From the cream of the crop to the dogshit. The best and worst books of 2024.As I mentioned in my other summary, I read too many books AGAIN. People tell me that there’s no such thing but there is. We should not…5d ago5d ago
Making better decisions, probably. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann.“Subjective confidence in a judgement is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgement is correct. Confidence is a…Jan 14Jan 14
Reading Summary 2024. TLDR: Too many fucking books.I did not expect to read that many books in 2024. But if I had kept going and had watched less in Instagram, I probably would have cleared…Jan 12Jan 12
A young Dickens at his most Dickens. On his Nicholas Nickleby.I don’t know why for the longest time I thought that the titular character is named Nickerby instead of Nickleby. Both have got a nice ring…Dec 30, 2024Dec 30, 2024
Escaping the prison of the mind with the stench of literature.Dai Sijie, like the nameless narrator in the story, went through a period of re-education in Mao Zedong’s China where he needed to relearn…Dec 23, 2024Dec 23, 2024
They have no idea what’s coming, do they? Generation X by Douglas CouplandBeing a millennial, I guess I’m somewhere between Gen X and Z if we go with it alphabetically. In my social media, in daily conversations…Dec 18, 2024Dec 18, 2024
A gem or an accident of the brushstroke? The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.They don’t call Johannes Vermeer’s The Girl with the Pearl Earring as the Mona Lisa of the north for nothing. Just like Mona Lisa, we don’t…Dec 16, 2024Dec 16, 2024
Surviving Shakespeare’s Restless World. Studying objects from Shakespeare’s times.This is the book you wish you’d read without knowing much about Shakespeare. The author, Neil MacGregor, is the Director of the British…Dec 14, 2024Dec 14, 2024
Percy Jackson and The Philosopher’s Stone. Oops, I mean the Lightning Thief.Sure sure sure. I read this book just because it appears naggingly in various book lists in List Challenges. My assumptions about this book…Dec 10, 2024Dec 10, 2024
