Another Week In the Books Alexander the Great Reader
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My weekly book thoughts, books I'm currently reading, books I have finished, books I added to my reading list, books mentioned on podcasts I listened to, and my book stats. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anotherweekinthebooks/support
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WEEK 7: 05/27/2019 - 06/02/2019
𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 0𝟓/27 - 06/02
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
* “The Road to Unfreedom” while reading “The Assault on Intelligence”
* “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” while reading “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”
* “The One Thing” while reading “A Curious Mind”
* “Compound Effect” while reading “A Curious Mind”
* “When I stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead” while reading “A Curious Mind”
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
* “Crushing” by T.D. Jakes
* “Infinity” by Jonathan Hickman
* “Happier” by Tal Ben-Shahar
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝
* “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass
* “The Assault on Intelligence” Michael Hayden
* “Show Your Work!” By Austin Kleon
* “Unlearn” by Humble the Poet
* “A Curious Mind” by Brian Grazer
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
* The Age of Surveillance by Shoshana Zuboff (James Altucher)
* Frederick Douglass by David Blight (BooksandBeers)
* The Game of Nations by Miles Copeland (Books of Titans)
* The siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov(Books of Titans)
* Saudi, Inc. by Ellen Wald (Books of Titans)
* Barracoon by Zora Hurston (B&N)
* The American Spirit by David McCullough (B&N)
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭
* EconTalk with David Epstein
* James Altucher Show with Robert McNamee
* Making Sense with Adam Grant
-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬
* Books for month: 2
* Pages for month: 544
* Books for year: 99
* Pages for year: 24,815
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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WEEK 6: 05/20/2019 - 05/26/2019
𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝟓/20-𝟓/26
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
* “The Filter Bubble” while reading “Zucked”
* “The Road to Unfreedom” while reading “Zucked”
* “Thinking, fast and slow” while reading “Zucked”
* “Principles” while reading “Trillion Dollar Coach”
* “Radical Candor” while reading “Trillion Dollar Coach”
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
* “The Assault on Intelligence” Michael Hayden
* Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
* Crushing by T.D. Jakes
* Infinity by Jonathan Hickman
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝
* Black Panther Vol.1 by Christopher Priest
* Zucked by Roger McNamee
* The Four Horsemen by Christopher Hitchens
* The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
* The New Right by Michael Malice (JRE)
* Move fat and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin (Zucked)
* World Without Mind (Zucked)
* The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick (Zucked)
* Brotopia by Emily Chang (Zucked)
* The Circle by Dave Eggers (Zucked)
* After On by Rob Reid (Zucked)
* Irresistible by Adam Alter (Zucked)
* Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras (Zucked)
* It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd (Zucked)
* Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci (Zucked)
* Messing with the Enemy by Clint West (Zucked)
* Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (Zucked)
* Mindhunter by John Douglas (JRE)
* The Upstarts by Brad Stone (The Everything Store)
* Automate This by Christopher Steiner (Customer bought)
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭
* JRE with Michael Malice
* James Altucher with Rich Karlgaard
-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬
* Books for month: 20
* Pages for month: 5,028
* Books for year: 94
* Pages for year: 23,505
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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WEEK 5: 05/13/2019 - 05/19/2019
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
* “Can't Hurt Me” while reading “Crushing”
* “Antifragile” while reading “Crushing”
* “Can't Hurt Me” while reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”
* “Mindset” while reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Black Panther by Christopher Priest
* Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
* Zucked by Roger McNamee
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝
* Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen
* Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran
* Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
* Crushing by T.D. Jakes
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
* God in the ICU by Dave Walker
* Conscious by Annaka
* No Sweat by Michelle Segar
* The Tools by Phil Stutz
* Awareness by Anthony de Mello
* The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
* Jaws by Sandra Kahn
* The assault on Intelligence by Michael Hayden
* The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭
* Aubrey Marcus with Mark Manson
* Impact Theory with Mark Manson
* JRE with Annie Jacobsen
-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬
* Books for month: 14
* Pages for month: 3,294
* Books for year: 88
* Pages for year: 21,771
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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WEEK 4: 05/06/2019 - 05/12/2019
WEEK OF 5/6-5/12
-Book Thoughts
* “Open” by Andre Agassi while reading “The Great Alone”
* “The Great Gatsby” while reading “The Great Alone”
* “Sh*t My Dad Says” while reading “Dad Is Fat”
* “Trust me, I’m Lying” while reading “The Filter Bubble”
-Books I’m reading
* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran
* Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
* Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Books I finished
* The Everything Store by Brad Stone
* Thanos: Redemption by Jim Starlin
* The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
* Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
* The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus
* The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
* Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
-Books added to Reading List
* The Remains of the Day
* Memos from the Chairman by Alan Greenberg
* The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks Jr.
* Lean Thinking by James Womack
* The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson
* The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
* The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
* The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
* Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
* Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer
* Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt
-Books on Podcast
* School of Greatness with Mark Manson
* The James Altucher Show with Eric Schmidt
* Tim Ferriss with Derek Sivers
-Stats
* Books for month: 8
* Pages for month: 2,160
* Books for year: 82
* Pages for year: 20,637
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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WEEK 3: 04/29/2019-05/05/2019
𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝟒/𝟐𝟗-𝟓/𝟓
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
* “Fight Club” while reading “Thanos: Infinity Abyss”
* “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch while reading “The Unwinding of the Miracle”
* “Educated,” “A Child Called It,” & “Glass House” while reading “The Great Alone” & “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
* Thanos: Redemption by Jim Starlin
* The Everything Store by Brad Stone
* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
* The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝
* The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
* Thanos: Infinity Abyss by Jim Starlin
* The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
* Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes
* A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭
* 3 Books Podcast with Mark Manson
-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬
* Books for month: 2
* Pages for month: 400
* Books for year: 76
* Pages for year: 18,877
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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WEEK 2: 04/22/2019-04/28/2019
WEEK OF 4/22-4/28
-Book Thoughts
* While Reading “The Everything Store” by Brad Stone I taught about “Elon Musk” by Ashlee Vance, “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, and “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou
-Books I’m reading
* The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
* The Everything Store by Brad Stone
* Thanos: Infinity Abyss by Jim Starlin
-Books I finished
* How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
* Shit my dad says by Justin Halpern
* Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
-Books added to Reading List
* The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
* Small Giants by Bo Burlington
* Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
* What If? by Randall Munroe
* Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
* The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
* Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Stephen Mitchell
* Hard time by Shaun Attwood
* Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery
* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
* Everyday by David Levithan
* A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
* The Four Horsemen by Christopher Hitchens
-Books on Podcast
* Joe Rogan with Graham Hancock
* Tim Ferris with Amanda Palmer
* Tim Ferris with Kevin Systrom
* Valuetainment with Shaun Attwood
-Stats
* Books for month: 18
* Pages for month: 4,431
* Books for year: 73
* Pages for year: 18,112
-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b
-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h
-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD
-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9
-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC
-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH
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