Showing posts with label recommended. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recommended. Show all posts
Monday, January 26, 2026

Review: Notes on Being a Man

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 Notes on Being a Man is Scott Galloway's open letter to his two teenage sons. It falls into the same genre of self-help books as Succe...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Review: The Escape

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 The Escape won an award for the best Sports-related book of the year. It was on sale for $3 on Amazon (and the library didn't have a c...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Review: LG Gram 17" Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Laptop

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 With my ancient Dell XPS laptop feeling super slow in 2025, I decided it was time to acquire a new laptop. The Dells are no longer my lapto...
Monday, January 05, 2026

Review: A Marriage at Sea

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 A Marriage At Sea is Sophie Elmhirst's retelling of the story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey , who survived a 118 day ordeal in a lifer...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Review: The Sexual Evolution

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 Way back in the 2000s, during a club ride, Dick Matthews turned to me at lunch and said, "I don't think I've ever seen a D rid...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Review: Grunt

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 In truth, this review of Grunt should be marked a re-read, since I'd read it before but had forgotten to write a review. In this book,...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Re-read: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainteneance

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 One of the perils of reading books to your kids in an effort to mold their tastes is that while they might not take to the reading, you...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Review: Cosmos

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 Boen was resisting learning math, so I bought him Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey and we started watching it together. Bowen got really into i...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Review: Science Under Seige

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 Science Under Siege is the account of the authors' experience working as researchers in both climate science and vaccines, both of who...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Books of the Year 2025

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 I read 72 book s this year, which is more than my usual count, probably because I started reading more graphic novels again, which tend to ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Review: Very Far Away From Anywhere Else

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 I remember reading Very Far Away From Anywhere Else as a teenager and finding it very moving. It was sort of a teen romance story, but wit...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Review: Plays Well With Others

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 Plays Well With Others claims to dispell myths about human relations with science.  It turned out to be a fun book to read and well-writte...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Review: Aurora

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  Aurora is Kim Stanley Robinson's book about a generation starship arriving at Tau Ceti after several generations. The colonists onboa...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Review: Struck by Genius

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 Struck by Genius is the story of Jason Padgett (ghost written by Maureen Seaberg) about his transition from being a non-academic party ani...
Monday, November 03, 2025

Review: Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex

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 Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex was on sale for $2, so I picked up the kindle copy. In case you haven't kept up with any of th...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Review: The Grand Design

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 The Grand Design came recommended by the Amazon Kindle direct mail ad, and it was available at the library so I checked it out and read it...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Review: The Woman Behind the New Deal

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 The Woman Behind the New Deal is the biography of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor. I've read biographies of FDR before,...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Review: Genius Makers

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 Genius Makers is a biography/chronicle of Geoff Hinton and a number of his students, starting from Hinton's entry into the AI field un...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Human Compatible

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 I took my one and only AI class from Stuart Russell, who wrote Human Compatible . Written in 2019, this book predated OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Review: Empire of Pain

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 Empire of Pain is the history of the Sackler family. This is the family responsible for the opioid epidemic in the USA, killing lots of Am...