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Paul

pwaring@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

Reader of a wide range of genres, including a lot of non-fiction. I’m an active member of a sci-fi book club and occasional attendee at a post-apocalyptic book club.

Trying this out as an alternative and hopefully replacement for Goodreads, though I'm posting on both sites at the moment.

I don't follow from here, my main Fediverse account is: @pwaring@social.xk7.net

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Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, Olivier Sibony: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021, Little, Brown Spark)
J. V. Jones: The Baker's Boy (The Book of Words) (Paperback, 1996, Orbit)
Andrew Steele: Ageless (2020, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Richard Pevear, Alexandre Dumas: Three Musketeers (2008, Penguin Books, Limited)
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Beth Buelow: Introvert Entrepreneur (2016, Penguin Random House)
Adrian Goldsworthy: The Fall of Carthage (Paperback, 2007, Cassell)

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Frank Herbert: Dune Messiah (2017, Hodder & Stoughton)
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Christopher Clark: Prisoners of Time (2021, Penguin Books, Limited)
Alistair Cole: French Politics and Society (2017, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge)

2025 Reading Goal

57% complete! Paul has read 29 of 50 books.

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reviewed Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Phil Knight, Philip H. Knight: Shoe Dog (2016, Scribner) 3 stars

"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO …

Only covers the early days of Nike

2 stars

This book disappointingly only covers the early days of Nike, and stops once the company has gone public. Towards the end, the author also tries to brush off the criticism levelled at Nike (and other clothing companies) for how workers were treated in some of the factories used to manufacture their goods.