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by Nate
The Body is possibly Bill Bryson’s longest and most interesting reference book yet.
It’s in the same vein as A Short History of Nearly Everything and Home, but obviously immediately relevant to day to day life.
I had high expectations, and was not disappointed.
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Ever since 2007, I’ve kept track of every book I’ve read. Ideally, I’ve also written a short lessons learned or review of each – though I have hundreds of draft reviews that I need to just hit publish on. Here’s the books I’ve read this past year.
I generally stop reading a book after 100 pages if it’s not any good. So everything that I finished is generally worth reading in some way. I plan to do full reviews of all the books. If I’ve written one, there will be a link.
*all the links below go to Amazon for convenience, but I definitely recommend purchasing books from Alibris. They support local booksellers, and often have even better used pricing.
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Crazy River is one of the best travel books about Africa that I’ve ever read. It’s up there with Blood River and Dark Star Safari. And like both of those books, Richard Grant excels in going beyond the “I went from A to B to C” to using the journey to meet a cast of characters that provides real insight into the region.
He deliberately picks one of the most challenging routes possible – one of the few officially unmapped areas of the world left – and writes an engaging and entertaining travelogue.
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The Psychology of Money is a book about, well, the psychology behind money and personal finance. I picked it up after having read several essays by the author at Collaborative Fund – like this one. He’s an excellent writer and I thought I’d give it a shot.
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Kings of The Yukon is a travel book that doubles as an environmental history book. I read it mainly for my interest in travel books covering remote, wilderness areas, but was surprised by the depth of writing on salmon fisheries, indigenous cultures, and how much even the most remote parts of the world are changing in the 21st Century.
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Company of One is a unique business book. It’s about the what, why, and how of running a business for your sake rather than for growth’s sake. It’s about making a profit now rather than growing and making a profit later. It follows the similar vein of Anything You Want by Derek Sivers and Small Giants by Bo Burlingham and Enough by John Bogle.
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