Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Vance, J.D.This lead further to generally trying to understand the experience of women and minorities in the world. Realizing the white story is a very narrow angle of history, I sought to balance out my understanding with the perspective of marginalized people. This began with the exceptionally well-timed Hillbilly Elegy and the more technical White Trash. I began the year, like many city dwelling liberals attempting to understand the Trump phenomenon. Special thanks to Marc Bodnick’s book recommendation Facebook requests for inspiring many of these. Here are 80ish of the books I read this year, just those that I gave four or five stars on Goodreads. DuBois and James Baldwin, the year that Max Tegmark opened my mind to the multiverse, and Robert Sapolsky helped me understand that mind better. Four months later, I set it to 60, then 80, finally sticking with 100, which I recently surpassed.Ģ017 was a hell of a year, but I’ll remember it as the year I learned from W.E.B. So I set myself a slightly higher goal of reading 37 books. In 2017, I chose to focus on health, but didn’t want to leave behind my obsession with reading. To that end, I set myself an aggressive reading target and spent the year working on the small hadron collider that is the human brain. In 2016, I chose learning as my focus area.
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