Book Reviews of 2023

'Tis always good to think critically about that which our minds ingest. As for quite a few years now, my goal for 2023 is to read 50 books. I'll post blogs about what I learned below.

1 The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
2 A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
3 The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
4 Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
5 Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth
6 Kill Bin Laden by Dalton Fury
7 Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
8 The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
9 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
10 Hangry: A Startup Journey by Mike Evans
11 The Union Is Dissolved! Charleston and Fort Sumpter in the Civil War by Douglas W. Bostick
12 Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
13 The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
14 Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
15 The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
16 Durrës and Apollonia: An Archaeological Guide by Ilir Parangoni
17 Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
18 Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
19 The Last Straw by Tom French
20 Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis
21 A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
22 The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
23 Is Ireland Neutral? The Many Mythsof Irish Neutrality by Conor Gallagher
24 Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
25 The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916 by Conor Kostick and Lorcan Collins
26 The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth Century Transformation by David Dickson
27 Some of These Stories Are True by Maurice Devitt
28 Kepler by John Banville
29 In a Town of Five Thousand People by Frank McGuinness
30 Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
31 Legendary Ireland: Myths and Legends of Ireland by Eithne Massey
32 Charleston Under Siege: The Impregnable City by Douglas W. Bostick
33 Cloud Native: Using Containers, Functions and Data to Build Next-Generation Applications by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson & Peter Jausovec
34 The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins
35 Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self Control by Ryan Holiday
36 Les Animaux Fantastiques: Le Texte du Film by J. K. Rowling
37 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
38 Africa is not a Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
39 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
40 How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
41 We the Living by Ayn Rand
42 Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
43 Learning TypeScript: Enhance Your Web Development Skills Using Type Safe JavaScript by Josh Goldberg
44 Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
45 The Word Hord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
46 Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
47 The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh
48 Into the Unkown: The Exploration of Škocjan Caves by Borut Peric and Friedrich Müller
49 Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams, Fred D. Gray and David Fisher
50 Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
51 Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
52 Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
53 Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
54 Les Pensées de Pascal (L'autre) by Pascal Vincent
55 Ich bin keine Heldin: Mein langer Kampf für Gerechtigkeit by Carla Del Ponte
56 The Mindful Body by Ellen J. Langer
57 Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
58 Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
59 The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures by Erin Meyer
60 Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan by Alex Kerr
61 Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
62 Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor
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