology is a little pet topic of mine.

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Memoir, Non-Fiction, Writing  2 Comments

May 17, 2019May 11, 2019

On Writing – Stephen King

I keep giving Stephen King a shot, and I keep learning that he may not deserve it.

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

May 3, 2019December 9, 2018

I Can’t Breathe – Matt Taibbi

Eric Garner’s death was one of the most startling events of 2014

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Fiction, Future, Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019

Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil

How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.

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Atheism, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion  0 Comments

April 5, 2019December 3, 2018

Godless – Dan Barker

This book is part memoir, part counter apologetics, and a pretty good tool to understand why atheists don’t believe.

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Conservative, Culture, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

March 22, 2019March 17, 2019

Culture Counts – Roger Scruton

Do you remember the good old days? Roger Scruton does, and his memory of the good old days will save western civilization.

Not really…

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Christianity, Current Events, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Non-Fiction, Politics, Religion  0 Comments

February 22, 2019December 3, 2018

The Strange Death of Europe – Douglas Murray

As you read this book you can hear the sound of someone folding tin foil into a hat.

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science, Trauma, Uncategorized  0 Comments

February 8, 2019November 11, 2018

The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk

Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.

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Longer Views, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Self-Help  0 Comments

January 25, 2019August 4, 2021

Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson

At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.

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