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This is a thread to keep track of all books I started reading. Not the ones I read. Will note why I started. Whether I finished. Why I gave up. Why I finished. What I loved. Starting with the ones I am reading currently. I often wonder about these things and can’t recollect why
Recommended by @shawnachor in The Happiness Advantage. Loved that book so got intrigued. Convinced by the reviews and the volume of research done by the two writers to put this together. Also happened to be reading the Instagram book and was primed to know more about networks. 
I am a United fan so isn’t surprising I bought it. But it’s been lying around for years. I never bothered because I thought I knew everything already. I finally decided to read this after I finished reading 3 books on Brian Clough. More interested to read about the Aberdeen years
📙#38/100 'Northern Lights' by @PhilipPullman
What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!
I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!
I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
📙#39/100 Issue 233 of the
@parisreview
It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.
I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
@parisreview
It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.
I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
📙#40/100 'Nine Lives' by @DalrympleWill
Impartial & articulate look at sacred vs profane in India. Most fascinating are insights into how religion can underpin unequal social structures, or be the vehicle through which they are legitimately, albeit temporarily, scorned.
Impartial & articulate look at sacred vs profane in India. Most fascinating are insights into how religion can underpin unequal social structures, or be the vehicle through which they are legitimately, albeit temporarily, scorned.
#28 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
#29 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien
A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.
Book and author are both badass.
A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.
Book and author are both badass.
#30 'The Eden Express' by Mark #Vonnegut
An eloquent & deeply human account of his descent into psychotic mania, two relapses, and eventual long-term health.
A @nytimesbooks review nailed it: "Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside."
An eloquent & deeply human account of his descent into psychotic mania, two relapses, and eventual long-term health.
A @nytimesbooks review nailed it: "Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside."
