What books are you reading this weekend? Any topic counts!
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156 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 30 Mar
Took Debt by David Groeber from the bookshelf.
https://m.stacker.news/24054
It will take me some weeks though.
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151 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 30 Mar
From Bacteria to Bach and Back : The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GoW0qlSIL._SL1200_.jpg
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 30 Mar
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71y5RG8XkTL._SY466_.jpg
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238 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 30 Mar
I opened up A Confederacy Of Dunces to see if it's still as funny as I thought it was 40 years ago.
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307 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 30 Mar
Which contains this paragon of business writing:
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 30 Mar
I'm glad to know my younger self had a sense of humor.
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 30 Mar
IJR = role model for young Elvis.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 30 Mar
Someday, I will conclude a letter with "Yours in anger."
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 30 Mar
https://m.stacker.news/24102
Erm even though it contains cookie-cutter stories that probably won’t leave an impression on me, I’m still reading it because it’s something I can easily get through during my lunch period at work haha
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 30 Mar
Wrapping Up Napoleon Hill's Book, Outwitting the Devil, The Secret of Freedom and Success.
"Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich . This powerful tale has never been published, considered too controversial by his family and friends.
Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed."
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 30 Mar
Lately I started to read Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC 30 Mar
Just finished Winter Swimming by Susanna Soberg and now am about halfway through What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney.
Both books dive into the concept of environmental hormesis, especially in the form of deliberate cold exposure.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 30 Mar
The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
The author, Simon Shuster, had known Zelensky before the war when he was a comedian and due to their friendship gained access to his inner circle. Shuster spent almost the entire first year of the war with Zelensky and is able to describe how this war had changed him and explain in crazy detail how close Russia was able to get at multiple points early on.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 30 Mar
Here is a great one, let’s face it, few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs--more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation.
https://m.stacker.news/24130
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 30 Mar
When Money Dies, excellent book about hyperinflation. Maybe everybody here already read it though.
Within the book was also hidden a good movie, The Joyless Street, available on archives.org. I highly recommend it, it shows Austria during the same period.
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