The Breakdown The second consecutive year I’ve fallen short of my reading goal. Not even close to reaching parity on fiction/non-fiction books. Reading really is a domestic pursuit and work and family pressures have been catching up with me in recent years. It’s been hard to get into a reading rhythm and I’ve defaulted to […]
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Annual Reading Diary 2017
January 9th, 2019 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“Crocs in the Cabinet: Northern Territory Politics – an Instruction Manual on how NOT to run a government”, Ben Smee and Christopher Walsh. Buy –Borrow – Toss “City Limits: Why Australia’s Cities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them”, Jane-Frances Kelly and Paul Donegan. Buy –Borrow – Toss “Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century”, Gideon Rachman. Buy –Borrow – Toss “Gallipoli […]
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Annual Reading Diary 2014
January 4th, 2015 · Comments Off on Annual Reading Diary 2014 · Uncategorized
2014 “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy“, Christopher Hayes. Buy –Borrow – Toss “The Narrow Road to the Deep North“, Richard Flanagan. Buy –Borrow – Toss “The Blunders of Our Governments”, Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. Buy –Borrow – Toss “A Premier’s State”, Steve Bracks. Buy –Borrow – Toss “The Australian Moment: How we were made for these times”, George Megalogenis. Buy –Borrow – Toss “How Labour Governs”, Vere […]
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Good Career Advice – “The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns”, Sasha Issenberg
December 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on Good Career Advice – “The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns”, Sasha Issenberg · Uncategorized
Levitt told his students they would be smart to live below their means, so they could always have the flexibility to afford taking a different job if it was lower-paying.
I Had Known it and Rejected it – “Leaving the Atocha Station”, Ben Lerner
November 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on I Had Known it and Rejected it – “Leaving the Atocha Station”, Ben Lerner · Uncategorized
Various people greeted us and Teresa detached from me to kiss them and I was acutely aware of not being attractive enough for my surroundings; luckily I had a strategy for such situations, one I had developed over many visits to New York with the dim kids of the stars: I opened my eyes a […]
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November 5th, 2012 · Comments Off on · Uncategorized
Perhaps the most surprising fact in T-Bone’s ledgers was the incredibly low wage paid to the young members who did the dirtiest and most dangerous work: selling drugs on the street. According to T-Bone’s records, they barely earned minimum wage. For all their braggadocio, to say nothing of the peer pressure to spend money on […]
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Journeys are the Midwives of Thought – “The Art of Travel” – Alain de Botton
June 8th, 2012 · Comments Off on Journeys are the Midwives of Thought – “The Art of Travel” – Alain de Botton · Travel, Uncategorized
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, and new thoughts, new places. […]
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“Inside the Canberra Press Gallery: Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House” – Rob Chalmers
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on “Inside the Canberra Press Gallery: Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House” – Rob Chalmers · Democracy, Uncategorized
..most parliamentarians saw very little of Canberra, and from their point of view there was not much to see.
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Statement of Views: Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
May 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Statement of Views: Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby · Uncategorized
I don’t usually use this Tumblr as a forum for commentary, but I can see from the reaction to the release of the trailer of this movie that I need somewhere to put my views on this on the public record. The below was originally posted at a now virtually extinct social media site when […]
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“The Fall of Berlin 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on “The Fall of Berlin 1945” – Antony Beevor · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
Then Roosevelt announced without warning that United States forces would not remain in Europe for more than two years after Germany’s surrender. Churchill was privately appalled.
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