Marie Kondo made bookworms butthurt the world over by saying that books were clutter and that your personal library should be limited to 30 books.  Actually I don’t really know what Marie Kondo said. I didn’t watch her Netflix series “Tidying Up” because it sounds like a duller version of Trinny and Susannah. If your […]

It’s hard to find really great book recommendations. Not because nobody’s giving them. But because there are too many. I’m personally subscribed to about fifty different book newsletters (a small slice of what’s available) and each newsletter typically comes with anywhere from 10-20 different book recommendations. Quick rough maths… Lets say 50 book recommendation newsletters […]

You remember that scene from Good Will Hunting? The bar scene where Matt Damon’s character gives that creepy academic parrot an intellectual smackdown? It’s that kind of schooling I wish I’d been able to give a few students at Oxford. There was never any real thinking done in that institution of “education”. Every debate, discussion, […]

Penguin Classics did something really cool and unique to celebrate their 80th anniversary a few years back. They released 80 of these little pocket-sized excerpts from some of their best works. And they sold them in the UK for 80p a volume. Before I got the Penguin Little Black Classics Box Set, I picked up a […]