“All Tomorrows,” while not a traditional novel, gave me a better perspective on humanity vs man.
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
I can’t look at supply chain, technology, EVs, phones, etc the same. Extremely relevant these days
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Hermetica Brian Copenhaver
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Native Nations by Kathleen Duval
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
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The Magus by John Fowles. It’s literary fiction. Read it for the first time when I was 24. Raced through it in a couple of days (and it’s a long book). Finished it in the middle of the night, slept fitfully for a couple of hours and woke up so depressed I could no longer live in it that I started over from the beginning. This has only happened to me once.
I turned 60 last year, and I’ve now read it about 20 times. I’ve read thousands of books, this is my all time favourite – it has everything: love story, travel, enigmas, history, philosophy …
Don’t want to say too much about the plot, so I’ll just leave you with the last sentences of part one:
“I did not think about the future. In spite of what the doctor at the clinic had said I felt certain that the cure would fail. The pattern of destiny seemed clear: down and down, and down.
But then the mysteries began.”
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone. It was written in 2025 and follows five families in Atlanta looking for housing and work. It highlights the effects of gentrification, extended stay hotel practices and how the “working homeless” are often left out of statics. It also looked at predatory leasing practices too. I found it fascinating to read. I recall areas of Atlanta mentioned in the books that were being developed when I left that area. Reading the effects on people was an eye opener.
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Momo by Michael Ende.
It reminds me to value time and to enjoy the little things/ moments.
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Hairy Maclary From Donaldsons Dairy by Lynley Dodd. From what I have been told it had a major impact on me and I have grown up a lot since then.
Also after reading it to my nieces over and over. I feel it is permanently burnt into my brain.
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
sort of a mea culpa written by a guy who was part of the American soft power growth engine during the late cold war. explains how he would go into a country, project crazy growth with the right investment, government borrows money from IMF and hires american construction (bechtel for example) and is under the debt wing
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First book I ever read on my own. (I was very young)
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“All Tomorrows,” while not a traditional novel, gave me a better perspective on humanity vs man.
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
I can’t look at supply chain, technology, EVs, phones, etc the same. Extremely relevant these days
Hermetica Brian Copenhaver
Native Nations by Kathleen Duval
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
The Magus by John Fowles. It’s literary fiction. Read it for the first time when I was 24. Raced through it in a couple of days (and it’s a long book). Finished it in the middle of the night, slept fitfully for a couple of hours and woke up so depressed I could no longer live in it that I started over from the beginning. This has only happened to me once.
I turned 60 last year, and I’ve now read it about 20 times. I’ve read thousands of books, this is my all time favourite – it has everything: love story, travel, enigmas, history, philosophy …
Don’t want to say too much about the plot, so I’ll just leave you with the last sentences of part one:
“I did not think about the future. In spite of what the doctor at the clinic had said I felt certain that the cure would fail. The pattern of destiny seemed clear: down and down, and down.
But then the mysteries began.”
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone. It was written in 2025 and follows five families in Atlanta looking for housing and work. It highlights the effects of gentrification, extended stay hotel practices and how the “working homeless” are often left out of statics. It also looked at predatory leasing practices too. I found it fascinating to read. I recall areas of Atlanta mentioned in the books that were being developed when I left that area. Reading the effects on people was an eye opener.
Momo by Michael Ende.
It reminds me to value time and to enjoy the little things/ moments.
Hairy Maclary From Donaldsons Dairy by Lynley Dodd. From what I have been told it had a major impact on me and I have grown up a lot since then.
Also after reading it to my nieces over and over. I feel it is permanently burnt into my brain.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
sort of a mea culpa written by a guy who was part of the American soft power growth engine during the late cold war. explains how he would go into a country, project crazy growth with the right investment, government borrows money from IMF and hires american construction (bechtel for example) and is under the debt wing
First book I ever read on my own. (I was very young)
Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell
Did you know girls could be strong too?