The Courage to Be Disliked – Kishimi & Koga
The Courage to be Disliked is a discussion between a philosopher and a young adult who comes to challenge the philosopher on the validity of their ideas. The philosopher has taken Alfred Adler’s psychological theory of individual psychology to heart and spends the book teaching it to the visitor. My favourite point to think about…
Style: Non-fiction
Footprints In Search of Future Fossils – David Farrier
What types of fossils will our society leave behind? What is the half life of our nuclear waste, and what does that mean in the terms of future generations that will still have to deal with it? How is the pollution we’re putting into the atmosphere today going to show up for generations to come?…
Style: Non-fiction
The Toll – Neal Shusterman
This is the final book in the Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan have disappeared and Scythe Goddard has nothing standing in his way to his dream of unchecked killing by his new order of Scythe’s. I found the book had me on the edge of my seat, just like the whole series…
Style: Fiction
Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of the Scythe series. This follows Anastasia as she tries to “glean” with compassion while openly challenging the new order of Scythes that want to gain more power over the world. I found the world compelling and will read through the whole series again.
Genre: Science FictionStyle: Fiction
Thinking in Systems – Donella H Meadows
Just a few pages into this book I was expecting a fairly dense book on the mechanics of systems thinking. In fact I assumed the first chapter was a warmup to deep hard to wrap my head around topics. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t that type of book. Meadows treats readers to a…
Style: Non-fiction
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is supposed to be some all fired amazing book about randomness. The title is derived from the idea that Europeans thought all swans were black until they visited Australia and suddenly found a black swan. They had no way of knowing that what they thought was true was untrue until confronted by the evidence.…
Style: Non-fiction
Courage is Calling – Ryan Holiday
On my shelf remains unread.
Genre: PhilosophyStyle: Non-fiction
Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff
The biggest idea was intrigued by here was radical democracy, which in this context means that only workers have any say in the ways they work and the ways that any surplus (profits) from their work are spent at their place of work. There are no boards, no shareholders, no owners unless you are doing…
Style: Non-fiction
Decluttered – Jenny Albertini
Decluttered is a different book that I imagined it would be. I expected a book about strategies to reduce the clutter in my home, but I got a bunch more discussion about the systems that bring clutter into our homes and the trauma that may have caused these systems as valid coping mechanisms. Albertini has…
Genre: MinimalismStyle: Non-fiction
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
While this is the second time I’ve read Anxious People, it’s the first time I realized that this is the same author from A Man Called Ove, which is also an excellent read. Anxious People follows a bank robber, turned hostage taker and the people in the apartment they take hostage by accident. These people…
Genre: Literary FictionStyle: Fiction