January 2021 Book Recap

It’s amazing what impact a pandemic and restricted social life can have on time management. Yet, it still seems impossible to get everything I want to done each day. Filing the following under “Annoying but True”:

“Lack of time is a lack of priorities.”

— Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans

This pairs well with: If it’s not a “HELL, YES!” it’s a “NO.”

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*Napoleon: A Life* by Andrew Roberts (NF) // [History; biography: An epic beast of a book about the man who only lost 7 of the 60 lifetime battles waged.]

*Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers* by Timothy Ferriss (NF) // [Business; productivity: The epitome of a plethora of information.]

*Misery* by Stephen King (F) // [Horror; thriller: Actually quite relatable. “Art consists of the persistence of memory.”]

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*The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable* by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NF) // [Economics; philosophy: Finally finished Taleb’s Incerto Series. Not my favorite, but still engaging, entertaining, and acerbic.]

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*"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character* by Richard P. Feynman (NF) // [Science; autobiography: Interesting, but also egotistical and surprisingly lecherous.]

*The Wife Upstairs* by Rachel Hawkins (F) // [Thriller; mystery: Not bad, just okay. Anticlimactic and easily forgettable.]

*Dearly: New Poems* by Margaret Atwood (Poetry) //

[Whatever it was has happened:
the battle, the sunny day, the moonlit
slipping into lust, the farewell kiss. The poem
washes ashore like flotsam.]