What are you reading right now?

[Lisnaholic]

Mind Your Brain - Dr Kailas Roberts (book on dementia)
Good Arguments - Bo Seo
Win Every Argument - Mehdi Hasan
Indistractable - Nir Eyal
Declutter Your Life - Gil Hasson
Speak With Impact - Alison Shapira
Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta
Passing Exams for Dummies - Patrick Sherratt (quite a bit better than I was expecting)
Chaos Kings - Scott Patterson

^ Judging by the titles alone, it looks like you enjoy reading books aiming at self-improvement.

I guess I'm the opposite of you - I much prefer politics over the detail-ridden minutiae of long military campaigns. The longest book on purely politics I think I've ever read was Richard Nixon's Memoir, which clocked it in at a cool 1,111 pages. I somehow found time in college to read through it all - at points, it felt like a marathon sprint. 

That said, I'll add that series to my list, as I do read books on military campaigns occasionally, though they usually are about WW2.

...the detail-ridden minutiae of...

That's a great phrase - and it made me think immediately of Ten Days That Shook The World, which I found hugely disappointing. That book goes into endless details about Trotsky calling to order the first meeting of the Siberian Coal-Workers Union, and how they ratified the decision to support the First Soviet of Volga Farmworkers, but denounced the Kalingrad Oblast of Furnituremakers for disseminating pamphlets promoting bourgeios revisionism, etc, etc... You'd probably love it - and compared with a 1,111 pages on Nixon, you could breeze through it in an afternoon, I should think !

Plenty of politics in those Bruce Catton books, though often it's the politics of appointing this general/scapegoating that general. What made the book fascinating to me was how the fighting took place during a period of transition in the "art of warfare" and included both the old school of cavalry charges and the tactics of trench warfare, made infamous by WW I.

I hope you give his books a try and get caught up in drama of the conflict, just as I did. 

[Meatwad]

^ Judging by the titles alone, it looks like you enjoy reading books aiming at self-improvement.

Hi Lis. Yes, quite a few there are of the pop psych ilk as they're the most accessible of the titles I've been chasing recently at my local library.

I have an extremely long list of books on various subjects geared to get me back into the habit of good studying habits, so that I can then think about going back to tertiary education soon. That is the plan at least lol.

[Lisnaholic]

^ Good for you, Meatwad ! I wonder what, specifically, you're planning to study ?

Two public libraries that I used to know well:-


( By amazing coincidence, I think that's ISB, standing on the right of the little group by the notice board !)

[QuantumSync]

wanted this book for a while, looks like it is a 4 page a day thing