Tag: Books
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What I Read in 2025
As usual, my last year’s reading was split between deliberate explorations and guilty pleasures. The thrillers, murder mysteries, and crime fiction were my airport reading and guilty pleasures, feeding the inner child who grew up on comics and superhero books.…
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What I read in 2024
My reading goals used to be overly ambitious, leaving me frustrated at year’s end. I inevitably read less than I had planned. But this year, I focused more on engaged and slow reading than meeting my quantitative reading goals. I…
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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Dystopian fiction has become a difficult read for me at this stage of my life. The hopelessness and suffering depicted in these stories trigger a visceral reaction that’s hard to shake off. It’s particularly difficult when my own work exposes…
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Love And Other Thought Experiments
There are several books that are often categorized as ‘genre-bending,’ but this one should be the gold standard to judge whether the term has been justifiably applied to a book. “Love and Other Thought Experiments” by Sophie Ward was longlisted…
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”― Friedrich Nietzsche “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” is a fascinating dissection of how we desire things or non-things. This book is a great introduction to Rene…