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Carefully written. Scholarly, but certainly understandable to the public. This title was chosen for summer reading for all incoming first years at Princeton. You might say the author is preaching to the choir (me) on this topic, but I really have an interest in what a generation or two (or more) of us will miss if we do not reinforce long form reading as an intellectual mandate.

So many dead ends and blind alleys for those unable to find companionship. Dr. Soh walks through these areas with both compassion and common sense. I can appreciate her wanting to share all these facts from outside the sphere of academia, where notions can walk right past progressive positivity and into psychological damage and self-destructiveness. The theme of the book is fascinating.

Following the handful of stories. Waiting to see if some paths cross.

This post-apocalyptic tale has the human remnant choosing between life in violent tribes and life in religious cloisters, with the religion reflecting some true remnants of the pre-apocalypse alongside some creative building of the sacred from barely understood artifacts. The author effectively asks what is it that humans really need and want once the 21st century luxuries have been tripped away.

I am generally not a self-help guy, but undertook this book at the urging of a good friend. As a recent retiree, it is the right time to look at this. Every time I read through some cautionary tale about an ailment I already have, that is tough. But I think it is well worth continuing.

Plenty of detail, though I am having a little bit of a problem understanding the order of presentation. Really loving the roving details about things like Napoleon's spy network, his HQ setups in the field, how he followed topography and concentrated on enemy main body only and seeking not to attack head on or in long dressed lines. Flying columns! There is plenty left to read,,,

I just finished Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science. Try it. Even if it is the only book covering economics you ever read, you will be much better off than those who bail out after ECON 101. I liked that the book made clear what are questions for economics and what are questions outside of economics. Plus you get lots of case examples and a good supply of wit. No charts, no graphs!

This book is so in my wheelhouse. The Rise of the Nation State was my college minor, and it required quite a bit of 14th and 15th Century Florence. Library School Training certainly paid homage to the codex. This book just keeps getting better and better for the bibliophile. I expected nothing less of this distinguished author.