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Just finishing up last year's summer beach reading, "The Mammoth Book of Horror" Volume Sixteen. Short stories edited by Stephen Jones.
Looking through the list on Amazon to see which ones I haven't read yet. Short stories are perfect for the beach and horror is safest to read in the sunshine while people are having a good time. Scare me - but not too much! LOL
With DeSantis officially becoming a 2024 candidate, I decided to pick up The Courage to be Free, basically DeSantis' political autobiography.
I'm about 75% thru.. not bad. Not especially visionary in philosophic concepts, but a good accounting of his political career (especially his governorship). And he does a good job recounting his decisions during COVID, and describing how his approach (skeptical of Faucism) practically distinguished Florida from most other large states.
I finished Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. It was a five-star read for me. Great writing, well-drawn characters and subtle humor. Imminently readable and I'm sorry it's over.
Originally Posted by Thomas Sowell from A Personal Odyssey
One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he were a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to the medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of downtown Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors.
Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
As one can see from the above-quote, this is a gentleman who has no patience for convention or stupidity. This is an autobiography. What else can one say but that this man, and his autobiography, are exceptional? From dire rural poverty in North Carolina to the streets of ghetto New York, this man transformed himself from a (Stuyvesant) high school dropout to a Harvard and U. of Chicago Economics graduate. While hovering on the outskirts of public involvement, he has become a prolific author. His opinions are iconoclastic and unique, similar to an economist on the other side of the political spectrum, John Kenneth Galbraith.
"The Tiger-A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" by John Vaillant. Not only is the story line of the hunt for a man eating Siberian Tiger thrilling, but the detailed history of the people and wildlife of the Russian Far East was fascinating. Vaillant also goes into detail about everyday life in Russia after perestroika. Recommended.
How innate qualities of human nature make us universally susceptible to certain product advertising/marketing etc.
I'm on page 60.. it's ok so far. Most of Saad's insights just seem like common sense tho, not breaking research revelations.
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A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
