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Book #28 of 2019 is Theories of Childhood, by Carol Mooney. At long last, a book that succintly describes some of the different theories of early child development, without a lot of prescriptive advice. It let me build some mental models of how children develop so that I have a foundation for evaluating other how-to articles and such. It's a short book and doesn't have too much detail but is a good starting point, and I can probably now find other books that build on the different theories in more detail.
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Book #27 of 2019 is Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach. I was recommended the book on the grounds that it explained child development processes, which is something I am very interested in. Sadly this turned out not to be the case, but is just another opinionated/prescriptive parenting book from which you have to tease out the development process yourself.
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Book #26 of 2019 is Joy in the Morning, last of my Wodehouse binge. Certainly very similar to the previous books, in that the same scenarios appear over and over but are glued together in different sequences. While it was fun I'm glad I'm done with this series for now. [ 0 Comments... ]
Books #22, #23, #24, and #25 of 2019 are Something Fresh, Heavy Weather, The Inimitable Jeeves, and The Code of the Woosters, all by P. G. Wodehouse. The last of the four I found the best, but they all were pretty good. Amusing as they are, there does appear to be some amount of repetition of themes, more than I would expect. [ 0 Comments... ]
Book #21 of 2019 is The Information by James Gleick. It's a comprehensive but easy-to-read book on information. It starts with the transition from oral to written history, and goes all the way to quantum information theory concepts, spending the most amount of time on Claude Shannon's work on developing information theory. I found it quite good, although it took me a while to get through as I had to stop periodically and absorb stuff. There was a bunch of stuff in there that made for interesting thought-fodder. Wouldn't recommend it to a general public though; good for somebody with a general interest in information theory.
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Book #20 of 2019 is Thank you, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. Hi-liarious! The writing style kind of reminded me of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, but the content is somewhat different. I very much enjoyed it though, and parts had me LOL'ing. [ 0 Comments... ]
Book #19 of 2019 is Investing: The Last Liberal Art. I saw this randomly while browsing in a library and it sounded interesting so I picked it up. It was a bit of a rollercoaster, because:
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Book #18 of 2019 is The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, last one of the Travis McGee books available at my local library. Now I need to find something else. This one was slightly better than average of the lot, I'd say. [ 0 Comments... ]
Book #17 of 2019 is The Green Ripper, yet another of the Travis McGee books. This one was a little meh. There's a similar Jack Reacher book, although of course this one came first. [ 0 Comments... ]
Book #16 of 2019 is The Lonely Silver Rain, again of the Travis McGee series. Also good. My local library only has a couple more of the series (which is part of the reason I've been reading them out of order) so I might as well finish those before moving on to something else. [ 0 Comments... ]
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