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2024 DH Book Awards

Fav Fiction: Anna Karenina
Fav Nonfiction: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Honorable mentions: Why We Sleep (NF), Bad Blood (NF)

Comments:
-CRUSHED my reading goal so we upping it for 2025 B)
-Pretty Nonfiction heavy... more fiction next year!? Maybe.

Okay I usually don’t do book updates as I’m reading them but there are a couple things that are tickling my brain right now. They’ve cited Reddit and Quora like 4 times now. There’s just this general feeling that they are trying to argue this point by any means necessary, and while I believe that the big ideas of this book certainly have merit, there’s an over reliance on “anec-data”. Also North Dakota.

My opinion of this book very much remains the same. Feel a little bit like I'm just trying to finish it at this point. Enjoying it, just ready to move on to something else.

Progress is a bit embarrassing, but I've been sick the last few days and not that that is a good excuse but it's the best I got. I'm liking this book more than I thought, feel it offers several new things that weren't included in "can't hurt me". Still not convinced it's a must read. Also, ending some chapters ("evolutions") with # feels cringey though I see how it could be useful/cool.

Goggins baby. Super similar to "Can't Hurt me" at this juncture but I'm pretty early in. Also it feels like this book is very much catered to people who already listen to David Goggins. So me. HOORAH STAY HARD BABY GOGGINS ALL DAY MERRY CHRISTMAS MFER