My library
I love reading both fiction and non-fiction books. Here I keep a short review for each book I finish. This section is mainly for my benefit, but write me a message if you’d like to talk about books.
Blake Crouch - Dark Matter
I found this book on a random book recommendation list on the internet: Cora’s Goodreads Sci-Fi list. This list contains several books I read and liked. I read Recursion from Crouch last year …
Finished 4 August 2022
Shane Parrish - The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
The promise of this book sounds great. Read these 216 pages, and your thinking will get more efficient. Don’t expect that. The Great Mental Models have one thing going for them: the table of …
Finished 13 July 2022
Marc-Uwe Kling - Qualityland
This is a fun little novel about the near future where marketing rules the world. It is a parody on today’s attention economics and big corporations dictating the rules. The main character is a …
Finished 6 July 2022
Terry Pratchett - Making Money
If you’re considering reading this book, start with Going Postal. Terry Pratchett came up with an ingenious way to lock Moist von Lipwig in another hilarious adventure. This time Lipwig has to …
Finished 16 January 2022
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
Going Postal is the first part of a trilogy about a con artist Moist von Lipwig, the most likeable literary criminal. One day, the ruler of the largest city on Discworld decides that the local post …
Finished 12 January 2022
Philipp Dettmer - Immune
Immune is a popular-science book explaining the human immune system. It presents a complex topic in layman’s language. Philipp Dettmer, the book’s author, is the creator of the educational …
Finished 21 December 2021
Plato - Apology
Apology is Plato’s book with the best Goodreads rating. Plato published it in 399 BC. I picked it up because I’m excited about learning something this timeless. The book is short, roughly …
Finished 21 November 2021
Jim Paul - What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
First, you’ll read Jim’s story as a cautionary tale. Then Jim analyses where he made mistakes. Because of this split into two parts, it’s easy to read the book. The first part is …
Finished 18 November 2021
Denis E. Taylor - Heaven's River
Read the story of several spaceships that contain uploaded human minds. These spaceships are Von Neumann probes; self-replicating spaceships meant to spread through the galaxy. Each spaceship has a …
Finished 12 November 2021
Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan
The Black Swan is a name for an event that is completely unpredictable. The original example is discovering black swans in Australia, disproving the observation that all swans are white. Nassim …
Finished 10 November 2021