It’s the same shtick, but it’s good shtick!

A lovely novel.

This is probably a bit dated due to advances in the state of the art, but it is still a great introduction to the topic of document storage and search.

Great biography. I knew very little of Grant prior to this book and a lot of what I thought I knew was wrong or distorted. For example, although rumors of his drinking problem persisted throughout much of his life and color his legacy, there is very little actual evidence of it after the early part of his military career, and no evidence that it affected his presidency. Now I will have to read his autobiography.

Fun and thought-provoking sci-fi.

Following the triumph of his predictions of the 2012 US election results in the face of massive right-wing criticism, Nate Silver could have easily chosen to write a book about that experience and it probably would have been pretty good. Luckily, though, he chose instead to write a much better book about the art and science of prediction in general, using contemporary examples of successful and failed predictions in many different fields. Spoiler Alert: it all comes down to Bayes’ Theorem.

Halfway through a great series, with a surprising amount of genuinely good humor. It’s fantastically complicated, but don’t try too hard to figure it all out, just enjoy the ride.