Book Thoughts

Pereira Maintains, by Antonio Tabucchi

A weird slight thing of a novel about life in

Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe

How to lift barbells and be happy. One of the

You Just Don't Understand, by Deborah Tannen

A book about how men and women communicate, to whit:

Blood and Oil, by Bradley Hope

A profile of Saudi Arabia's de facto leader,

Normal People and Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney

Reading books where the author articulates thoughts you've

Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Oh, you know, it's Austen. I enjoyed this

Stasiland, by Anna Funder

My God, just one of the greatest books I have

How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell

Thesis: the recipe for success in economic development "is

Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell

Orwell lives on "the fringes of poverty" in

The Box, by Marc Levinson

How shipping containers changed trade, transport and everything. This book