@Tess0607@bookwyrm.social Yeah, "Thinking fast and slow" was definitely good as well, but also had its lengths. For the Steven Covey book I liked most the epiphany that you decide what you do. It's your choices that shape how others perceive you.
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reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Falko quoted A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Chart after chart. Anxiety reaction. Tension headaches. Hyperventilation. Intoxication. Depression. (These are the diagnoses—the patients’ complaints are cancer, heart attack, blood clots, suffocation.) Each of these patients costs hundreds of dollars including ambulance, X-ray, lab work, EKG. The ambulances get a Medi-Cal sticker, we get a Medi-Cal sticker, the doctor gets a Medi-Cal sticker, and the patient dozes off for a while until a taxi comes to take him home, paid for with a voucher. God, have I become as inhuman as Nurse McCoy? Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.
— A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (Page 92 - 93)
Falko started reading A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short …
@Tess0607@bookwyrm.social Yeah, "Thinking fast and slow" was definitely good as well, but also had its lengths. For the Steven Covey book I liked most the epiphany that you decide what you do. It's your choices that shape how others perceive you.
@Tess0607@bookwyrm.social Hard to single out one book. If I have to pick one , it would be books.mxhdr.net/book/521/s/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people
Falko wants to read Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying …
This sounds like a fun read :)
Falko wants to read Land der Frauen by María Sánchez
María Sánchez ist Landtierärztin - ein körperlich sehr herausfordernder Beruf, der in ihrer Familie bisher …
Just saw a short documentary on arte.tv about this. Remarkable quote: I'm the sister of an only child.
Just saw a short documentary on arte.tv about this. Remarkable quote: I'm the sister of an only child.
Falko reviewed Drystone by Kristie De Garis
disturbing, powerful, encouraging
5 stars
It's painful and disturbing at times. But also beautiful and enticing. Kristie De Garis has a very unique and refreshing style of writing. Her honesty is brutal and she does not spare anyone when she writes about racism, sexism, rape and addiction. Not even herself. It's embarrassing to read as a man what she had to experience and how she was treated. Likely still is treated today. But she found her way to deal with it and not collapse. Instead she puts her experiences into beautiful and powerful sentences, paragraphs, essays and a book eventually.
It's painful and disturbing at times. But also beautiful and enticing. Kristie De Garis has a very unique and refreshing style of writing. Her honesty is brutal and she does not spare anyone when she writes about racism, sexism, rape and addiction. Not even herself. It's embarrassing to read as a man what she had to experience and how she was treated. Likely still is treated today. But she found her way to deal with it and not collapse. Instead she puts her experiences into beautiful and powerful sentences, paragraphs, essays and a book eventually.
Falko wants to read A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Because @kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot recommended it
Falko reviewed The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat
"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but …
This "book" should have been a blog post
1 star
while the gist of this "book" is somewhat useful, it's really not more content then for a short to medium length blog post. The rest if fluff and repetition.
while the gist of this "book" is somewhat useful, it's really not more content then for a short to medium length blog post. The rest if fluff and repetition.
Falko finished reading Drystone by Kristie De Garis
Wow. This was intense but beautiful. I'll have to post some quotes later on.
Wow. This was intense but beautiful. I'll have to post some quotes later on.
Falko wants to read The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson
The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally …
Falko started reading Drystone by Kristie De Garis
Finally being able to read it :)
Falko finished reading The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat
"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but …
This "book" could have been just like 2 or 3 pages. If you read page 101-105 you're good.
This "book" could have been just like 2 or 3 pages. If you read page 101-105 you're good.
Falko started reading The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat
The Art Of The Ask by Ahmed Raafat, Matias Undurraga
"Think of AI like an incredibly knowledgeable, eager-to-please apprentice. It can do amazing things, but it needs clear instructions. Your …