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Paul

pwaring@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 1 year, 2 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@fosstodon.org

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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)

Currently Reading (View all 9)

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Richard Pevear, Alexandre Dumas: Three Musketeers (2008, Penguin Books, Limited)
Adrian Goldsworthy: The Fall of Carthage (Paperback, 2007, Cassell)
Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet: Madly, Deeply (2022, Canongate Books)

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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

42% complete! Paul has read 21 of 50 books.

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reviewed Risky Business by Ray Fisman

Ray Fisman, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein: Risky Business (Paperback, Yale University Press) 3 stars

Interesting but US bias

3 stars

The general points in this book are interesting, but let down somewhat by a US bias (e.g. that health insurance problems can't be solved because of selection, even though sensible countries have universal state-provided cover funded by taxation).