{"id":186,"date":"2012-02-24T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=186"},"modified":"2012-02-25T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:35:18","slug":"my-reading-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"My Reading Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been really bad lately about reviewing books that I read. It’s not really a big deal, as I basically do it to help me retain whatever it was I was reading about. Of course, it is also to complain about crappy books when possible. Unfortunately, I have been so busy lately that I don’t even recall how many books I’ve read without writing anything on them. So I guess this is my attempt at addressing the heretofore unmentioned books I’ve read in the past few months:<\/p>\n

  • Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam<\/em> by James M. McPherson\n
  • The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey<\/em> by Candice Millard<\/li>\n
  • Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everday Deceptions<\/em> by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde with Sandra Blakeslee<\/li>\n
  • Extreme Fear<\/em> by Jeff Wise<\/li>\n
  • Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam<\/em> by Stephen W. Sears<\/li>\n
  • Misquoting Jesus<\/em> by Bart D. Ehrman<\/li>\n
  • In a Sunburned Country<\/em> by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n
  • Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology<\/em> by Kenneth L. Feder<\/li>\n
  • The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things we Should Not – and Put Ourselves in Great Danger<\/em> by Daniel Gardner<\/li>\n
  • Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success<\/em> by Matthew Syed<\/li>\n
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference<\/em> by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n
  • Update:<\/strong>I forgot I also just read Numbers Rule Your World<\/em> by Kaiser Fung<\/li>\n

    What I’m currently reading:<\/p>\n

  • How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age<\/em> by Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn<\/li>\n
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success<\/em> by Carol Dweck<\/li>\n
  • Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman<\/em> by William T. Sherman<\/li>\n
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions<\/em> by Dan Ariely<\/li>\n

    Someday maybe I’ll get around to reviewing some of these. <\/p>\n

    Hmmm. On looking at this list, one might get the idea that my major interests are the American Civil War and behavioral economics. Odd, as I never really thought of that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been really bad lately about reviewing books that I read. It’s not really a big deal, as I basically do it to help me retain whatever it was I was reading about. Of course, it is also to complain about crappy books when possible. Unfortunately, I have been so busy lately that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}