Book Reviews of 2025

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'Tis always good to think critically about that which our minds ingest. As for quite a few years now, my goal for 2025 is to read 50 books. I'll post links to blogs reacting to literature below.

👍 1 War by Bob Woodward
👍 2 World Religions: Eastern Traditions by Willard G. Oxtoby
- 3 Istanbul: A Tale of Threee Cities by Bettany Hughes
👍 4 Skjerm Barna: Hvordan teknologien tok over barndommen og hva vi kan gjøre for å ta leken og livet tilbake by Maja Lunde
👍 5 The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
👍 6 Kaput: The End of the German Miracle by Wolfgang Münchau
👍 7 Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov
👍 8 Lisbon Poets by Luís de Camões, Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Florbela Espanca, Fernando Pessoa
👎 9 A Concise History of Portugal by David Birmingham
👍 10 House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou
👍 11 Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
- 12 Coronation Festivities / Krönungsfeierlichkeiten Bratislava/Preßburg 1563 - 1830 by Štefan Holčik, Jana Luková, and ZuZana Francová
👍 13 Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
👍 14 The Celts from Bratislava / Kelten aus Bratislava by Igor Bazovský et al.
- 15 Pivo: Za Císaře Pána by Pavel Scheufler
👎 16 The Vegetarian by Han Kang
👍 17 Echo of Worlds by M. R. Carey
👍 18 Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert R. Updegraff
👍 19 Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money by Diccon Bewes
- 20 Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
👍 21 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
- 22 The Carolingian Age in the Carpathian Basin by Béla Miklós Szőke
👍 23 The Little Book of Ikigai: Live a Happy and Long Life the Japanese Way by Ken Mogi
👍 24 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
👍 25 The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia
- 26 Playing With Reality: How Games Shape Our World by Kelly Clancy
👎 27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
👍 28 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
👍 29 The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt
👍 30 Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
👍 31 Castles Around the Baltic Sea
👍 32 Frauenburg by Christofer Herrmann
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