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# Title: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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| **Title** | Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential |
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| **Author** | Tiago Forte |
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| **Started** | 2022-07-06 |
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| [Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain) |
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## Author: Tiago Forte
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**Started Reading**: 2022-07-06
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**Finished Reading**:
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain)
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2022-07-07: I ran across a [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/vsejrx/-/if1kzxy) today where someone asked about a note note taking system and was recommended to read the book "Building a Second Brain". The book purports to explain a way to think about notes and how to organize things rather than recommend apps (or so I hope). This morning, while looking for something to listen to while I walk I found the Art of Manliness podcast had just dropped an episode where he [interviewed Tiago Forte about the book](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-816-building-a-second-brain/)! So I spent my walk listening to the author talk about the book. I was relieved to hear that he doesn't necessarily recommend any specific software and talks more about the higher-level concepts of personal knowledge management. I was also pleased to discover that I am doing most of the things he talks about already.
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## Notes
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### Highlights / Notes
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In the professional world:
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* It’s not at all clear what you should be taking notes on.
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Fung, Jason - The Obesity Code.md
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| **Title** | The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss |
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| **Author** | Jason Fung MD |
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| **Started** | 2022-12-17 |
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| [Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945404-the-obesity-code) |
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### Highlights / Notes
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I picked up this book after my 2022 fatty liver diagnosis. I've had the book for a while and just wanted to read all the things Dr Fung says in all his YouTube videos. It's good for when I find my will-power lacking.
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Knight, Sarah - calm the Fuck down.md
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| **Title** | calm the FUCK down |
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| **Author** | Sarah Knight |
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| **Started** | 2022-12-24 |
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| [Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40163062-calm-the-f-ck-down) |
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### Highlights / Notes
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Ashley bought me this book from Barnes and Nobles back when I worked for PDM/RRD and was having a particularly bad weekend obsessing over backups and imminent outages (that never happened, by the way)
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I've gotten pretty far into this book a few times, but never finished it and always leave enough time in between readings to forget everything and have to begin again. I've since obtained the ebook so it lives on my phone and tablet. Maybe this time will be the charm?
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Lawson, Jenny - Furiously Happy.md
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# Title: Furiously Happy
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## Author: Jenny Lawson
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**Started Reading**: 2022-11-27
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**Finished Reading**:
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848559-furiously-happy)
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# Quotes
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> I can't think of another type of illness where the sufferer is made to feel guilty and question their self-care when their medications need to be changed.
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> Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.
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>And also, WHY IS THERE A BEAR IN MY BED?" and I was like, "Because that one's juuust right," and Victor looked at me incredulously because apparently his mother never read him "Goldilocks."
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> like when I heard about "microdermabrasion," which I suspect is Latin for "I want to pull off your skin and turn it into a jacket." My dermatologist sent me an e-mail about it, saying something about how my new skin was suffocating underneath layers of my old, dead skin, and I suddenly felt like I was wearing a mask of dust mites and dirt.
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> I use nothing but soap and water until one of those mall beauticians stops me on my way to buy a pretzel to tell me how bad I look and convinces me to lavish my face with an expensive cream that makes me immediately break out, probably because my face is not used to being cared for and is panicking.
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> Imagine carrying seven pockets with you at the carnival. You can't. You'd need a purse. Then you'd get on the Zipper and it'd be fine for a minute until your purse popped open and all of your stuff was being poltergeisted around the cage at you like you were a kitten in a dryer full of batteries, and then your phone gave you a black eye. This is all based on real life, by the way.
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> Here's a picture of just a few of the buttons on a Japanese toilet:
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>I'm not entirely sure what these are all for but I think the top one that looks like a stick figure is to notify people that you've found the Blair Witch, and I think the next one means "Poop won't go down. Use your foot." I assume the orange button on the far left is for starting a war, and then there are two for washing your boobs for some reason, and then one about levitating on a fountain, and I think the last one is for ordering bacon?
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-11
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> It was the kind of file nobody would ever look at. Five terabytes of plain ascii text characters. Even its name made Martin sleepy - repository1-c.txt. The moment that Martin thought, no sane person would download a file like that, was the moment he decided to give it a try.
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Just read the first few pages and before I knew it I was on chapter 12. Feels like a less foul-mouthed version of Caverns and Creatures. Have a feeling I'll be finishing this soon.
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UPDATE: yep. Finished it in one day. A fun book with an original concept. I might have liked it better if Martin and the gang didn't pick Medieval England.
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## Author: Robert Pirsig
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**Started Reading**: 'unknown'
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**Finished Reading**: 'unknown'
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31093.Lila)
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title: Reading List - 1984
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# Title: 1984
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## Author: Orwell, George
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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A true classic. Have read it multiple times. I can't resist comparing it to the affairs in America under Trump
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - A Christmas Carol
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# Title: A Christmas Carol
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## Author: Charles Dickens
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**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-12-02
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I wanted to read the original.
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END NOTE: Written in old(er) english, I'm glad that I'd seen so many adaptations of the story and just as glad the edition I read had plenty of footnotes. I was surprised at how many direct quotes from the book have survived in the many film adaptations I've seen. As Tiny Tim has opined: "God Bless Us, Every One!"
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title: Reading List - A Clockwork Orange
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# Title: A Clockwork Orange
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## Author: Burgess, Anthony
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[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange)
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Love the Movie, love the book. For different reasons. I really liked the 21st chapter (Alex's Denouement). While it almost seemed like a "too-quick-wrap-up" of the events of the preceding chapters, it rings a bit true how young men one day just "grow up" and leave childish things behind. I also respect Kubrick's take in the movie that there can be no denouement. Some men are born evil and remain that way their entire lives.
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title: Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
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# Title: A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
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## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
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**Started**: 2020-02-24
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**Finished**: DNF
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I can't believe I'm reading a book about politics, but it's really more about current events. UPDATE: after he was acquitted during his impeachment trial I gave up on this book. Not that's it's not true (all of it), but because there's new, more damning information released on a daily basis.
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title: Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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# Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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## Author: Fulghum, Robert
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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title: Reading List - Almost Interesting
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# Title: Almost Interesting
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## Author: David Spade
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**Started Reading**: 2017-12-18
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-01-08
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[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24805706-almost-interesting)
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I've always liked David Spade when I saw him on SNL and in movies. But I kinda forgot about him after his popularity waned. This was by no means a best-seller, but I think he knew that with the title of the book.
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I enjoyed this book a lot. His narrative style (“He writes like he talks!”) was a little unnerving early on, but the stories about his rise to fame at Saturday Night Live and the behind the scenes peeks at the show were really good.
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Especially good if you remember the incidents he refers to (and I do) like the Chris Farley/Patrick Swayze Chippendale's sketch and pretty much the best parts of Tommy Boy.
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A fun, easy read that left me hoping to see more of him and wishing him the best in the future.
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title: Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3)
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# Title: An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3)
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## Author: [[Scott Meyer]]
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-05-11
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Finally got back into reading this year and finished this book that I started sometime early 2019. All-in-all a good book (I read the whole thing). Todd is back and Jimmy tries to convince the gang that he's not a total dickhead. Another ending that leaves me wondering about the events in the next book.
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title: Reading List - Armada
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# Title: Armada
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## Author: [[Ernest Cline]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-02-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-21
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I love [[Reading List - Ready Player One]]. I'm hoping this is as good.
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End Note: Amidst bad reviews, I liked this enough to finish it in about 24 hours. Wow.
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title: Reading List - Bossypants
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# Title: Bossypants
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## Author: Tina Fey
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title: Building a Second Brain
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# Title: Building a Second Brain
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## Author: Tiago Forte
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**Started Reading**: 2022-07-06
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain)
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## My Take
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2022-07-07: I ran across a [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/vsejrx/-/if1kzxy) today where someone asked about a note note taking system and was recommended to read the book "Building a Second Brain". The book purports to explain a way to think about notes and how to organize things rather than recommend apps (or so I hope). This morning, while looking for something to listen to while I walk I found the Art of Manliness podcast had just dropped an episode where he [interviewed Tiago Forte about the book](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-816-building-a-second-brain/)! So I spent my walk listening to the author talk about the book. I was relieved to hear that he doesn't necessarily recommend any specific software and talks more about the higher-level concepts of personal knowledge management. I was also pleased to discover that I am doing most of the things he talks about already.
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title: Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill
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# Title: Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill
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## Author: Bryan Smith
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**Started Reading**: 2020-11-22
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-22
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113652-christmas-eve-on-haunted-hill)
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This was...
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- short (just over 100 pages)
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- holiday-themed (obviously. It took place all on Christmas Eve)
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- bad. Well, to be fair it was more like a Tales from the Crypt episode. For such a short story it skipped a lot of background and took some liberties with characters and backstory. Hey I read the whole thing, so it wasn't that bad.
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Luke is the lone survivor of a Christmas Eve massacre committed by his Santa-suited father 10 years ago. Ten years later, Luke is back in town, in a Santa suit, with plans to commit suicide after getting wasted in the local bar. When he runs into an old friend (divine providence?) things take a different turn and he decides to destroy his old house, the scene of the original tragedy. But a bunch of kids have beat them to the house and are about to come face-to-face with an evil that visits the house once a year to bring something far more sinister than presents.
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title: Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
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# Title: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
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## Author: [[Cory Doctorow]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-09-07
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-13
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I liked “Little Brother” and I recognize Cory Doctorow as a sort of patron-saint of open-source (or probably more correctly free-use).
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I'm about half way through this. I like it. Small digestible chunks of advocacy for free-use and arguments against copyright and DRM and other crap.
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 1
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# Title: Critical Failures: Shit is About to get Real (Caverns and Creatures Book 1)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15701981-critical-failures)
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 2
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# Title: Critical Failures: Fail Harder (Caverns and Creatures Book 2)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667253-critical-failures-ii)
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 3
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# Title: Critical Failures - A Storm of S-Words (Caverns and Creatures Book 3)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-07-16
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22963010-critical-failures-iii)
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#readinglist/read
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Started this book a long time ago after reading [[Reading List - Critical Failures 1|Critical Failures 1]] & [[Reading List - Critical Failures 2|Critical Failures 2]]. I stopped about 3/4 of the way through and it got away from me. Glad to have this finished. A good story that sets up part 4. The gang chased Mordred back into the game. The next book should be good.
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 4
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# Title: Critical Failures: The Phantom Pinas (Caverns and Creatures Book 4)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-07-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27880863-critical-failures-iv)
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#readinglist/read
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Pretty good so far - not able to read continuously for whatever reason. It's taking a while to get through this one.
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END NOTE: holy shit! Tim fucked up at the end forcing ANOTHER book! Ploy to sell more books? Maybe, but I've got book five so I'll have to see what happens next.
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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---
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# Title: Dead Clown Barbecue
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## Author: Jeff Strand
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**Started Reading**: 2020-08-22
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-01
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16482018-dead-clown-barbecue)
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---
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This is book full of short stories that remind me a lot of [J Plummer](https://www.joeplummer.com/)'s Notebook. They're short. They're funny (most of the time). They're gory. They're politically-incorrect.
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That being said, they're not **amazing**, but that fact is offset nicely by the fact that they are short. I can usually read an entire story while the girls are brushing their teeth at night before bed.
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I was planning on writing up a sentence or two about each but there are 29 stories. Nope.
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Note: This got sort of painful by the end. Some of these stories were just silly. I get the writing style and appreciate the in-your-face, pragmatic narrative style, but I found myself reading a story every few day more out the sense of duty, wanting to finish the book, rather than wondering what was going to come next or if the next story was going to be good.
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But I did read the whole thing.
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[[Reading List Index]]
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---
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title: Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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---
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# Title: Deliver Us From Evil
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## Author: Allen Lee Harris
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||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
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||||
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||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
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#readinglist/read
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52414163-deliver-us-from-evil)
|
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From the back cover:
|
||||
|
||||
> Deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, in a place called 'the snake well' by the locals, a twelve year old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret...NOW...A young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town...and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the 'snake well.' An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawlspaces. The townsfolk's darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets. And two young boys must face an evil that has been waiting for millennia to bring humanity an everlasting night.
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From inside the back cover:
|
||||
|
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> Allen Lee Harris lives in Georgia with his eight cats. He began college when he was 14, graduated at 19, then attended Harvard Divinity School before getting a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He returned to Georgia, where he was working toward his PhD when he began writing full-time. While writing he supported himself at various jobs, including tending an all-night gas station where he wrote some of the more frightening parts of Deliver Us From Evil.
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Only in paperback.
|
||||
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[[Reading List Index]]
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---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Dmitri
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Dmitri
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Jamey Cohen
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103452.Dmitri)
|
||||
|
||||
From the back cover:
|
||||
|
||||
> THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING.
|
||||
It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and heir to the Russian throne, has less than a week to live unless he can find a way to escape an assassin's blade....
|
||||
> It is Monday, May tenth, and in twenty-first century America, college senior John Greene is about to participate in a simple hypnosis experiment - an experiment that will catapult him into a terrifying battle for his very existence....
|
||||
> It is Monday, May tenth, and in a world where time has lost all meaning, beautiful graduate student Marina Kuryev can only wait and watch in helpless horror as the man she loves is caught in a lethal conflict with a boy long-dead....
|
||||
|
||||
Only available in paperback. I never thought I'd be interested in a book like this (Russian history) but just like Jamey says in the Epilogue:
|
||||
|
||||
While the twentieth-century characters were fictional, there really was a [Dmitri Ivanovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_of_Uglich) and there really was a [false Dmitri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry):
|
||||
> ...I omitted telling you that there was a second false Dmitri. And a third. And a fourth.
|
||||
> And they all wanted one thing.
|
||||
> To be tsar.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
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||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Doctor Sleep
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Doctor Sleep
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List - The Shining]] Part 2?
|
||||
|
||||
At first I thought the "True Knot" was a little hokey, but it's grown on me. Have read this multiple times.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Driven to Distraction
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/dnf ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Driven to Distraction
|
||||
## Author: Edward M Hallowell MD
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2021-01-11
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: DNF
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108593.Driven_to_Distraction)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Election
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Election
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Tom Perrotta
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-11-09
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-09
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282.Election)
|
||||
|
||||
I always liked the movie and I was interested once I found out that it was based on a book. I finally found the book and decided to check it out. I am half through the book at this point. It reads just like the movie - I'm even picturing the characters from the movie as I read.
|
||||
END NOTE: The end took a different turn than the movie that, while thought provoking, wasn't as satisfying as the movie. Still glad I read it.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Elevation
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Elevation
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-27
|
||||
|
||||
Borrowed from Cuyahoga County library via Libby. I'm having a hard time finding the time to read, but this seems like typical King so far.
|
||||
|
||||
END NOTE: Too long for a short story and too short for a novel. Felt like it belonged in Bazaar of Bad Dreams except it wasn't really a horror story. More of a fantasy. Not mad that that I read it.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - End of Watch
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: End of Watch
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2018-06-08
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-12
|
||||
|
||||
Book three of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
|
||||
|
||||
More of a true sequel to the [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]]. The call-backs to the previous books are nice, but he sets them up well - you didn't have to read the previous books to understand this one.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Finders Keepers
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Finders Keepers
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2018-06-07
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-08
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
Book two of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
|
||||
|
||||
OK - within the first few chapters, we're seeing the events that started [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]] from another point of view. I guess I'll be reading this one too. - Well, I finished it. Like a good "second-in-a-trilogy" this one left us with shadows of what's to come for book three. I'm not sure I'll get to book three right away. I should, but I've found that Mr Mercedes was a mini-series on TV. From what I can see they butchered the plot. I might have to peek at that before moving on to [[Reading List - End of Watch]]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Forrest Gump
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/dnf, readinglist/libby ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Forrest Gump
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Winston Groom
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2021-02-08
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: DNF
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186190.Forrest_Gump)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
We watched Forrest Gump recently and I got caught up in the IMDB trivia. There was [one entry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/trivia?item=tr1311738) that alluded to there being a sequel to the first book. First book? I never knew Forrest Gump was a book. So I found it on Libby and read the first chapter before checking it out. I'm not sure if I'll finish it (it's really different from the movie), but I was able to get through the first chapter pretty quickly.
|
||||
|
||||
I couldn't get through this. It's just too weird after watching the movie. It's like a bad fan-fiction of the movie.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Gerald's Game
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Gerald's Game
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-12-04
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2017-12-06
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
I've begun binging Netflix shows and found this in their 'Netflix Originals' section. I watched the trailer only to find it was a movie and not a series, but still - it looked really interesting. Thinking I must have this book somewhere - I found it and am on Chapter 10. I'm promising myself I'll read it before I watch the movie. So far - so good. A bit of "United States of Tara"-style multiple-personality going on but only in Jessie's head. Stephen rarely lets me down, so I'll keep reading this one. UPDATE: This was a strange book. I still think it should have been over after chapter 34. The last six chapters were almost unnecessary. It took a story about survival and introspection and made it a monster movie. Meh.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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