Tag: books

• Ten Books

  In one of the latest and more enjoyable Facebook chain-statuses, I was asked which ten books have stayed with or touched me in some ways. Having spent a surprisingly large amount of time reflecting on and spelling out the significance of each book to my life thus far, I thought: why not share them here as well? So…

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  September 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Philosophy, Reading, Reason

  Black Swan, books, Camus, Catch-22, Etranger, Facebook, Harper Lee, Harry Potter, Hofstadter, Human Conduct, John Hospers, Joseph Heller, Khaled Hosseini, Kinsella, Laura Ingalls Wilder, list, Little House, Millennium Trilogy, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reading, Sartre, Shopaholic, Stieg Larsson, The Age of Reason, The Stranger, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Where Did All the Books Go?

  

  Whole books reduced to a character, a concept, an example… Good morning/afternoon/evening dear readers, I hope you’re well. More impertinently, I hope my absence has been missed. I’ve certainly missed writing for you, and I’d hate to think my affections one-sided. It has been a month since my last proper post (Labels). And, the writing-addict…

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  March 23, 2014

  Random, Reading, Self

  Anne Hathaway, Artemis Fowl, books, bookstore, brain, characters, child, childhood, children, existential crisis, fiction, Harry Potter, House, lessons, Life, Memory, non-fiction, pictures, reading, teenage, The Princess Diaries, tiles

• Reading a Book

  One fine Summer evening, in London. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it – Oscar Wilde

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  December 26, 2013

  Beer, Cities, Life, London, Nature, Photography, Reading, Self

  beer, Birra Moretti, black and white, books, Catch-22, chilling, Joseph Heller, Life, London, Oscar Wilde, parks, Photographs, Photography, Quotes, read, reading, Regents Park, Summer

• 13 Best Psychology & Philosophy Books of 2013 (again, according to Maria)

  Go here.

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  December 14, 2013

  Reading

  2013, books, brain pickings, Maria Popova, philosophy, Psychology, reading list

• 13 Best Science & Tech Books of 2013 (according to Maria)

  13 Best Science & Tech Books of 2013 (according to Maria) Ripped off Brainpickings, as per ush.

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  December 11, 2013

  Reading

  2013, books, brain pickings, Maria Popova, reading list, science, technology