Started: 2018-03-11 Finished: 2018-03-13 Imagine the school bum, mending his ways, becoming a success and then sharing his stories and experience. Well, that’s what this book is. A pithy summary for a pithy book. Punchy, wise and brief. Mark Manson is the Dale Carnegie for millenials. There are f*cks strewn galore, so if you’re not comfortable with such language, stay away.1 Here’s a few things, I took away from the book ...
Started: 2018-01-22 Finished: 2018-01-23 Tired of my daily humdrum, I decided to escape to Victorian London for a while, by reading all of my Sherlock Holmes. This time though, I was going to make notes! And then it dawned on me, that I already had a comprehensive set. I had, along with my copy of Peter Bevelin’s fantastic Seeking Wisdom, also purchased a copy of his A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. ...
Started: 2018-01-03 Finished: 2018-01-16 I’m Catholic and as a child, I was somehow naïvely proud that Christianity was the largest religion in the world. We were good people. We were morally superior. After all, we were the righteous chosen ones! Our crusades were what helped Christianity become foremost and widespread! All those knights in shining armour and all those devout folk went from their homes in Europe to battle the bad Muslims and conquer Jerusalem. It was stuff of heady, wild fantasy! ...
It’s a quake book. It manages to fit a hundred thousand years of human life, into less than five hundred pages, filled with history, wit & philosophy. Page for page, this is one of the most wisdomous books I’ve ever read. This is how I imagine, Yuval Noah Harari acknowledging my compliment Thoughts and Insights abound I read past, before the impact of a line, two pages ago blinds me ...
I might say that I read Meditations over and over, or that Morgan’s Run is the book that I love to lose myself in. But the truth is that the pages that I’ve read the most, the quotes that shake me up the most, the lessons that I’ve learnt from the most, are from The Little Prince. ...
Ok, so here goes. I’ve always wanted to do marginalia and notes and talk to myself and share all that with … someone like me, but younger I guess. I want to retain and understand and absorb, more of what I read. I want to come back to what I’ve written and see if it holds up And I want to read and osmosize1 more of what Vishal Khandelwal calls Supertexts. ...