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226: “If they had survived […] assuming they were lucky, assuming they were very lucky. Shea had, for the first time, glimpsed the war. Minds change in glimpses.” My mind changes in sentences. 251: “They wore helmets. They carried rifles. They carried bayonets. They carried tear gas.” Um, I think this was a reference to […]

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan.  After reading this 505 page history, I hereby firmly resolve to not judge a book by its cover.  Had I spent 10-15 minutes skimming chapters, I would have realized that this book is not in fact about “silk roads”, whatever that means to […]

Following my highly successful – I liked it, I mean – 2017 end of year book list, I have decided to make the post a tradition.  What follows is the list, in chronological order, of books I finished in 2018.  If I put an asterisk after the title, it means I started the book in 2017. American […]

Inspired by Aaron Clauset’s annual catalogue of his productivity and spurred by my forgetfulness, this post is the first of what I hope will be many that catalogue my leisure reading of the previous year. In no particular order, I read: The Autobiography of Malcolm X – As good as you’ve heard.  Though dictated, it felt like the […]