I read 51 books in 2025 (about the same as in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.) With a difference: I used AI to read 44 of them in the last week of the year. Mind blowing The Ants by Bert Hölldobler. Finally, after 20 years of wanting to read it. It lives up to the hype. Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) by Brandon Sanderson. The only fiction I’ve taken notes for. (About 500 points.) Life changing (or at least, perspective changing) ...
Between July 17th and August 22nd, I saw 57 movies and read 7 books. There were Saturdays when I watched four movies back-to-back. (I tried five. Couldn’t stay awake.) Amidst this, I also cooked, cleaned, shopped… and went to office. (Oh yes, I was working 10 hours a day.) And managed to build some interesting sites which I’ll release in a while. But first, let me share the books with you. ...
55 ways to have fun with Google. Comments Dhar 25 Jun 2006 7:59 am: Just finished the book, didn’t find it too interesting. :(( S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:52 am: Me neither. :-(
The Code Book by Simon Singh is the last book I read. It’s also the only non-fiction I managed to finish in two years.
Stars of Amazon – Anita’s article on book reviewers at Amazon. via Anita
Broad and insightful talk by Diamond on why history unfolded differently across continents. Note that he’s talking about why and not how. Based on his book: Guns, Germs and Steel.
Just read Forsyth’s The Veteran. Excellent.
Ender’s Game is a pretty good book.
I bought Built to Last, Archer’s To Cut a Long Story Short, Crichton’s Timeline, Best Practices, and Handy’s The Age of Unreason at Fabmart. It was delivered in 5 days as promised.