Go Tell It on the Mountain
- James Baldwin
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Julius Caesar and the Roman People
Book by Robert Morstein-Marx
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Saturday, September 2, 2023
gothic - Stoker, M R James, H P Lovecraft, Shelley, Zofloya...
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Victorian Horror
Dracula's Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Et. Al
- richard dalby
the black reaper - Bernard Capes
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Lafcadio hearn
done - Japanese Ghost Stories [Penguin]
out of the east
in ghostly japan
kokoro
shadowings
japanese goblin poetry
Le Fanu -
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
Uncle Silas
The House by the Churchyard
done - Carmilla
[have] Tess of d'ubervilles
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Bram Stoker
[historical but not fully factual][inspired Bram Stoker] Foxe's Book of MartyrsSomething in the Blood - David J Skal (bio of Stoker)
[have] Bleak House (Dickens)
Arthur Conan Doyle - gothic tales
[mostly done] M R James:http://www.thin-ghost.org/
H P Lovecraft:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
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Halloween Books:
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake https://bit.ly/2SqaYQW
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer http://tinyurl.com/yydzbocp
A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3lbLR0M
In the Woods by Tana French https://bit.ly/3ndqEp1
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman https://bit.ly/36t2FMD
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire https://bit.ly/3jnMiEF
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi https://bit.ly/2GyTPC9
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson https://bit.ly/3cXaJXi
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://bit.ly/3laiThB
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury https://bit.ly/2GmLFgj
Perfume by Patrick Süskind https://bit.ly/2Gq0778
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid https://bit.ly/3n8nW3Y
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter https://bit.ly/36vENrE
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson https://bit.ly/3cW9He7
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins https://bit.ly/2Suv3Wd
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://bit.ly/2HThldI
Dracula by Bram Stoker https://bit.ly/30tT7x9
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James https://bit.ly/3imgpLq
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier https://bit.ly/2EY2y0f
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov https://bit.ly/2Snhqs1
The Overstory by Richard Powers https://bit.ly/3nfKmQY
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack https://bit.ly/3lbu6hW
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner https://bit.ly/33wtuxH
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters https://bit.ly/3cUsGpf
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin https://bit.ly/36w50Xc
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke https://bit.ly/30wGUrs
The Secret History by Donna Tartt https://bit.ly/34nrXJq
City of Saints & Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3io8rkN
Rebecca Review: https://bit.ly/36vHjOM
Solar Bones Review: https://bit.ly/36qAePr
Fingersmith Review: https://bit.ly/30vphIG
The Fifth Season Review: https://bit.ly/3lnfCMj (BLOG)/ https://bit.ly/34omUbw (YT)
City of Saints and Madmen Review: https://bit.ly/34lMSML
Texts:
- The Lair of the White Worm [Bram Stoker, last book]
- The Jewel of the Seven Stars [Bram Stoker, his best written aside from Dracula]
- Under the Sunset - Book by Bram Stoker (for children?)
- Under the Sunset - Book by Bram Stoker (for children?)
Best films:
1922 - Nosferatu
1933 - Bela Lugosi
1959 - Christopher Lee
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[have] Bleak House (Dickens)
Arthur Conan Doyle - gothic tales
[mostly done] M R James:http://www.thin-ghost.org/
H P Lovecraft:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
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Halloween Books:
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake https://bit.ly/2SqaYQW
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer http://tinyurl.com/yydzbocp
A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3lbLR0M
In the Woods by Tana French https://bit.ly/3ndqEp1
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman https://bit.ly/36t2FMD
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire https://bit.ly/3jnMiEF
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi https://bit.ly/2GyTPC9
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson https://bit.ly/3cXaJXi
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://bit.ly/3laiThB
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury https://bit.ly/2GmLFgj
Perfume by Patrick Süskind https://bit.ly/2Gq0778
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid https://bit.ly/3n8nW3Y
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter https://bit.ly/36vENrE
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson https://bit.ly/3cW9He7
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins https://bit.ly/2Suv3Wd
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://bit.ly/2HThldI
Dracula by Bram Stoker https://bit.ly/30tT7x9
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James https://bit.ly/3imgpLq
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier https://bit.ly/2EY2y0f
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov https://bit.ly/2Snhqs1
The Overstory by Richard Powers https://bit.ly/3nfKmQY
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack https://bit.ly/3lbu6hW
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner https://bit.ly/33wtuxH
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters https://bit.ly/3cUsGpf
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin https://bit.ly/36w50Xc
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke https://bit.ly/30wGUrs
The Secret History by Donna Tartt https://bit.ly/34nrXJq
City of Saints & Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3io8rkN
Rebecca Review: https://bit.ly/36vHjOM
Solar Bones Review: https://bit.ly/36qAePr
Fingersmith Review: https://bit.ly/30vphIG
The Fifth Season Review: https://bit.ly/3lnfCMj (BLOG)/ https://bit.ly/34omUbw (YT)
City of Saints and Madmen Review: https://bit.ly/34lMSML
World View & Economics
xx Enlightenment Now (steven pinker)
xx The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (steven pinker)
xx Factfulness (Swedish guy)
xx Anti fragile (also above)
xx facts don’t care about your feelings by Ben Shapiro
(Machiavellian crap) - The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
xx Anti fragile (also above)
xx facts don’t care about your feelings by Ben Shapiro
(Machiavellian crap) - The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
xx - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- remove everything that is fragile - likely to fail, or toxic...
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- remove everything that is fragile - likely to fail, or toxic...
k ... The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley)
- Julian Simon and Stephen Moore
- the tyranny of convenience- Tim Wu
the great demographic reversal
- Manoj Pradhan
The Economy of Cities
- Book by Jane Jacobs
.
Self-help books - resilience ...
The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think- Robert Pantano - kindle
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Book by Carol Dweck
Resilience: Live healthier, perform better https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42443659-resilience
- Paul Donders
Yes to life - Viktor Frankl
xx - Go for No ! Yes is the Destination. No is how You Get There!
Book by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton
- set bigger goals, seek challenges likely to fail and be rejected -> grow! -> eventually, succeed
The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson [from YT Nischa]
xx - The Power of Habit
—- 5 top books
the happiness hypothesis - jonathan haidt
atomic habits
i will teach you to be rich
your journal
subtle art of not giving a fuck
breaking the art of being yourself
—-
[only ok]
(Healthy risk taking) = The Third Door
https://www.bol.com/nl/f/third-door/9200000084337146/
[mental models!]
The Great Mental Models Volume 1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P79P8ST
xxx
When I say no - (assertiveness)
https://www.bol.com/nl/f/when-i-say-no-i-feel-guilty/36509574/
No more mr nice guy
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/no-more-mr-nice-guy/1001004001873304/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008O-G-86290587743-S-854532343178-1001004001873304&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsuP5BRCoARIsAPtX_wHDzZJjZFYR-2vSvE4m_2bdoXlf-ackOE19HBTpl_uFXyI7O-8a8yoaAkp3EALw_wcB
Negotiating
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/Never-Split-the-Difference/9200000070795242/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008M-2JCGNENQKG5CA-246027592286&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1263476&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008M-2JCGNENQKG5CA-246027592286&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7Nj5BRCZARIsABwxDKJZZrfuAo0NlZfQmYU1IJWcnmFcob3MPOut7-FxQqpXB0qqNRwqfgEaArVoEALw_wcB
Journaling (from Nischa)
- law of attraction planner
- the artists way (becoming more creative) (stream of consciousness writing, 3 pages)
- 5 year one line journal (reuse same page for that day of the year)
Atomic Habits
(productivity, change, time)
Book by Maxwell Maltz
Psychology
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- eric fromm:
- The Heart of Man
- Escape from Freedom.
(the art of loving)
- freud: group psychology and the analysis of the ego
k RDPD Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The End of Mental Illness - by Daniel Amen
good - Surrounded By Idiots - Thomas Erikson
Emotions of Normal People
- Marston
Dominance, Influence, Submission/Steadiness, and Compliance/Conscientiousness
(DISM) - covered by "Surrounded by Idiots"
Software, working as a developer, business, startup...
Coder - also assertiveness, boundaries?
https://www.bol.com/nl/f/the-clean-coder/30542706/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008J-VTCEETBYONRDO-312194578747&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1263476&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008J-VTCEETBYONRDO-312194578747&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7Nj5BRCZARIsABwxDKJmvdbcZ-JO5OG9HzmcjlzIxZtuI3ssV0SHj9Jo1jScDXlZSPL1jO4aAnxlEALw_wcB
xx - Hit Refresh [on Microsoft recovery]
xx - Becoming a Technical Leader [from Joep Mx QA]
https://leanpub.com/becomingatechnicalleader
xx - Becoming a Technical Leader [from Joep Mx QA]
https://leanpub.com/becomingatechnicalleader
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