Books

2024 reading recap:

100 solo
24 with my 6yo
6 with my 4yo
2 with both

Highlights:

Basic Economics 
The Godfather
The Ancient City
Twain’s travel books
The Golden Bough

Lowlights:
The Inimitable Jeeves
Nausea
The Aeneid
The Bible 
Wuthering Heights

Full lists below 👇

I spend around an hour per day reading aloud to my kids. It’s surprising how differently some books hit when read aloud!

I do a mix of paper, kindle, and audiobooks. 

I think I probably spent an average of 25 hours per week reading solo throughout 2024. 

I’d love talking about any of these if you see one you like on the list. I also might try to review them one by one in 2025 if it seems like there’s appetite for that here.

The Golden Bough - Girard argues that Frazer misses the importance of the scapegoat: a critical mechanism to understand violence and memetic rivalry in humans. See also Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the  World (Girard, 1978).

Thank you for the recommendation

What books are comparable? Or, what’s the elevator pitch?

Just finished The Scapegoat - think you'd enjoy if you haven't already.

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It was extremely inspiring. Genuine magic. It’s like freebasing unadulterated true deep human nature 

I read the author’s one volume version and I’m considering reading the 12 volume version in 2025

Golden Bough I’ve heard a lot of recently. Kurtz was reading it at end of apocalypse now.

It lands in the overlap of enjoyable and beneficial like nothing else. It’s the best

Reading with my dad was one of my childhood highlights. Can’t wait to do the same with my kids some day :)

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That's great to hear! Keep spreading the positivity!

Over a 100 books. Wow!

My target is to read over 25 books in 2025.

So far, I've finished "Tuesday with Morrie" and I'm now reading "The Year of Magical Thinking".

I'd love an invite to the /books channel. I intend to drop a review for each book I finish.

Diverse reading but biased against classics

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Missed reading alot of books during my education, I am glad that opportunity will come again in a few in this shape

Would definitely like to know more about your experience