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Chat Thread 2023 Annual Self-Evaluations due Friday, January 12 at noon

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I know @mako1331 and @TownieDeac couldn't post their reading lists the past year - it'd be like 30 pages. I'd still like to see if if they have it.

Anyone else have a list of books they read in 2023?

2023
American Psychosis
How to argue with a racist
How to talk so that little kids will listen
Sapiens
The Fountainhead
Fire and Fury
Being mortal
Demon Copperhead
Once an Eagle
Leaders eat last
Coddling of the American mind
Good to great
The five love languages (reread)
Into thin air
The magic of tidying up Marie Kondo

My favorites in that list were: The Coddling of the American Mind (probs the second most important book I've ever read), Being Mortal (everyone who has parents should read this book), Demon Copperhead, and Once an Eagle.

Some of those books weren't great. Leaders Eat Last felt reductive and just kinda reiterated a lot of pop ideas. Sapiens was one of the worst books I've ever read, and the science behind it is suspect at best.
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
I know @mako1331 and @TownieDeac couldn't post their reading lists the past year - it'd be like 30 pages. I'd still like to see if if they have it.

Anyone else have a list of books they read in 2023?

2023
American Psychosis
How to argue with a racist
How to talk so that little kids will listen
Sapiens
The Fountainhead
Fire and Fury
Being mortal
Demon Copperhead
Once an Eagle
Leaders eat last
Coddling of the American mind
Good to great
The five love languages (reread)
Into thin air
The magic of tidying up Marie Kondo

My favorites in that list were: The Coddling of the American Mind (probs the second most important book I've ever read), Being Mortal (everyone who has parents should read this book), Demon Copperhead, and Once an Eagle.

Some of those books weren't great. Leaders Eat Last felt reductive and just kinda reiterated a lot of pop ideas. Sapiens was one of the worst books I've ever read, and the science behind it is suspect at best.
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Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Flowers on the Moon - Billy Chapata
Atomic Habits - James Clear
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham
City of Orange - David Yoon
The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Harry Potter 1-6 (reading out loud with the kids, my first time and I'm loving it!)
 
06deacon said:
IMO running in the cold sucks for about 200yds then it’s fine (assuming you’re dressed properly for it).

Now eyeing next week…that is going to be cold. Looking forward to 16 degrees!
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Yeah. May utilize my Planet Fitness membership to full capacity next week. Cold air in the lungs always has be coughing a couple hours after the run though.
 
Donkey Deac Doug said:
I know @mako1331 and @TownieDeac couldn't post their reading lists the past year - it'd be like 30 pages. I'd still like to see if if they have it.

Anyone else have a list of books they read in 2023?

2023
American Psychosis
How to argue with a racist
How to talk so that little kids will listen
Sapiens
The Fountainhead
Fire and Fury
Being mortal
Demon Copperhead
Once an Eagle
Leaders eat last
Coddling of the American mind
Good to great
The five love languages (reread)
Into thin air
The magic of tidying up Marie Kondo

My favorites in that list were: The Coddling of the American Mind (probs the second most important book I've ever read), Being Mortal (everyone who has parents should read this book), Demon Copperhead, and Once an Eagle.

Some of those books weren't great. Leaders Eat Last felt reductive and just kinda reiterated a lot of pop ideas. Sapiens was one of the worst books I've ever read, and the science behind it is suspect at best.
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Mine is very short.
2023
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leftcoastdeac said:
Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Flowers on the Moon - Billy Chapata
Atomic Habits - James Clear
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham
City of Orange - David Yoon
The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Harry Potter 1-6 (reading out loud with the kids, my first time and I'm loving it!)
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A. Fucking awesome list. Were Broken Horses and Warlock any good?

B. I may have posted this before, but in response to your Harry Potter reread: Your mother is so fat that the sorting hat put her in the Waffle House. <3
 
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leftcoastdeac said:
Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Flowers on the Moon - Billy Chapata
Atomic Habits - James Clear
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham
City of Orange - David Yoon
The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Harry Potter 1-6 (reading out loud with the kids, my first time and I'm loving it!)
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I love Stephen Graham
 
I’m afraid my 2023 reading list is pretty much limited to the lesser half of the Stephen King catalog (basically whatever was at my library on kindle book that I hadn’t read yet) although there were still good stories in there. Also demon copperhead (like all of us sought to read)

Later in 2023 I read two history books about WWI as it had recently occurred to me I knew embarrassingly little (to me) about the circumstances of that war. Third in process now. Also limited to what my library has for kindle.

Also bought and read Geddy Lee’s memoir quickly as a Christmas present to myself bc rush fuckin rocks
 
YoungBuck95 said:
don’t let biff see this!!

it’s quicker for me to bike to work than it is to drive too
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My commute is less than two miles, likely partially along the same road that 06deacon is talking about, and I know for a fact I can get here faster in a car, as I have done it on a bike. I also generally commute at slightly off peak hours. and riding on the sidewalk when traffic is moving is dangerous and a butthole move. But thanks.
 
06deacon said:
I’m afraid my 2023 reading list is pretty much limited to the lesser half of the Stephen King catalog (basically whatever was at my library on kindle book that I hadn’t read yet) although there were still good stories in there. Also demon copperhead (like all of us sought to read)

Later in 2023 I read two history books about WWI as it had recently occurred to me I knew embarrassingly little (to me) about the circumstances of that war. Third in process now. Also limited to what my library has for kindle.

Also bought and read Geddy Lee’s memoir quickly as a Christmas present to myself bc rush fuckin rocks
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once you get through some of the high level stuff i strongly recommend Philip Gibb's Now it Can Be Told. He was one of the small group of credentialed British war correspondants and this book is like a full recollection of his observations that he couldn't write a bout b/c of the censors but you get some incredible depcitions of front line life on the western front, at least in the British sectors
 
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