Finished reading (2021): The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 📚
Sobering, resonant, finite.
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Finished reading (2021): Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
A very helpful book to start the year. Overarchingly good, even great; final chapters are a bit contradictory and dissatisfying, though the tools in the appendix are solid.
On the “attention economy” of social media et al.: “It’s essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong decisions about what to do with your attention, and therefore with your finite life…”
Yup.
Finished reading (2021): The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa 📚
“There is something about this mountain, this painting, this tree, we tend to say, and this something can make demands on us.”
Finished reading (2021): One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle 📚
Simply and purely enjoyable all the way through.
Finished reading (2021): The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 📚
About as interesting as I’d hoped it would be; more disappointing than I expected. As MacIntyre put it, “Doubting is a more complex activity than some skeptics have realized.”
Currently Reading: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 📚
Gotta love headings like this!
Finished reading (2021): Crossroads: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen 📚
Loved the book. Wonderfully written. But I also had a few thoughts, which I wrote down here.