Tag: must read
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BR331) “Stolen Focus” Book Review
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari. 5/5 rating. 283 pages. Book #47 of 2023. Read November 19, 2023. This has officially become one of my favorite books! Johann looks at the epidemic of failing attention throughout the world. If you talk to nearly anyone,…
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BR318) “The Least of Us” Book Review
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones. 4/5 rating. 390 pages. Book #34 of 2023. Read August 15, 2023. This book talks all about the US path from OxyContin to fentanyl, and finally meth: highlighting the lives of some users, people from…
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BR259) “The Overstory” Book Review
The Overstory by Richard Powers. 5/5 rating. 502 pages. Book #26 of 2022. Read June 7, 2022. This is an incredible novel about the intersecting stories of a small group of people and their discovery of awe for trees. The main characters include everything from a computer scientist, to a professional of trees (dendrologist), to…
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BR251) “The Color of Law” Book Review
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. 4/5 rating. 217 pages. Book #18 of 2022. Read April 3, 2022. This is one of the most disturbing books I have read in a long time. Richard does a phenomenal job of explaining the myriad of ways that…