Book 29 for 2016: Money – The Unauthorized Biography

Never has my standard $5 note bookmark looked more at home than poking out the top of this book about money!
“What is money, and how does it work?” these are the seemingly obvious questions, with no doubt interesting and counterintuitive answers, that this book hopes to answer. Myself, all I can picture in my mind when this question is raised is the scene from The Simpsons where Homer’s brain has to quickly explain to him the functioning of money, so that he can hope to purchase more peanuts.
Look like it should be an interesting read, and hopefully I can crank this one out before August comes to an end!
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Book 28 for 2016: The First

Book 28 for 2016: The First
Last week’s read, The Vital Question by Nick Lane, was the hardest book to get through this year (with Superintelligence a close second). Now that doesn’t mean this is a bad book, or a book I regret reading. It was simply a hard read. The book is so far from what my strengths are, and so technical, that I really had to take time trying to understand the concepts at play.
But boy am I glad I did.
The ultimate aim of the book is such a lofty one (the explanation of why life is how it is, and how it got that way), that I am really glad that I managed to get through it. I have a better understanding now not only of how life functions, but the fascinating way that scientists are slowly beginning to understand how life can arise out of non-life.
All that being said however, I am glad to get a break from talk of adenosine triphosphate, ribosomes, and proton gradients. That’s why this week’s is a simple Kindle book, pulled from the daily sales emailed mercilessly to me constantly by the good people of Amazon.
Not sure what it will be like, but sounds like a nice mindless read.
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