books

Books I Have To Read

Mar 18th

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Bryan Caplan of Econlog has a good list of books with enough of a commentary to want to go out and buy them!
Tyler Cowen seems to have set off this trend, actually.
Is it enough to get me to write my own list?

Spring cleaning

Feb 28th

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The origins of spring cleaning are probably connected with the arrival of spring which had people getting their summer clothes out and placing the cold weather clothes back into shelves. In tropical climes, this is not a necessity and one can be a pack rat for years accumulating stuff.
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Greek mythology

Feb 8th

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A rebuttal to the Percy Jackson books. The series refers to Kronos as the Lord of Time. This appeared incorrect to me. But then I thought the author is a teacher of Greek Mythology and my memories are from school days and are probably rusted. So I turned to my trusted Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology More >

Percy Jackson books

Feb 6th

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I’ve been reading the Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan recently. It is a series of five books (now on my last one) following the adventures of Perseus Jackson, a “half-blood” son of Poseidon and a mortal. It has a nice premise that the old Greek gods are still around and heroes (one parent is More >