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Essays, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

August 26, 2022September 13, 2021

Occasional Views Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays – Samuel R. Delany

20 year old me would have enjoyed this a lot more than me now.

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Cognitive Science, Non-Fiction, Writing  0 Comments

August 12, 2022September 10, 2021

The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr

This book felt like the first PhD literature review I ever gave a shit about.

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

July 29, 2022September 8, 2021

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum – Katherine Boo

Non-fiction that reads like fiction. Pretty enjoyable, actually.

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Atheism, Counter Apologetics, Essays, Non-Fiction, Religion, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

July 15, 2022August 25, 2021

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God – Guy P. Harrison

This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.

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Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

July 1, 2022August 22, 2021

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain

Here is a hot take: after reading this I feel like I understood Anthony Bourdain’s suicide.

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Conservative, Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

June 17, 2022August 21, 2021

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World – Charles Koch

If you hate Charles Koch you should steal a copy of ‘Believe in People’ and read it. It’ll just make you hate him more.

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Non-Fiction  2 Comments

June 3, 2022August 4, 2021

Maps of Meaning – Jordan Peterson

This is among one of the worst books I have ever read.

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English, History, Humour, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 20, 2022August 14, 2021

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever – John McWhorter

John McWhorter is a favorite of mine, so I am admittedly biased. But I enjoyed it.

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Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

April 29, 2022July 13, 2021

Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography – Mike Tyson and Larry Sloman

Apparently this is a ‘Sports Book’. I am somehow not convinced.

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Economics, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Novel, Politics, Sociology  0 Comments

April 15, 2022May 10, 2021

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present – Yanis Varoufakis

Regardless of the author, writing a Utopia has always been a bad idea.

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