Paddington looks in the good in all of us and somehow he finds it.
------------------------------------------------------ Henry Brown in Movie Paddington 2
这些书多是第一次读，也有些是一读再读。
Jan 5 - Urban Astronomy: Stargazing from Towns and Suburbs. By Robin Scagell. Worth reading.
Jan 14 - The Future of the Mind: the Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Enpower the Mind. By Michio Kaku. Well worth reading. One of the best science books, a lot of new knowledge based latest studies after year 2010, very informative and well-written, easy to follow and interesting.
Jan 21 - Jungle of Stone: the Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya. By William Carlsen. Worth reading.
Jan 30 - Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. By John L. Stephens. Worth reading.
Feb 7 - The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece. By Eric Siblin. Well worth reading.
Feb 8 - The Caribbean Mystery. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Feb 11 - Empire: What Ruling the World did to the British. By Jeremy Paxman. Well worth reading.
Feb 20 - Physics of the Impossible. By Michio Kaku. Well worth reading.
Feb 26 - The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. By Brian Greene. Not worth reading. Not often a science book can be this bad: so boring and difficult to comprehend, after I spend a long time figure out what he is saying, I think, wait a second, that doesn't make sense, I don't believe that's true. I guess I just don't believe parallel universes.
Mar 5 - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Towns America. By Bill Bryson. Worth reading. It is interesting how things have changed in the past 30 years after Bill Bryson wrote the book in 1988.
Mar 13 - Hyperspace: a Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and 10 Dimensions. By Michio Kaku. Well worth reading. Another fun science book from Mr Kaku. Even the book was written in 1993 and is about string theory and the 10 dimensions, still easy to follow and fun to read. The author is honest and humble, with a good sense of humour.
Mar 21 - The Big Picture: on the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe itself. By Sean Carroll. Some worth reading. It’s a book mixed science and philosophy, sadly to say not I don’t feel it succeeded either.
Mar 30 - Years of Minutes: the Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes. By Andy Rooney. Well worth reading. I love the witty frankness from Andy Rooney in an era that political correctness hasn’t dominated public media.
Apr 10 - The Great Story Ever Told...So Far. By Lawrence Krauss. Well worth reading. A good mixture of science and science history.
Apr 15 - The Rosie Effect. By Graeme Simsion. Worth reading. A novel.
Apr 20 - The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene. By Lydia Pyne and Stephen Pyne. Some worth reading. Didn’t meet my expectations.
Apr 29 - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. By Laura Hillenbrand. Worth reading. A real life story that is more dramatic than any fiction dramas, makes me think about perspectives of life.
May 2 - The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us. By Robert Kaplan. Not worth reading. Although the book was written in year 2012, everything in the book seems so dated.
May 4 - The Three Act Tragedy. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
May 6 - Dumb Witness. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
May 14 - Guns, Germs, and Steel. By Jared Diamond. Well worth reading. A well-written book convincingly explained why it was Europeans conquered and colonized native Americans but not vice versa, i.e., why Aztecs and Inca people didn’t invade Europe and colonize Spain and Portugal.
May 21 - Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492 - 1504. By Laurence Bergreen. Worth reading.
May 26 - Christopher Columbus And the New World for His Discovery. By Filson Young. Worth reading. A book written in 1906 that has a subtly different tone from the book above (published in 2012) about the same historical events.
May 28 - The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career. Some worth reading.
June 1 - The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Around the World, Volume 1. Worth reading.
June 3 - A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. Some worth reading.
June 7- Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Worth reading.
June 17 - Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives. By Dean Buonomano. Well worth reading. A science book but not dry recitation of facts, the chapters on predictability of human minds are fascinating.
June 23 - The Murder at the Vicarage. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
July 5 - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. By Jordan Ellenberg. Worth reading. A well written book about the amazing world of Mathematics in everyday life.
July 10 - The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality. By Michael Talbot. Not worth reading. The books was written in 90's, I guess most of the topics in this book are categorized as pseudoscience now.
July 20 - This House of Sky: Landscape of a Western Mind. By Ivan Doig. Worth reading.
Jul 29 - What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. By Adam Becker. Well worth reading. A good mixture of science and science history, very enjoyable.
Aug 1- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. By A. C. Phillps. The Manchester Physics Series. Worth reading.
Aug 9 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. By David J. Griffiths. Worth reading. Easier to follow than the Manchester one. If only read one Quantum Mechanics book, this is the one.
Aug 17 - The Glass Castle. By Jeannette Walls. Worth Reading. A well written book, I guess for a personal memoir we won't know which stories are totally true.
Aug 25 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. By Yuval Noah Harari. Well worth reading. A book I like a lot.
Sep 5 - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. By Yuval Noah Harari. Worth reading. The first half of the book is great, the second part, the part really talking about the future is a bit disappointing.
Sep 12 - The Martian: A novel. Classroom edition. By Andy Weir. Worth Reading.
Sep 24 - Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. By Michio Kaku. Worth reading.
Sep 27 - The Martian: A novel. By Andy Weir. Well worth Reading. I just have to read the unsanitized version of the book even I have known the story and watched the movie.
Sep 30 - The Provincial Lady In America. By E.M. Delafield. Worth reading. A nice relaxing reading for a rainy Sunday.
Oct 8 - Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City. By Edward Seidensticker. Worth reading. Very interesting stories of how Tokyo evolved in the past 100 years.
Oct 16 - What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier. By James Gleick. Worth reading.
Oct 21 - Metaphors we live by. by George Lakoff. Some worth reading.
Oct 23 - Napoleon's Pyramids. A Novel.By William Dietrich.
Nov 8 - The American Language by H. L. Mencken. Worth reading.
Nov 11 - Crooked House. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Nov 19 - The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. By Jared M. Diamond. Well worth reading.
Nov 28 - The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. By Richard Zacks. Worth reading.
Dec 1 - Brain Fuel: 199 Mind-Expanding Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life. By y Dr. Joe Schwarcz. Some worth reading.
Dec 10 - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne. Worth reading.
Dec 15 - Hidden In Plain Sight 7: The Fine-Tuned Universe. By Andrew
Dec 26 - Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page. By Stuart McLean. well worth reading.
Dec 29 - Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time. By Dean Buonomano. Worth reading.
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