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Jake Kapp, John Zeratsky: Make Time (Paperback, 2018, Bantam Press) 4 stars

Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, 'The best way to spend this …

As usual for me, the first book for the year to read is some quick personal development thing. This books is mostly the list of strategies/tactics on how to work on your most important things, how to deal with distractions and how to increase your energy to work more effectively (they call these three principles: Highlight, Laser, Energizer). Most of the things I already read elsewhere, so solid refresher. Everything is about implementation of course.

Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing (EBook, 2019, Doubleday) 5 stars

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast …

It is a well-researched story of the Northern Ireland Troubles period, focusing mostly on the IRA side. Quite a lot of space is devoted towards reflecting on post-conflict reconciliation (or the impossibility of it) and what happens to fighters when peace comes. I waited a couple of years to read the book, not disappointed.