A Mid Summer Knight’s Dream… Fresh off last week’s review of Grave Peril, I’m going to review Summer Knight. This book is very much a building block for a lot of the faerie-type storylines in the future, and thus, a major cornerstone of the Dresden Files universe to date. The fae stuff builds slowly, over the course of this book,… Read more »
Oh boy: I’m excited about writing this review. While I’m not sure I can say this is my favorite Dresden book, this is where the series really, truly starts to pick up: Grave Peril is where the over-arching story of the series so far starts, and it also introduces my absolute favorite character in the series: Michael Carpenter, Knight of… Read more »
After playing through the second (but not first or third) Witcher games, I was interested in the world the game was built in. It was incredibly immersive and well-designed, and felt like it had a real solid bedrock. Imagine my surprise to learn it was based on a series of books, the first of which is The Last Wish. Apparently… Read more »
When I first got into the Dresden Files I went through most of them pretty quickly; we’re talking, I finished twelve of them inside of three weeks. That’s more than a book every two days and a lot of that was me languishing in the first book. Storm Front was great but didn’t capture me the way the latter books… Read more »
Today I’m going to briefly review Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition, by Dr. Robert Cialdini. There’s a reason Cialdini is the man Scott Adams refers to as the Godzilla of persuasion, and regularly recommends his book (see the Scott Adams Persuasion Reading List here): Cialdini literally wrote the book on persuasion. Influence is that book, the foundation upon… Read more »
During a glance around the Amazon pages for hardboiled and/or detective novels, I came across a few gems I felt the need to put on my reading list. After having finished my more serious, real-world reviews (How to Fail at Almost Everything, Art of the Deal, Gorilla Mindset, and MAGA Mindset), I decided to finish up another bit of fiction… Read more »
When I first read this book, I took a few notes/made a few bookmarks in order to make sure I remembered everything I wanted to cover. But then I found I needed more notes, because I hadn’t adequately prepared myself — so I thought I’d skim. Several times, I found myself reading entire chapters again when all I meant to… Read more »
Just in time for the inauguration, I finished Trump’s first book, Trump: The Art of the Deal, which is a fascinating read — even, or perhaps especially, if you aren’t a fan of the man. Anyone who has read this book should not be surprised in the least by the way Trump ran his campaign because he ran it the… Read more »
Lately I’ve been trying to write the reviews for all the books I’ve been reading, and finish up the ones I intend to review in the future — so they can go on the endless queue. But, I have some struggles with writing the reviews — I don’t like to feel like I’m summarizing too much, but I also don’t… Read more »
After reviewing MAGA Mindset, I decided it was time to re-read and write a proper review of Gorilla Mindset. Since reading this book, I often catch myself talking about being in the “right mindset” on nearly every topic: be it programming (because, that’s my day job), or just general life. It’s been a real eye-opener on a lot of behaviors… Read more »