Tag: recommended
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Review: Holiday’s Stillness Is The Key
Stillness Is The Key Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday is loved by tech bro culture, and largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in Stoicism by a certain type of middle age white dude (one of whom is me). His books follow a formula – take basic life advice and illustrate it with life lessons from…
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Review: Douglas’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass The first of Fredrick Douglass’s autobiographies and as of now, the only one I’ve read.* When this was published Douglass was still a relatively unknown escaped slave, just beginning to break through on the abolitionist speaking circuit. Two things are striking about this little book –…
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Review Tolentino’s Trick Mirror
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion Jia Tolentino When it feels like everyone in your world is reading the same book and that book is a collection of essays by a staff writer for the New Yorker it can be easy to buck the trend and say nope. Reader, I suggest you don’t do that…
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Review: Higginbotham’s Midnight in Chernobyl
Midnight in Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham The definitive account of what happened at Chernobyl and the book that was the source of much of what is in the HBO mini-series. A tick-tock of the most destruction nuclear meltdown in history. A story of massive corruption and incompetence in Soviet Russia. A chronicle of the destruction of…
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Review: Rinpoche’s In Love With The World
In Love With The World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying Yongey Minguy Rinpoche Mingyur Rinpoche is one of the most respected Tibetan Buddhist teachers in the world. He has taught at meditation retreats in every continent, runs a group of prominent monasteries, and is a member of a distinguished line…
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Review: Epstein’s Range
Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World David Epstein There is a certain kind of book I cannot resist and that book follows this basic format: Here is an ostensibly counter intuitive idea. Here are a series of chapters wherein the following form to substantiate the idea An anecdote is presented A study or…
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Review: Winslow’s The Border
The Border Don Winslow The final book in Don Winslow’s trilogy about the drug war completing the story of a troubled American agent and his series of drug king pin nemesis. While not as stark as Power of the Dog, and (thankfully) not as violent as The Cartel, this was still top-notch crime writing. I…
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Review: Keefe’s Say Nothing
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe Where to even start with this book? This is the story of the tragic murder of Jean McConville, a mother of ten who was taken from her home in the middle of the night. It’s also the story of the…
Milo and the Calf 