Still too Busy to Blog Properly….But Hey, Look What I’m Reading!
Were it not for guest posts, November would have seemed like I went on hiatus 🙂 Normal blogging will resume in a few weeks.
I did find time to pick up a few new books to read in the late hours of the night, one of which will be the subject of a book review by a new guest poster.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism by Howard Bloom
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
The only thing these three tomes have in common is that the authors have a penchant for contradicting conventional wisdom, at least to a degree.
Howard Bloom is an offbeat, pop science to pop culture master of horizontal thinking whose earlier work, Global Brain, I very much enjoyed and highly recommend. Bloom’s intellectual reach is first rate and he is one of the few writers who can take very difficult concepts from wildly disparate fields and tie them together for a lay audience with comprehensible analogies and anecdotes .
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