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Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on May 28, 2012 9:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by Umbra on Oct 17, 2012 22:51:13 GMT -5
Botchan.
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Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on Oct 23, 2012 18:53:22 GMT -5
Are you reading that in English or Japanese? It's on my to-read list.
As far as Soseki goes, I've read Kokoro.
Right now I'm reading Mort by Terry Pratchett.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Jul 25, 2013 13:41:58 GMT -5
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn.
(For the record, I don't have a problem with binge eating... just like reading psychology books. I have similar self-help guides for a lot of disorders I don't have.)
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Post by Umbra on Aug 14, 2013 23:09:15 GMT -5
Remembering the Kanji: Volume 1 by James Heisig. I this is more like a textbook than a book, so I'm working through it as opposed to just reading through it (And will at it for a while). Most of the stories I've come across so far are meh--I either make my own stories up or use some created by other people on the Koohii website.
I didn't expect to have so much fun with this. Although, I have a feeling that feeling may change over time, we'll see.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Aug 15, 2013 6:43:58 GMT -5
The Qur'an.
Can't really spend two weeks in a Muslim country and not get at least a little interested in learning more about Islam.
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Post by Hiro the Half-Elf on Jan 13, 2014 6:11:42 GMT -5
Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall.
The former is something my partner picked up, but it's really very fascinating. I had an idea of how the pharmaceutical industry was messed up before, but this is really way over the top. On the other hand, the author manages to keep himself grounded in reality, not least of all because everything is lovingly cited and hyperlinked and he's tried to provide open sources whenever possible.
The latter is a nice change of pace from my usual sort of detective novel- both temperamentally and geographically. And, while it might be expected to treat Africa with a pretty awful imperialist brush, McCall shows real understanding of the people he's writing about. If it's romantic, it might just be because the people in the book are romantics.
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Post by AokiShizuku on May 1, 2014 6:24:01 GMT -5
Log Horizon. It's not a manga so... I shall post it here! I recently got the first 7 volumes and I'm starting straight from the beginning! I've seen the anime and basically read all the spoilers up to volume 7 but I thought why not actually read it. I'm really liking everything about the series.
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Post by Youngster Joey on May 18, 2014 12:35:21 GMT -5
I've been on a reading binge as of late! Started and finished in the past week or two: What Do I Say: The Therapist's Guide to Answering Client Questions. I don't know why I read this, given that it's meant for new therapists just starting out in the field. I am not a therapist, nor do I have any interest in being one. But it was a good read anyway!
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's - I've wanted to read this for years, as I really like the guy who wrote it, John Elder Robison. Unfortunately, I liked it a lot less than I thought I would. While it wasn't bad per se, it was... well, boring? Crazy intelligent guy to be sure, but his writing style was exceedingly dry, almost to the point of being clinical. I felt the same way about fellow autistics Temple Grandin and Daniel Tammet's autobiographies, too.
Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us. I agreed with basically everything this book said in theory, but I didn't like the book anyway. Too pop science-y. Needed less anecdotes and more hard science.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. Martin Seligman wrote this, so it was, unlike Diet Cults, chock full of scientific studies. Didn't really teach me anything new, though. Felt like a really long justification of Aaron Beck's cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. Amazing book. It's been a very, very, very long time since I read a book I enjoyed so thoroughly. I'd gladly re-read it several times over. I don't relate to most of her experiences, but it doesn't matter--you don't need to. You're not an observer watching a story unfold as the reader is in most memoirs; you're the participant--you're her--as her torturous life story unfolds. You don't ever need to perspective-take--she explains herself so articulately, so beautifully, so intensely, so powerfully, that you feel every raw emotion and every tortured thought on the page as if it were your own.
I'm reading Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined by Scott Barry Kaufman right now. Really well-known psychologist who challenges the traditional conceptualization of intelligence.
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Jun 6, 2015 12:35:16 GMT -5
I just finished reading Metro 2033 in finnish and now started reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, in english. It's my first book written by Gaiman and got to admit, his writing style is really similar to Pratchett's.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Apr 17, 2016 18:12:43 GMT -5
I just finished NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, which I had started back in August and dropped due to life with about a hundred pages left to go.
Good book. Autism and the neurodiveristy movement aren't new to me, but the history of autism and Asperger's, particularly in regards to its entanglement with the Nazis, is pretty interesting.
I also bought/finished First-Time Managers yesterday. I don't manage anyone at work, but it was a pretty interesting read anyway.
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Post by sukotsuto on Apr 18, 2016 0:32:08 GMT -5
After years of barely reading any books, it's strange that I prefer to spend my leisure time sitting down and reading now. And boy, I've been binge reading everything I can get my hands on about the American Civil War (and something not related to ACW to give myself a break every now and then from the subject). With that said... Recently finished reading: The Civil War: A Narrative Vol. 1 The Civil War: A Narrative Vol. 2 The Army of Tennessee Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy Currently reading: Clouds of Glory: The Life of Robert E Lee The Civil War: A Narrative Vol.3 The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest Tobacco: A Cultural History Any other American Civil War nuts here?
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