Book Reviews of 2024

'Tis always good to think critically about that which our minds ingest. As for quite a few years now, my goal for 2024 is to read 50 books. I'll post links to blogs reacting to literature below.


๐Ÿ‘ 1 Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement by Roy A. Meals
๐Ÿ‘ 2 Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uygur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
- 3 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
๐Ÿ‘ 4 The Spiral Staircase: A Memoir by Karen Armstrong
๐Ÿ‘Ž 5 Schwyzerdรผtsch fรผr Anfanger: Die 2500 wichtigsten Wรถrter, Helvetismen und Redensarten (2020 Ausgabe) by Ruth Troxler and Thomas Gsteiger
- 6 We Need to Talk About Xi: What We Need to Know About the World's Most Powerful Leader by Michael Dillon
- 7 Chip War: The Fight For the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
๐Ÿ‘ 8 Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm
- 9 Roald Amundsens dagbรธker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910-12 by Roald Amundsen
๐Ÿ‘ 10 รœber die Heiterkeit in schwierigen Zeiten und die Frage, wie wichtig uns der Ernst des Lebens sein sollte by Axel Hacke
๐Ÿ‘Ž 11 Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramoviฤ‡ and James Kaplan
๐Ÿ‘ 12 A Concise History of Bosnia by Cathie Carmichael
๐Ÿ‘ 13 Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergoviฤ‡
- 14 A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
๐Ÿ‘ 15 The Way of Nagomi: Live more harmoniously the Japanese way by Ken Mogi
๐Ÿ‘ 16 Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage and Zhamak Deghani
๐Ÿ‘Ž 17 Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney
๐Ÿ‘ 18 The Racketeer by John Grisham
๐Ÿ‘Ž 19 Nachtblaue Blumen by Alexander Kambers
๐Ÿ‘ 20 Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
๐Ÿ‘Ž 21 Ce Monde Est Tout Ce Que Nous Avons: ร€ la recherche de la paix intรฉriure et extรฉrieure by Thich Nhat Hanh
๐Ÿ‘ 22 Sensitive: The hidden power of the highly sensitive person in a loud, fast, too-much world by Jenn Granneman and Andre Sรณlo
๐Ÿ‘ 24 Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
๐Ÿ‘ 25 Radical Candor: How to get what you want by saying what you mean by Kim Scott
๐Ÿ‘ 26 The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
๐Ÿ‘Ž 27 Nationalism, Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia: Antecedents of the DIssolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia by Velko Vujaฤiฤ‡
- 28 Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich
๐Ÿ‘ 29 Night by Elie Wiesel
๐Ÿ‘ 30 Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre
๐Ÿ‘ 31 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- 32 Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday
๐Ÿ‘ 33 Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke
๐Ÿ‘ 34 Antarctica by Claire Keegan
๐Ÿ‘Ž 35 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
๐Ÿ‘ 36 Twelve Trees and what they tell usabout our past, present and future by Daniel Lewis
- 37 The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of the World by Tim Marshall
๐Ÿ‘ 38 Die With Zero: Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
๐Ÿ‘ 39 Ancient Mosiacs of Stobi by Mishko Tutkovski
๐Ÿ‘ 40 Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanos by Clive Oppenheimer
๐Ÿ‘ 41 Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
๐Ÿ‘ 42 Kaizen: The Japanese Method for Transforming Habits One Small Step at a Time by Sarah Harvey
๐Ÿ‘Ž 43 Chopin's Birthplace by Maciej Janicki et al.
๐Ÿ‘ 43 Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health by Daniel Lieberman
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