20 items
| Author | Brené Brown |
| Finished | 2017-12-24 |
| Started | 2017-12-11 |
| Tags | audiobook, nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0812995848 |
| “Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.” | |
| Author | Siddharth Mukherjee |
| Finished | 2017-12-15 |
| Started | 2017-11-24 |
| Tags | audiobook, nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1476733524 |
| Genetics and evolutionary biology might be the most deeply mysterious and strange field of study there is. I sort of resent that all this bizarre and profound discovery about the origins and mechanisms of life was going on while I was in school, but I learned nothing of it until I was an adult choosing books for myself. | |
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| Finished | 2017-12-10 |
| Started | 2017-11-23 |
| Tags | novel, kindle |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0060895532 |
| Thus concludes the Baroque Cycle. This was the last of his novels that I hadn't read: an eight-volume, three-thousand-page opus that dominated my fiction consumption for a year and a half. Visiting the Metropolitan museum and the Tower of London while in the midst of it made the thing come alive. It’s good! | |
| Author | Eli J Finkel |
| Finished | 2017-11-24 |
| Started | 2017-11-20 |
| Tags | audiobook, nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0525955160 |
| A survey of the history of the institution of marriage, and a study of what makes a modern marriage work. I appreciated the idea of keeping a “social portfolio” of people who can serve your various emotional needs rather than relying solely on your spouse. And the idea of temporarily descending the mountain of fulfillment during trying times, in order to just focus on surviving together is especially relevant right now! | |
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| Finished | 2017-11-22 |
| Started | 2017-09-10 |
| Tags | novel, kindle |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0060895358 |
| Author | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Finished | 2017-11-18 |
| Started | 2017-10-01 |
| Tags | nonfiction, audiobook |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1620972250 |
| Guess what: Trump voters are human, and they operate according to genuine human emotions. A Berkeley professor explores first-hand how unrestrained pursuit of profit and indifference to human well-being has caused tragedy and despair in places like rural Louisiana, shaping the political opinions of families there. | |
| Author | Sam Harris |
| Finished | 2017-11-12 |
| Started | 2017-10-14 |
| Details | second loop |
| Tags | audiobook, nonfiction |
| ISBN | 1451636016 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451636017 |
| This was my second loop through, now that I have a more established understanding of the mind and meditation. I picked up quite a few more valuable concepts and tools this time around, particularly the image of consciousness as a pristine space that cannot be affected by the thoughts that pass through it. | |
| Author | Dan Harris |
| Finished | 2017-10-16 |
| Started | 2017-08-14 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0062265432 |
| Author | Alison Gopnik |
| Finished | 2017-10-07 |
| Started | 2017-10-03 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0374229702 |
| Parents tend to want to shape their children to a blueprint, like a carpenter. But the best we can hope for is to give them a healthy environment to thrive in and grow their own way, like a gardener. | |
| Author | Jon Ronson |
| Finished | 2017-10-02 |
| Started | 2017-09-26 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1594634017 |
| Author | Max Tegmark |
| Finished | 2017-09-26 |
| Started | 2017-09-08 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1101946596 |
| This author remains one of my favorite science explainers, this time taking on our possible AI future, which might turn out to be the most consequential thing that has ever happened. I recommend pairing this book with a playthrough of Universal Paperclips. | |
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| Finished | 2017-09-09 |
| Started | 2017-06-26 |
| Tags | novel, kindle |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0060895280 |
| Author | Timothy Snyder |
| Finished | 2017-07-23 |
| Started | 2017-07-22 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0804190114 |
| Author | Eddie Izzard |
| Finished | 2017-07-21 |
| Started | 2017-06-26 |
| Tags | nonfiction |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0399175831 |
| An utterly charming memoir from a truly unique, inspiring, and unflappable soul. Izzard was boldly transgender before it was widely understood, before we had good language for it, certainly before it was cool. And he happens to be a delightful and vivid storyteller, besides. The audio version is positively encrusted with bonus impromptu jokes and digressions and footnotes on footnotes; don’t even consider the text version. | |
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| Finished | 2017-06-26 |
| Started | 2017-01-13 |
| Tags | novel, kindle |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0060733353 |
| Author | Cheryl Strayed |
| Finished | 2017-06-21 |
| Started | 2017-06-05 |
| Tags | nonfiction, audiobook |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0307949332 |
| Author | Elaine N. Aron |
| Finished | 2017-06-04 |
| Started | 2017-03-03 |
| Tags | nonfiction, audiobook |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0553062182 |
| Dramatically helpful and satisfying. This book has given me introspective concepts and tools I wish I’d had all my life. | |
| Volume | 1 |
| Author | 永野護 |
| Finished | 2017-05-07 |
| Started | 2017-05-04 |
| Details | 2017–18 read-through in English |
| Tags | comics |
| ISBN | 404852996 |
| ISBN-13 | 9784048529969 |