For the first time since 2012 I read more than 20 books in a single year, including novels by Nobel Prize winners Naguib Mahfouz (Palace Walk) and Doris Lessing (The Fifth Child). I am a slow reader and typically I can read only at night, but still I am excited with this little accomplishment. If […]
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A natural story of the future by Rob Dunn. The title of this book is really cool. The author is professor of ecology in North Carolina State University and the book explains the ecology laws in a modern context including the implications of global warming to urban geographies. It is explained how the present and future
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Aura by Carlos Fuentes. The author was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book is magic –or perhaps more accurately– it is written and experienced as a dream. This short novel is about Felipe Montero, a historian that is hired to translate and to put together a memoir
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The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth. The author is professor of medieval history in Yale University. This book blew my mind and the reason why I like it so much is because it mostly relies on archaeological and experimental evidence. There is a lot of literature written in the form of poetry about
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Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoffrey Colvin (2010). This book presents a very simple idea which I like very much: Greatness is not necessarily the result of an innate gift or talent, buy the product of a large number of hours of hard work. Here I just mention
Numbers Don’t Lie by Vaclav Smil. This could be a good book but still needs proper editing. I intend to offer a positive opinion of this book, and I do think well of it; however, it currently reads as a work in progress. Apparently, this book originated as a collection of short articles or essays
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Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (2006). This book is somewhat controversial, at least from my perspective, as it seeks to explain why some cultures became significantly more developed than others, arguing that the disparity in development among cultures is largely due to environmental differences. Although several people have
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Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is my second book of Dostoevsky and I decided to read it after reading ‘The House of the Dead’, which I have already reviewed in this blog. Incidentally I feel there is some connection between these two books, in the sense that at the end of C&P Raskolnikov
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Leadership Principles for Project Success by Thomas Juli (2010). I just noticed I read this book some time ago. I remember I chose it because I saw a lot of good reviews about it but I did’t write my own personal assessment and I think it deserves one because it is a good book on
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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (1982). I am writing this review a week after finishing the book because I was both angry and depressed after completing it. I wonder if Bukowski knew he would have this impact on his readers. He is one of those rare authors with the power to transcend time and
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