nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Knowledge is Power

BossArky

I try to read a book a week. I managed 53 in 2006. Lost my excel log during a laptop crash in 2007. Below is what I can remember having read so far this year. Haven't had as much time as I would have liked.

1) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks

2) Total Immersion The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier - Terry Laughlin, John Delves

3) Dubliners - James Joyce

4) The Dice Man - George Cockcroft

[In Progress] Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

[In Progress] The Third Policeman - Flann OBrien

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

BossArky

2021 - 2) Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With: Why bitcoin will be the next global reserve currency - Jason A. Williams.

Very good read on Bitcoin and currencies in general.

BossArky

2021 - 3) Born Standing Up - Steve Martin.

This was recommended by Jerry Seinfeld and thus I'd been trying to get hold of it for a while. An interesting quick read - but lacking the depth I was expecting. Got through it in about a day.

BossArky

2021 - 4) Girt: The Unauthorized History of Australia - David Hunt

A satirical history of Australia.

BossArky

2021 - 5) My First Guide to Bitcoin - Andrew O'Neil.

Quick overview of Bitcoin.

BossArky

2021 - 6) Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths.

Quite good.

BossArky

2021 - 7) Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive - Kevin Horsley.

Very much enjoyed this. Lots of good memory tools & techniques.

BossArky

2021 - 8) How to Defend Australia - Hugh White.

Military strategy.

BossArky

2021 - 9) Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future - Rory Medcalf.

Solid overview of the region and players past, present & potentially future.

BossArky

2021 - 10) Smashed Avocado: How I Cracked the Property Market and You Can Too - Nicole Haddow

Australian property.

BossArky

2021 - 11) Not Nice (Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, And Unapologetically Being Yourself ) - Aziz Gazipura

This was quite long winded as you can see from the sub title above. Picked up some good nuggets amongst the long and winding narrative though. Book could easily have been 25% the length.

BossArky

2021 - 12) AWS Certified: The Complete Guide for Master Your Exam: AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Guide (CLF-C01) and Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) - Neville Dawson

This was terrible. Author copy/paste the whole thing as a disjointed & badly misspelt rewording.

BossArky

2021 - 13) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Training Notes 2021: Fast-track your exam - Neal Davis.

This book was much better than the previous one above. Concise & well organized with enough practice exam questions to prepare you.

BossArky

2021 - 14) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein.

Re-read this classic for the first time in over 25 years. It actually moves much faster than I remember. One minute they are having tea and cakes in Hobbiton... the next they are half way to Murkwood.

BossArky

2021 - 15) Kensukes Kingdom - Michael Murpurgo

This kind of reminded me of a cross between Lord of the Flies and Life of Pi. Simpler than both. Nice tale.

BossArky

2021 - 16) Blood & Oil - Bradley Hope.

Current affairs.

BossArky

2021 - 17) Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson.

This was quite interesting. I had put off reading it for a while as thought it would be a bit dated. Isaacson can always portray the subject in an entertaining & digestible fashion.

BossArky

2021 - 18) Horrible Science: Bulging Brains - Nick Arnold.

So good.

BossArky

2021 - 19) Horrible Science: Vicious Veg - Nick Arnold.

A bit tougher going that the previous read above. Funny nonetheless.

BossArky

2021 - 20) Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson.

DNA, RNA and all things & personalities related to BioChemistry & Genetic Engineering. Good read. A bit heavy going initially with all the Biology and Chemistry. Picked up pace after about 33%.

BossArky

2021 - 21) The Naked Millionaire - David Taylor.

Thought this might be a good motivational financial planning book. Quite generic. Not the best.

BossArky

2021 - 22) Idea Man - Paul Allen.

A memoir from the co-founder of Microsoft. A quick and well written read. First half focused on Microsoft and the second more on investments and projects since then.

BossArky

2021 - 23) Starbucked - Taylor Clark.

Interesting read on both the company and coffee industry.

BossArky

2021 - 24) De Gaulle - Aidan Crawley.

Good bio. A bit dated.

BossArky

2021 - 25) Before Hiroshima: A history of the fall of Hong Kong and Singapore and the aftermath during World War II - Jacqueline Jeynes

A collection of short snippets stuck together it seems.

BossArky

2021 - 26) With Freedom to Singapore - Oswald Wellington Gilmour.

Insightful view into Singapore 1945-1950 post end of WW2.

BossArky

2021 - 27) Memoir of a Nerd: Humorous Essays and Short Stories - Hank Mancini.

Enjoyed this - especially "practice makes perfect" which was about a random girl he met camping in Yosemite and then never saw her again.

BossArky

2021 - 28) 50 Cent - A candid bio of self-made hustler - JJ Vance.

Not sure why I read this. It just happened to be convenient at the time. Not the best written bio.

BossArky

2021 - 29) The Black Sheep Rebel Girl Rises Again: Whimsical Tales and Truthful Lies - Rachel Hutcheson.

Again not sure why I read this. Convenient at the time. The writing style is not my thing. Too much magical realism/fantasy/daydream.

BossArky

2021 - 30) Lost Horses - Mark Saha.

A collection of short stories involving horses. Better than it sounds. Really well written.

BossArky

2021 - 31) Papa Hemingway - A.E. Hotchner.

Just finished book after a couple months as was reading it amongst some shorter ones listed above. Melancholy ending looking at photos of the things he did in his life and how he got to that end state. Worth the read if you are interested in Hemmingway or just generally a fully lived life.