What did you read this year?
Tim’s
average rating for
2024
4.5
4.5
This book is honestly one of the best books I’ve read on parenting (not that I can really tell what’s good and bad since I don’t yet have kids), but it aggregates some of the best practices and presents them in a non too prescriptive way. The only issue I have with the book is, like many Catholic books of its time, the impression the authors seem to have that only the most recent Popes have ever said anything about the matter and so seem to total
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I thought this book was a fascinating overview on the current understanding of how the brain works. I found it to be very balanced and objective for the most part, with the exception of a few quips about Galileo and Bruno of questionable veracity. Galileo almost certainly never saw the inside of a dungeon: he lived out his “sentence� of house arrest in a Tuscan villa, and his sentence was entirely for political, not scientific reasons. Bruno was
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