: Finished reading: Secret Empire by Steve Englehart 📚 Captain America: The Secret Empire I fell a …
: Finished reading: Underworld by Don DeLillo 📚 Man, I’m so sorry - I really disliked this book. White …
: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 📚 Filterworld by Kyle Chayka 📚 The subtitle for this book is How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Readers …
: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚 Wow, what an incredible book. I put this book on my list last summer after listening to Barbara's …
: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 📚 This book was a recommendation from my cousin Sean. I took it for a standard "slow down" book in the …
: Rule of Two (Star Wars, Darth Bane, Book 2) by Drew Karpyshyn 📚 Here's my review of the first book in this trilogy The challenge of having a Sith Lord — an …
: Sleep to Heal by Dr Abhinav Singh 📚 This book was written by my sleep doctor! I have sleep apnea, which is treated by me wearing a CPAP …
: Path of Destruction (Star Wars, Darth Bane, Book 1) by Drew Karpyshyn 📚 The attraction of reading a new story in an existing universe (for me: Marvel comics and Star Wars …
: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu 📚 This book was another gift to me by my wife’s cousin (who has a sci-fi podcast), and I totally loved …
: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚 Another book I got as a gift. I almost closed it without finishing it several times. I didn’t find …
: Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow 📚 Cory Doctorow is probably best known for his continuous, acidic, brilliant short form nonfiction …
: A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Walter Scheirer 📚 This book was written by a former professor of mine, and given to me by my dad as a gift. I really …
: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 This book has been on my “To Read” list for a few years now. I usually don’t let a book …
: Number Go Up by Zeke Faux 📚 The subtitle for this book is “Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall,” and …
: Beloved by Toni Morrison 📚 This book was tough to get through. I really loved the plot: I thought the story was incredible and …
: Contact by Carl Sagan 📚 My cousin Cody, who hosts a podcast about sci-fi books, had me in the family gift exchange, and …
: The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler 📚 I read this book for my wife’s cousin’s podcast’s Discord’s book club, and it was a great read …
: Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor (Audiobook) 📚 This book is about the dominance of consumer culture in America, and its drawbacks for individuals …
: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 📚 I came across Jesmyn Ward looking at the Wikipedia page of National Book Award winners for things to …
: The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haas 📚 One thing I find myself saying to people when talking about economic policy is “stop referring …
: Under the Dome by Stephen King 📚 1,100 pages of solid, but not exceptional, Stephen King storytelling. A big, transparent, …
: Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana by James H. Madison 📚 I picked up this book right around the time Liz and I decided to get serious about looking for a …
: Wild Mercy by Miribai Starr 📚 I ended my review of Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey like this: “Rest Is Resistance …
: From the newsletter: ChatGPT and the End of Online Content world.hey.com/thom/chat…
: Finished reading: Terraform by Propaganda 📚 I read this book in a day! It is about 250 pages, but it …
: Finished reading: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace 📚 Infinite Jest, also by David Foster …
: Finished reading: Thrawn Treason by Timothy Zahn 📚 The conclusion to the trilogy! (I’ve …
: Finished reading: Thrawn Alliances by Timothy Zahn 📚 This was the second book in the Star Wars …
: Finished reading: The Need to Be Whole by Wendell Berry 📚 In my review of Race: Challenge to …
: Finished reading: Thrawn (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn 📚 During the summer I try to read a few lighter …
: Finished reading: Xenogenesis by Octavia E. Butler 📚 This book, Xenogenesis, is actually a collected …
: Finished reading: Evicted by Matthew Desmond 📚 My Aunt Beth gave me this book! I remember when it …
: “When we place a rhetorical premium on words like confidence or creativity or passion, larger …
: Finished reading: The Return Of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 Darn - I really wanted to like this …
: Finished reading: Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley 📚 I picked this book up totally at …
: Finished reading: Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey 📚 I got this book as a Christmas gift from my …
: Finished reading: Race: Challenge to Religion by Mathew H. Ahmann 📚 I got dinner with a friend the …
: Finished reading: The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty 📚 One of my favorite books of last year was White …
: Finished reading: The Recovering by Leslie Jamison 📚 I finished this book, subtitled “Intoxication …
: Finished Reading: Marvel Comics The Untold Story by Sean Howe 📚 This book chronicles the history of …
: Finished reading: How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell 📚 This was a reread for me! And, not actually a …
: Finished reading: Provocations by Søren Kierkegaard 📚 This book is the first thing that I’ve read by …
: Finished reading: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 The Two Towers was great. I enjoyed it much …
: From the newsletter: 2023 Reading Goals 📝 world.hey.com/thom/2023…
: Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 I’ve watched the Fellowship of the Ring movie maybe a dozen times. I’ve seen The Two Towers a …
: New blog post from me: A Reflection on the Nativity 📝 world.hey.com/thom/a-re…
: The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon 📚 I put this book on my reading list after seeing it recommended on several different reddit threads …
: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 📚📝 This book was recommended to me by the Director of IT at Sierra Club, Dave - a.k.a. my boss’s …
: New blog post from me: Summer ‘22, in photos 📝 world.hey.com/thom/summ…
: Long Division by Kiese Laymon 📚📝 This is an absolutely awesome book, and I found it totally by accident. I was reading about how the …
: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore 📚📝 The Book in 3 Sentences In an alternative near-future, the UK has come through the far side of Cold …
: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 📚📝 This spring, on a trip to Bloomington, I stumbled on a massive, hardcover volume of Kurt …
: White Noise by Don DeLillo 📚📝 This is the third recommendation I’ve taken this year from my friend Jay, after Snow Crash …
: Maus by Art Spiegelman The Book in 3 Sentences The author relates his father’s stories of World War II to the reader …
: Life and Holiness by Thomas Merton I’ve read a handful of books by Thomas Merton. In fact, he is certainly the author most …
: Tough by Terry Crews 📚📝 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Actor Terry Crews walks through his life, picking stories that correspond …
: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 📚📝 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences This graphic novels shares some stories of a girl living in Iran during …
: All The Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer 📚📝 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences This book tells the story the midcentury coup in Iran, which was …
: A lil’ music snack from me to you: Thom’s Jams May 2022
: The Likeness by Tana French 📚📝 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences A detective, who has a striking resemblance to a fresh murder victim, goes …
: New blog post from me: Spring 2022 updates 📝 world.hey.com/thom/spri…
: Stolen Focus by Johann Hari 📚📝 Thanks to this blog post by Filipe Donadio, which gave me this new template for book reviews, which …
: “Modern fitness is shaped by neoliberal ideas of the optimizable self, by consumer capitalism, by …
: Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson 📝📚 This book was recommended to me by a friend around the time the fourth Matrix movie came out. I …
: The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous 📝📚 This is the second book (after The Imitation of Christ) that I am reading as part of my effort to …
: Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier 📚📝 This was the third book by Jaron Lanier I’ve “read”, although the first two, You Are Not A Gadget …
: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis 📚📝 One of my resolutions for this year was to add more structure to my daily prayer time, and to add a …
: Witches and Witch Hunts: A History of Persecution by Milton Meltzer 📚📝 I was happy to stumble on this book in a used bookstore the other day. I was looking in the …
: Cultish, by Amanda Montell 📚 This book caught my eye last summer when it came out, but I didn’t get around to reading it …
: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 📝📚 Holy smokes this was an enrapturing book. Over 600 pages, and I binged it over the course of four …
: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin 📚📝 What a great conclusion to the trilogy. This book was definitely the most ambitious of the three; …
: New blog post from me: “A Quote from bell hooks” 📝 world.hey.com/thom/a-qu…
: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin 📚📝 This book was an awesome follow-up to The Fifth Season. Less action-packed, this book goes deeper on …
: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin 📚 The Fifth Season was extremely dark, but was a great & engaging read. It’s the first in a …
: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 📚📝 This is the third third book that I’ve read by Jonathan Franzen. I loved The Corrections and I loved …
: The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, PhD 📚📝 I actually read this book back in June. I wanted to spend some time implementing the advice in the …
: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 📚📝 Part of Sally Rooney’s awesome talent is her ability to make any character relatable by vividly …
: Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke 📚📝 This definitely the biggest “bang-for-your-buck” book I’ve read all year. I read it in about three …
: Antkind by Charlie Kaufman 📚📝 This book has many of the hallmarks of the postmodern novel: very long, multiple storylines, …
: Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📚📝 This book feels like it was written in the form of a classic whodunnit mystery. There are a bunch of …
: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 📚📝 I enjoyed this book much like I enjoyed the first. it didn’t span timelines as much as the …
: Foundation by Isaac Asimov 📚📝 This is my first foray into Asimov! I’ve been wanting to read the Foundation (and Robot) …
: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 📚📝 I started getting into comic books around the same time I watched the new Watchmen TV show, so …
: No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood: My Review 📚📝 This book is written in as an extremely long series of atomic scenes, images, and feelings. The …
: Essentialism by Greg McKeown: my review 📚📝 I’m not sure what the difference is between a self-help book and a book on business management; but …
: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates: My Review 📚📝 There is lots of media out there on climate change. Documentaries, TED talks, articles, essays. And …
: Strength to Love by Martin Luther King (My Review) 📚📝 For the majority of my adult life, my spirituality has had nonviolence at it’s core. Thomas Merton …
: My Review of "A Desolation Called Peace" by Arkady Martine 📚📝 I was totally enraptured by Arkady Martine’s first novel, A Memory Called Empire, which I read last …
: My review of The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa 📚 www.thombehrens.com/books-202…
: My review of Futureproof, by Kevin Roose 📚 www.thombehrens.com/books-202…
: My review of Exhalation, by Ted Chiang 📚 www.thombehrens.com/books-202…
: My review of Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips: www.thombehrens.com/books-202…