en-US Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:53:21 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7502506981 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:53:21 -0700 /review/show/7502506981 Patrick gave 3 stars to How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad by Kathleen Peddicord
bookshelves: non-fiction
]]> Review7210401672 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 06:57:39 -0800 /review/show/7210401672 Patrick gave 3 stars to In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work (Kindle Edition) by Kyla Scanlon
bookshelves: non-fiction
Scanlon takes us through a broad sweep of macroeconomics and attempts to explain how it's all interconnected using current events (mainly from 2008 - 2024). She does it in her casual style and intersperses it with hand-drawn illustrations of economic concepts.

I'm not 100% sure who this book is for. I originally thought it might be an intro-level book, but then Scanlon will drop a term like "quantitative easing" into an unrelated paragraph, and the reader is left to figure it out. I guess it's best for people who have some understanding of the concepts already but would like to see them fleshed out more. ]]> Review7115642303 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:54:27 -0800 /review/show/7115642303 Patrick gave 3 stars to Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Hardcover) by Kim Malone Scott
bookshelves: business, non-fiction
This is generally a guide to how to manage people through feedback and caring about them as humans. I wish I had this book when I first became a team manager 20 years ago. ]]> Review6988575879 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:28:21 -0800 /review/show/6988575879 Patrick gave 3 stars to Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) by Terry Pratchett
bookshelves: fantasy, spec-fic
]]> Review6912334951 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:31:11 -0700 /review/show/6912334951 Patrick gave 4 stars to The Library at Mount Char (Paperback) by Scott Hawkins
]]> ReadStatus8442301366 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:27:56 -0700 /review/show/6871409676 Patrick has read Herb Gardening:: How To Succeed With Your Easy Herb Garden by Douglas Green
]]> Review6772958189 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:46:59 -0700 /review/show/6772958189 Patrick gave 3 stars to How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes (Paperback) by Cody Cassidy
bookshelves: history, humor, non-fiction
Heavy on the background of the historical situations you're escaping, and very specific in some of the escapes ("if it's 1:00am, then go back downstairs..."). I guess I expected something more like How to Survive Anything, but in fairness, the book does exactly what it says on the tin. ]]> Review6769615560 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:55:09 -0700 /review/show/6769615560 Patrick gave 4 stars to The Bright Sword (Kindle Edition) by Lev Grossman
Fascinating take on the Arthurian world, Grossman sets his story after King Arthur's death as the few remaining (B-team) knights try to make sense of their new reality, and struggle to keep Camelot alive. This is not a "historical" Arthur story, and there is plenty of old British magic scattered around.
I hadn't read any King Arthur stuff since I was a teenager, and it took me a chapter or two to get into it, but then I was hooked. ]]> Review6763052892 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:37:39 -0700 /review/show/6763052892 Patrick gave 4 stars to The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover) by Jonathan Haidt
bookshelves: non-fiction, psychology
Chilling overview of how social media and smart phones have combined with overprotective parenting to fundamentally change childhood, resulting in a generation that is more anxious, less confident, and has worse mental health than ever before. Every parent and educator should read this, especially the final chapters with suggestions on how to mitigate the damage. ]]> Review6760685189 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:58:24 -0700 /review/show/6760685189 Patrick gave 4 stars to In the House of the Interpreter (Hardcover) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
bookshelves: non-fiction
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