Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe BidenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Review: Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe BidenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Review: The Moon Is Down
The Moon Is Down by John SteinbeckMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A novella that economically tells the story of a small coal-mining town occupied by Nazi German forces. Humanizing vignettes explore the points of view of overlords and conquered during a chain of events that leads to final, (suicidal?) retaliation by the townspeople.
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
Review: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas TalebMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
More Taleb wry and enlightening observations with belittling, crude attacks. (What is this about slamming someone as "low-testosterone"?) He-man risk assessor Taleb really takes aim at the worst aspects of the unfair American capitalism in this book, using as an example Hank Paulson who as an Goldman Sachs banker made millions and as United States Secretary of the Treasury during the U.S. government economic bailout of 2008 transferred taxpayer wealth to the institutions that caused the problems...
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Review: The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy
The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy by Seymour FisherMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A weighty tome, about a thousand pages, on more than just the female sexual response. Gross female sexual psychology as elicited from numerous studies is poured over. Entirely enlightening, I recommend this to serious readers of either sex. There is even a good deal of child and interpersonal psychology to be had.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Review: Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan AllenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The primaries for the 2020 election before Biden secured the Democratic nomination over his closest rival Sanders was competitive overwhelming for being the largest field of candidates for any political party in the modern era of American politics. One of this candidates, Senator Kamala Harris from California, became the first African-American, first Asian-American, and third female vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. The general election itself was much closer than the electoral college results suggest. This detailed study does a great job making engaging and enlightening all the twists and turns of lucky breaks for Joe as his party's base recoiled from radicalism and opted for the comforting centrist. Biden often proclaims a close relationship with Obama and this study suggests from Obama's words and actions how that is not an accurate assessment, which is among the more interesting points made here, to me.
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Review: Cult of the Immortal: Mummies and the Ancient Egyptian Way of Death
Cult of the Immortal: Mummies and the Ancient Egyptian Way of Death by Ange-Pierre LecaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Fascinating, detailed examination of Egyptian ancestor worship from the Osiris rights of antiquity to Ptolemaic mass mummification. The writing is lively and engaging and there are plenty of illustrations, maps, and images. There are detailed steps through the mummification rights and the millennia of religious changes and political shifts relevant to the practice. I especially like the chapter debunking the more magical beliefs to have spread from miracle tomb contents to curses.
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