Thursday, June 21, 2018

Quiet Strength

Queit Strength: The Principles, Practices and Priorities of a Winning Life
Tony Dungy

From my Goodreads Review

This was a pretty good biography about a very admirable man. His strength, especially in te face of tragedy and professional frustrations is truly amazing. But it his recognition of what is truly important that is the most important aspect of his life story.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Treasure of Norse Mythology

Goodreads review

This was a halfway decent mythology book. I think, however, it was aimed at children and she almost talked down to those readers! In fact, it was a children's book and I somehow missed that when I picked it up. I guess I needed the talking down to, huh?

Monday, June 11, 2018

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

Goodreads review:

I thought that this was a pretty good primer course on philosophy, considerably better than the dry stuff I read in PHI 101! I really enjoyed the chapters on epistemology and philosophy of language (go figure that theses were my favorite courses in college). The correspondence theory of truth joke actually brought an audible chuckle out of me. Overall I'd recommend this to anyone who would like to learn a bit of philosophy without being bogged down with deep, heavy reading or to someone with a bit of philosophical knowledge for a bit of laughter at some quality Dad jokes.

Monday, June 4, 2018

Early Kings of Norway

Goodreads review:

As far as historical accounts go tis one seems to tick all the boxes: it's informative. Uh, yeah. After that, it's a pretty dry history of some juicy historical stuff. Maybe I'm overawed by History Channel's Vikings. That's a distinct possibility. But somehow this reads more like Leviticus/Numbers rather than the Orkneyinga/Volsungs Saga.