chadkoh’s avatarchadkoh’s Twitter Archive—№ 17,849

  1. #NowReading2022 🧵 This is where I will be tracking the books I am reading this year. I would love to hear your thoughts as I post each book — no spoilers! 🙃 You can also find these updates on Goodreads. Friend me there if you have an account! 🤝 goodreads.com/user/show/3079724
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      #NowReading2022 It is the dawn of a new year so I am listening to “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
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        #NowReading2022 Just finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s remarkable “Klara and the Sun” Much discussion about to be had on this one…
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          #NowReading2022 I have been thinking about distributed governance methods and need to bone up on different theories, so I started with Colin Ward’s intro to Anarchism. If you have any recommendations I am all ears!
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            #NowReading2022 This arrived today. Been waiting for it eagerly: “Xuanzang: China’s legendary pilgrim and translator” by Benjamin Brose. Watch for a review in March.
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              #NowReading2022 just started “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles” by William Quinn on recommendation from an analyst friend. First chapter alone was amazing! 🤩
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                Just finished Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police” 🥺🥺🥺
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                  Finished Andy Weir’s excellent “Project Hail Mary” on the plane from Japan. I listened to Artemis the last time I was in Kyoto, so I felt like another Weir book while I was in that strange liminal area of the city. Performance was so good. Happy happy happy!
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                    Just finished Mary Robinette Kowal’s third instalment of the wonderful Lady Astronaut series “The Relentless Moon”. She reads them all so well ❤️ 5 stars! 🚀🌚
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                      #NowReading2022 Continuing on my streak of reading about anarchism and also following up on David Graeber, I just finished “The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement” where you can see the threads of so many of his other books.
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                        #NowReading2022 When we went on our long train ride to Adventure World in Shirahama Wakayama, I got the audiobook of Been Aaronovitch’s latest in the Peter Grant series, “Amongst Our Weapons.” Lots of fun as usual! Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a treasure.
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                          #NowReading2022 Hit Podcast Inbox Zero so finally started this classic of computer history: “The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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                            #NowReading2022 I forgot to mention I restarted “A Desolation Called Peace” by Arkady Martine. I adored “A Memory Called Empire” and pre-ordered the sequel halfway through!
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                              I have been lax on keeping my #NowReading2022 list up to date for the past few months. So next up a bit of a thread-within-the-thread of what I have been reading and what I have started recently:
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                                #NowReading2022 In June I listened to “The Collective” by Don Lee, a very intense examination of being an Asian-American artist, and the different ways race plays into creative pursuits in American. I found this book fascinating. Great pick for my book club!
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                                  #NowReading2022 While doing a lot of packing and moving and cleaning I listened to "A Deadly Education“ and “The Last Graduate” by Naomi Novik. Loved the first so much I went straight on to the second. Great narrator. Can’t wait for the third of the trilogy coming next month.
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                                    #NowReading2022 in personal development news, I read Richard Rumelt's “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy” and added a bunch of notes to my ongoing strategy worknotes from the last few years. I found this quite clarifying actually.
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                                      #NowReading2022 Now on to the CURRENTLY reading. I got my preordered copy of Dan Moren’s “The Nova Incident” on my Kindle and started reading it pretty much right away. Good fun!
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                                        #NowReading2022 And while I wait for the next Naomi Novik release I started “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson at the recommendation of @BobbyJudo.
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                                          I hinted that I will be travelling soon. Well, here’s a spoiler: “History of Portugal” my 19th book for #NowReading2022
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                                            Just in time for my trip! I had this pre-ordered and was hoping it would drop. Luckily I got it before getting on my 14.5 hour flight! #NowReading2022 “The Golden Enclaves” by Naomi Novik. Book 3 (and conclusion?) of the Scholomance series
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