book reviews

Bird By Bird and Prep School Lunches

You can blame Anne Lamott for this mashup. Bird by Bird is one of those books that I have seen recommended by so many writers...

New Escapologist - Magazine Review

Robert Wringham is on to something. A few months ago he re-started a magazine, in paper form, via a Kickstarter. I decided to back it,...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Book Review

I really, really wanted to love How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. I battled stoically through hundreds of pages, every so often finding...

The Inheritors - Book Review

Imagine being an early human, early hominid, with a brain very different from yours. Trying to make sense of the world with limited references and...

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Book Review and Notes

"You’re probably becoming more of an asshole, but you’re also probably sadder... your ability to know the world, to know truth, has been degraded, while...

The Iron Man - Book Review

"The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How...

My Midsummer Morning - book review and thoughts

There are times when I feel trapped in a life of domesticity. With countless ties pulling me away from the freedom to just disappear, go,...

The Moth - book review

I promised her that when she died, that for the rest of my life I was gonna live for her. I mean really live for...

Digital Minimalism - book review & notes

I recently read Cal Newport's latest book Digital Minimalism - On Living Better with Less Technology after being one of the volunteers who agreed to...

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