Doubt the Experts

I looked over the remainder of the book and found some things of interest, but there are limitations to correspondences compared to fiction ...

This book is probably more appropriate for academic research than for a casual reading, but I am finding it informative in several respects....

There has been a lapse in my posts because I haven't had much to write about and have been preoccupied with other things. I recently pur...

I am enjoying this book, edited by James T. Boulton, but am reading it at a very slow pace. A more convincing picture of Lawrence emerges th...

I am unable to wean myself completely from literary writing, and, since I find most of it unsatisfactory, I have been looking into new areas...

The remainder of the book is somewhat entertaining, but there is little in it that is new to me. It briefly covers many topics that I've...

This book, by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, delves into areas of cognitive psychology not covered by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast ...

Because I had a DNA test done, I joined Ancestry.com for six months in order to follow up on it, and my membership will be expiring soon. Du...

Since finishing Daniel Kahneman's book, I haven't read much. I have been waterproofing the basement, touching up the paint on the ho...

As with several of the books I've read recently, I became bogged down in this one and grew tired of the text. Nevertheless, it covers an...

The book is moving too slowly for my taste, but it is still worth reading for the research it describes. I am getting the feeling that Kahne...

Part II of the book, which runs from where I left off to the midpoint, is titled Heuristics and Biases. These chapters look at various error...

This bestseller by Daniel Kahneman, published in 2011, covers psychological research from the last few decades, focusing on human cognition....

Because we are having porcelain floor tiles placed in the sunroom, the house has been noisy all week, and we currently have to climb a ladde...

I have been making an effort especially since I retired to read a variety of writings, and since I began this blog in 2014 I have more or le...

Other than the language, I did not find much to like in Blood Meridian . McCarthy took poorly-documented historical events that were chronic...

This isn't a particularly long novel, and I would have finished it by now if I had been more excited by it. Thematically it is similar t...

I'm still not reading much but will continue on Blood Meridian  and comment on it later. I seem to be experiencing a slight malaise whos...

I've read a little of this novel by Cormac McCarthy and am not sure when I'll finish it, since I haven't been reading much latel...

Milosz's writing style is engaging, but his subject matter is frequently of little interest to me, so I don't have much to say about...

I've been reading To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays , by Czeslaw Milosz, and am not sure at this point how much I'll write about ...