Category: Books

A memoir set during the author’s bout with cancer, but it’s about much more than that. This is a dude who has lived a very interesting life.

This history of World War I traces the intertwined lives of a selection of British citizens before and during the conflict. Some supported the war and some opposed it, and most of them were fairly important for their respective side.

The scope and senselessness of the tragedy are difficult to comprehend, but this book helps a little. What terrible mistakes are we making that future generations will look back on with incomprehension?

Thank you, Amy.

Wow. Impossible to say anything about this novel without giving away important details. Anyway, darn good read. Thanks for the tip, PB.

Fantastic. Kahneman reviews much of the recent research in behavioral economics and related disciplines, including his own work (he is one of the founders of the field).

The overarching topic is the tension between our fast, intuitive modes of thought and our more deliberative, somewhat rational side.

It is an enlightening and humbling tour around the limits of human rationality.

A seriously good collection of essays on music, culture, and history.

I liked this novel, and find it impossible to summarize. I needed my dictionary a lot.

Ahem. Yes. I read a book called the Vampire Witch Twins. But in Spanish! I still have something like four verb tenses to learn, I’m not ready for the heavy stuff yet.

An entertaining and spirited defense of consumer culture. I’m not sure it completely makes its case, but it’s well worth reading for the novel perspective. Warning: may induce moral panic in certain personality types!

A very useful book. I wasn’t ready for everything it presents, but it is a valuable reference I will be going back to as I progress.

A short little graphic novel in Spanish for, I think, adolescents. But it works pretty well for new students of Spanish.