Recommend a book!

[Altair]

I'm always looking for new books to read and I'm sure other members are too. 
So every post we recommend a book to each other. 
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I will start. 
If you like norse mythology then I recommend The sword of summer by Rick Riordan. It's about a boy who discovers he is a son of a norse god Frey and must track down his weapon. I will can't say much what is about without giving away spoilers. 
None the less 10/10

[Detective Osprey]

The Survivors Dogs. Excellent book series. Cannot recommend it enough. 10/10.

[JHG]

Anyone up for The Dinosaur Lords? Dinosaurs+Knights=Awesome!

[Moonshroom]

"Battleground: Prussia": Long and a little tedious... and yet, enriching like few others.

[Nick]

I recommend a book I just finished. It's called Nudge: The Final Edition by two economists, Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein.

The book covers how we can leverage choice architecture - the design of option presentation - to facilitate the best outcomes for consumers without resorting to coercion or interfering with personal agency.

Such topics that are covered include organ donation, credit cards, home mortgage, insurance, and climate change.

[Pyrite]

I recently read The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin, and I've been slightly obsessed with it ever since. It is very loosely based on the real-life murders perpetrated by the Axeman of New Orleans in the 1910s, and features the attempts of Ida, a secretary longing for a career in the police who happens to be friends with real-life musician Louis Armstrong, Michael, a disheveled cop ostracised by the rest of his workplace, and Luca, a mafioso coming out of a long jail sentence, to catch him.

If you like mysteries set in older times, as I do, you might well enjoy this one! Celestin does a great job of painting the picture of both the grand and dilapidated parts of New Orleans, and the twist is guessable but well hidden. I will say however, that the constantly switching between multiple characters and perspectives isn't for everyone, so do take that into account if you decide to read it.

[Nick]

@ Altair , I don't know you very well, but from what I gather, you're curious and somewhat young. As such, I would like to personally recommend to you a book that I wish I had when I was in my teens. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin; it made me far more resilient and accepting of the often long & tumultuous road to learning.

Let me give you an inspiring sample from the book:

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire. Consider Michael Jordan. It is common knowledge that Jordan made more last-minute shots to win the game for his team than any other player in the history of the NBA. What is not so well known, is that Jordan also missed more last-minute shots to lose the game for his team than any other player in the history of the game. What made him the greatest was not perfection, but a willingness to put himself on the line as a way of life. Did he suffer all those nights when he sent twenty thousand Bulls fans home heartbroken? Of course. But he was willing to look bad on the road to basketball immortality.

Waitzkin, Josh. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (p. 114). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

[Altair]

@ Altair , I don't know you very well, but from what I gather, you're curious and somewhat young. As such, I would like to personally recommend to you a book that I wish I had when I was in my teens. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin; it made me far more resilient and accepting of the often long & tumultuous road to learning.

Let me give you an inspiring sample from the book:

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire. Consider Michael Jordan. It is common knowledge that Jordan made more last-minute shots to win the game for his team than any other player in the history of the NBA. What is not so well known, is that Jordan also missed more last-minute shots to lose the game for his team than any other player in the history of the game. What made him the greatest was not perfection, but a willingness to put himself on the line as a way of life. Did he suffer all those nights when he sent twenty thousand Bulls fans home heartbroken? Of course. But he was willing to look bad on the road to basketball immortality.

Waitzkin, Josh. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (p. 114). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

I am not old by any means. I am thirty though. So that is not somewhat young. 
Thank you for the recommendation. It's very much appreciated. Looks right down my alley. Just ordered it.

[Nick]

@ Altair , I don't know you very well, but from what I gather, you're curious and somewhat young. As such, I would like to personally recommend to you a book that I wish I had when I was in my teens. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin; it made me far more resilient and accepting of the often long & tumultuous road to learning.

Let me give you an inspiring sample from the book:

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire. Consider Michael Jordan. It is common knowledge that Jordan made more last-minute shots to win the game for his team than any other player in the history of the NBA. What is not so well known, is that Jordan also missed more last-minute shots to lose the game for his team than any other player in the history of the game. What made him the greatest was not perfection, but a willingness to put himself on the line as a way of life. Did he suffer all those nights when he sent twenty thousand Bulls fans home heartbroken? Of course. But he was willing to look bad on the road to basketball immortality.

Waitzkin, Josh. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (p. 114). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

I am not old by any means. I am thirty though. So that is not somewhat young. 
Thank you for the recommendation. It's very much appreciated. Looks right down my alley. Just ordered it.

I'm glad to hear that the book is of interest. And for the record, I do think 30 is somewhat young, but apologies if I came across as belittling. For what little it's worth, I think it's great that to maintain curiosity as long as you have:

You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"

These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.

You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

[Altair]

@ Altair , I don't know you very well, but from what I gather, you're curious and somewhat young. As such, I would like to personally recommend to you a book that I wish I had when I was in my teens. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin; it made me far more resilient and accepting of the often long & tumultuous road to learning.

Let me give you an inspiring sample from the book:

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire. Consider Michael Jordan. It is common knowledge that Jordan made more last-minute shots to win the game for his team than any other player in the history of the NBA. What is not so well known, is that Jordan also missed more last-minute shots to lose the game for his team than any other player in the history of the game. What made him the greatest was not perfection, but a willingness to put himself on the line as a way of life. Did he suffer all those nights when he sent twenty thousand Bulls fans home heartbroken? Of course. But he was willing to look bad on the road to basketball immortality.

Waitzkin, Josh. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (p. 114). Free Press. Kindle Edition.

I am not old by any means. I am thirty though. So that is not somewhat young. 
Thank you for the recommendation. It's very much appreciated. Looks right down my alley. Just ordered it.

I'm glad to hear that the book is of interest. And for the record, I do think 30 is somewhat young, but apologies if I came across as belittling. For what little it's worth, I think it's great that to maintain curiosity as long as you have:

You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"

These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.

You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

Everything always thinks I am younger than I really am in life. I have always been a bit young for a my age. So I just assumed it translated on forums. You were not be belittling at all. 
I like that quote about Carl Segan. I was like that throughout my childhood into my teens and my 20's. It was a turn of the switch ending in my 20's.  
Not sure if you seen the movie searching for bobby fisher.  I just watched it and its about Josh Waltzkin early childhood. I recommend it.