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Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

This is likely the most important book that I have read in the last couple of years. We are close to losing democracy and social media is playing a dangerous role in this.

If we are to save democracy and safeguard our freedom, we have to understand what has happened and what our options are for going forward.

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

adventurous challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning

challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry by Stephen Alcorn, Catherine Clinton

5.0

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

I wish I’d read this book when I got my diagnosis. It has helped me communicate with my care team and make, what I hope are, good choices. 

If you have a diagnosis, this book will help you chart a course. If you don’t, it’s still a good read and perhaps eat right, exercise, and get your PSA checked yearly. Catching it early yield better options. 

The lack of lgtbq+ focus is mildly annoying and comical at points. I hear the edition will rectify this problem. 

Gradle Dependency Management by Hubert Klein Ikkink

medium-paced

5.0

Well, the book is from 2015 a lot that’s in it still applies. It’s a nice overview with some meat to it. I would recommend that you augmented with the current Gradle documentation as it doesn’t cover anything that happened in the past eight years

Unleashing the Power of the God Code by Gregg Braden, Gregg Braden
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

As allegory maybe the book is interesting but when it started on intelligent design ideas I was done.  

It seems like a house of card with phantom patterns supporting it. 

My tolerance for bullshit reached it limit and I was done