Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Monday, 2 January 2023

My top 5 books from 2022

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There are many ways to assess a year gone by, e.g. money, bonus, new cuountries visited, etc. One particularly useful way is to remember the...
Tuesday, 27 December 2022

How to Be an Existentialist or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses - a book review

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Philosophy is not easy to dumb down - or at least a sophisticated and complex philosophical world view like existentialism. Nonetheless, in ...
Sunday, 9 August 2020

The Swing Trader's Bible by Matthew McCall and Mark Whistler: a book review

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A good introduction to swing trading. The authors do a good job identifying and explaining the multiple tools and instruments most com...
Monday, 8 June 2020

The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester: a book review

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“For in war the character and personality of the leader is decisive in events much more than questions of material.” The Good Shephe...
Monday, 24 September 2018

Secrets of State by Matthew Palmer: a book review

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Secrets of State, a novel written by former US diplomat Matthew Palmer, is a sophisticated work of fiction. In his book Palmer weaves t...
Sunday, 24 June 2018

Confrontation by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed: a book review

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Having lived in Singapore for almost twenty years and as a licensed Singapore Tour Guide I know Singapore well. Academically and ‘in the...
Saturday, 17 March 2018

Gravitas by Caroline Goyder: a book review

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Self-improvement books are a nice way to make one feel good. They energize one while reading. Indeed, we make all sorts of mental promis...
Monday, 14 August 2017

Fault Lines: Stories of 1971 [Pakistan - India war]: a book review

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For those of us are old enough to know there once existed an East Pakistan but young enough to know little other than the nightly air rai...