Opening the door of your heart and other Buddhist tales of happiness by Ajahn Brahm This book contains 108 tales, many of them retellings of old fables and teaching parables, some others personal, which illustrate Buddhist fundamental teachings. A talkative tortoise gets a chance to fly by holding on to a stick held by swans. …
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Oct 01
Book Review: On Second Thought
On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits by Wray Herbert I’ve read so much pop science on neurology that I’m always skeptical that a book will surprise and delight me with new information, and I’m delighted to say that this book does. Herbert wins by focusing on heuristics, an important idea that is usually …
Sep 27
Book Review: The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker I liked this book so much that I’m going to buy a copy of it and make my favorite girls read it. In fact, I may read it a second time, just to glean some more information out of it. …
Sep 18
Book Review: The Magician King
The Magician King by Lev Grossman I have mixed feelings about this book. In some ways it’s a stupendous literary achievement. In other ways, it’s a thought problem of what would happen in real life if you min-maxed to get intelligence modifiers by using charisma as a dump stat. Or, to clarify for those of …
Sep 16
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Horizon (#4)
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold This is the fourth book of the series, and the conclusion. Really for truly the conclusion, which gets it big points in my ledger. As a whole I think this series is well worth reading. While the worldbuilding wasn’t vastly creative, it was different enough that it didn’t bore me. …