I've read a lot of books on this topic, but sometimes it's useful to revisit the concepts, to reevaluate whether the things I'm attempting to do are the best options. My favorite part of the book involved an explicit method of reframing a question to determine if you're attempting to solve the right ...
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The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov
This is a brilliant, unique approach to time travel fiction, though I'd expect nothing less from Isaac Asimov. Nearly every other time travel story involves a device that allows travel to occur -- and I guess in a way this one does too, but it refers to a capsule almost like an elevator, which ...
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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
I perhaps should have read this book on kindle rather than listened to it - I'm not a good auditory learner and I know this, so any audio nonfiction needs to be fairly general so I can just get the gist and be fine. AI is pretty far outside my realm of expertise, but it was written for the general ...
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
I'd read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" before this one, and was pleased to see that the authors referenced that book as foundational reading, but they rendered its contents both more readable and more actionable. I only picked this up at a library sale out of mild interest, but found myself highlighting ...
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Northanger Abbey
I had thought I'd read all of Jane Austen's works... I was so sure I'd tried this one many times and found it dreadfully dull. But it turned out I'd been conflating it with Persuasion and Mansfield Park all this time. I actually discovered a new Austen!
While it wasn't nearly as boring as those ...
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Cleopatra
I probably wouldn't have finished this, had I continued to read the paperback version... I should know by now that for biographies and history in general, it really needs to be audio to keep my interest. Once I switched over and could multitask while I listened, I zipped through it. What a ...
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The Life and Works of Jane Austen
What a fun listen! This might be my favorite Great Course I've taken, but then, I'm a big Jane Austen fan. I learned a lot about her life and family, her early works, and also about the culture and era in which she wrote. (For instance: I had no idea that "regency" actually referred to a discrete ...
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Unequal Affection: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling
This was almost as enjoyable as the original! The author really captured the characters of Elizabeth and Darcy, as well as all of the supporting cast. This felt like an alternate-universe take on what might have happened, had Elizabeth not immediately rejected Darcy when he first proposed. The story ...
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The Black Pearl, Scott O’Dell
A fun, quick adventure story set in (I gathered) turn-of-the-century Mexico, this read like an English lit pick from high school representing the conflict of man vs nature, or man vs creature or monster.
Ramon grows up diving for pearls, and helping his father to polish and sell them. He's heard ...
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
I've found that I cannot read history--I have to listen to it, for the pacing to work for me. (I'm sure this says bad things about my attention span. I can pay very careful attention indeed to scientific minutiae, though! Just... not history.) So when I switched from Kindle to audible on this one, I ...
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