Books add thoughts to an already cluttered mind and still I add to the mess. If I go completely insane, I want to be the smartest nut in the can.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Gift from the Sea (1991, Pantheon)
From inside flap-
"Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and …
I've got a bias on this and I know it. Worth four and a half stars but in an effort to show non-bias I rounded down rather than up.
Ingraham throws in a good deal of humor while describing those little nuances about small town life, Minnesotans and family. He accurately describes Winter in Minnesota.
He also adds in data, (data is his thing), about large cities versus small towns, commute times, home ownership, politics, guns as just another tool versus guns as a way of life, education and more interesting stuff, (data).
I believe this book is already required reading for Minnesotans, (to avoid the "Well isn't that something" reply when you say you haven't read it), but could also be useful for those outside the state.
He gets extra high marks from me for his shout out to Robert Putnams' book Bowling Alone which I believe should be …
I've got a bias on this and I know it. Worth four and a half stars but in an effort to show non-bias I rounded down rather than up.
Ingraham throws in a good deal of humor while describing those little nuances about small town life, Minnesotans and family. He accurately describes Winter in Minnesota.
He also adds in data, (data is his thing), about large cities versus small towns, commute times, home ownership, politics, guns as just another tool versus guns as a way of life, education and more interesting stuff, (data).
I believe this book is already required reading for Minnesotans, (to avoid the "Well isn't that something" reply when you say you haven't read it), but could also be useful for those outside the state.
He gets extra high marks from me for his shout out to Robert Putnams' book Bowling Alone which I believe should be REQUIRED reading for all civil servants, managers, leaders, urban developers and all those who want to make humanity better.
Starts off strong with promise and I was in total agreement with Kellys' views until the third principle of the best way to live. He proposed self-control, (1st & 2nd were become the best version of yourself & virtue).
First 80 pages offered some perspectives that are definitely worth your short reading time. The last sections of this long paper/short book detail building a structured plan that Kelly & company came up with.
An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of …
This book is a powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of …
"Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright …
Should have been worthy of a higher rating than I am giving. The basic story is there to identify a crisis of giving too much authority to an algorithm. This both helps, but also hinders, logical conclusions to in a messy world.
Compared to other issues going on in the world, and the fact that this will likely be the one and only book I will ever read on the subject, I feel this work is well beyond a working paper but a little light for a full fledged book.
Apologies to all who are offended by the personal opinion of some dumb guy living in a frozen land.
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the …
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is the third non-fiction book by …
