books

the journey to ithaka

platitudes aren’t all to be avoided, corny is not to be scorned by the self-proclaimed cultured. I remember Mario Vargas Llosa coming to the defense …

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2022, cavafy, literature, poetry

what I talk about when I talk about running | murakami

Haruki Murakami wrote this book between 2005 and 2006, and published it in 2007 in Japan with the title Hashiru Koto Ni Tsuite Kataru Toki …

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2021, murakami, running

the selfish gene | richard dawkins

This is the first book that I have finished from the re-reading list I compiled a while ago. And this is the book, the one …

books

2020, books, science

“surely you’re joking, mr. feynman!”

I finished reading Surely You’re Joking on the last day of November and it is definitely one of the most amusing, pleasurable, and inspiring books …

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2020, books, science

the remains of the day | ishiguro

OK. Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in 2017 and I’m happy to report that I was a bit ahead of the curve. I had already …

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2018, books, literature

the end of faith | sam harris

I picked up this book because it promised to express a bold position not only against religion in general but, given the state of affairs …

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2018, books, ethics, philosophy

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