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Joseph Quigley

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finished reading Light Bringer by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #6)

Pierce Brown: Light Bringer (Hardcover, 2023, Del Rey)

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the …

Not my favorite book in the series, but has a lot of closure. I’m a little disappointed it wasn’t the last one though. Looking forward to the finale, but I sure hope it’s not dragged out to 8 books.

Peter Attia, Bill Gifford: Outlive (2023, Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale)

A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on …

Really useful, actionable, and perspective-shifting

This book should pass the test of time, even if some of the specific treatments, routines and advice will likely be outdated in 5-20 years. The goal to live (and the methods to achieve) a rich and active life that you can enjoy in your 80s and 90s is something that most health books don't even consider.

The chapter about Peter's mental health made the book stand out amongst similar "here's how to be healthy" books.

Chögyam Trungpa: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973, Shambhala Publications)

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chögyam Trungpa is a book addressing many common pitfalls of …

Couldn't finish it. Probably because its time is not yet ready, but the advice/perspectives were still helpful.

Ed Yong: An Immense World (2022, Penguin Random House)

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …

I really enjoyed reading how animals “see” and “feel” things that aren’t vision or touch. The author did a great job of trying to convey what it’s like to be an electric fish who can sense the electric fields around them and “see” omni directionally, to the experience of being a bat adjusting frequencies of sonar to adjust for the doppler effect, so that its brain perceives the same ultrasound “picture”.

Krispin Mayfield: Attached to God (2022, Zondervan)

Review of 'Attached to God' on 'Goodreads'

The attachment explanations were great, but the last half of the book was a "here's how to fix your relationship with God. Just do x, y, z". Its post-attachment-style advice is pretty bog-standard rosy evangelical self-help.