I’ve been reading up on business and distraction (most recently Celeste Headlee’s book Do Nothing) and for some reason, I didn’t think to read about how busyness related to Christianity; a glaring omission given that I try to live out Christianity the best I can. Somehow, though, I stumbled upon An Unhurried Life in the… Read More Book Review: An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling
This is one of those books that I thought was about one thing (A) but it was actually about another (B) but B turned out to be so interesting that I didn’t mind that it wasn’t about A. At first, I thought that City of Light, City of Poison was going to be about La… Read More Book Review: City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker
When my sister found out that my cell group is focusing on community, she recommended that I read her copy of God’s New Community, which she left behind when she moved to New Zealand. God’s New Community looks at various New Testament verses and expounds on what Church really mean. It’s not a building but… Read More Book Review: God’s New Community by Graham Beynon
What makes the English village so unique? Why does have have such a romanticised image in the minds of so many people (including me, although I’m not even a citizen of the UK)? And is it really dead? In The Village News, Tom Fort visits twenty-two villages in England and declares that the village isn’t… Read More Book Review: The Village News by Tom Fort
I’ve been seeing this book on bookstagram and after reading it, I realised that Do Nothing was what I expected How to Do Nothing to be. Broken into two main sections, Do Nothing looks into the ‘cult of efficiency’ and how we can escape from it. The first section traces the West’s, in particular, America’s… Read More Book Review: Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
I thought that I’ve already read this for a university class a long, long time ago, but apparently not! The Attention Merchants charts the rise of modern attention-grabbers, starting with the first newspapers and posters. While you could probably piece together the story by reading books about the main players (newspapers, Google, Oprah, etc), The… Read More Book Review: The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
Finding a copy of Trick Mirror in the library is like finding a needle in a haystack. Each library has a copy but that copy seems to be perpetually borrowed and I wasn’t willing to pay to reserve a copy. So when I found out that my local library had a copy available, I decided… Read More Book Review: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
It’s a little weird to read about shopping (or rather, shopping less) right after a book about economics, but Prosperity Without Growth and A Life Less Throwaway actually work together pretty well. Prosperity Without Growth makes an argument about growth and the economy, and A Life Less Throwaway narrows things down to the individual, as… Read More Book Review: A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button
I don’t normally see the National Reading Movement SG account share economic books so when it talked about Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson, I made a note to borrow it. It’s been some time since I read a serious economics book and I wanted to challenge my brain a little. In Prosperity Without Growth,… Read More Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
It’s the mid-19th century and London is a city. Almost miraculously, a group of people have organised themselves into a class of scavengers, taking on the responsibility of most modern sanitation departments and thus helping two million people get rid of their waste. However, this effort does have some cracks and not all waste is… Read More Book Review: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson