Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson is an excellent book for those interested in learning more about the basics of photography… and especially those who have an expensive DSLR camera lying around but can only use it in Auto mode. I have been trying to learn more about photography, and in that process I picked up [...]
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If you’ve known me longer than 5 minutes, then you’ve most likely been forced to look at one of my many spreadsheets. I put everything in spreadsheets: from simple things like bills and weight loss to more complex equations like which city to move to and what camera to buy. When I read GRETCHEN! Rubin’s [...]
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Bruce Cumings’ The Korean War: A History (July 2010) is worth a read if you’re looking for a quick (288 pages) primer. The Korean War (1950-1953) is often referred to as the Forgotten War… and for good reason. There’s not much good to come out of it on the American side (we lost, we helped [...]
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Cousin Emily suggested I read Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project ($15 @ Barnes & Noble). It is a book about the author’s one year project to make herself happier. As GRETCHEN! says (she’s so high-strung I can only think of her in ALLCAPS and exclamation points), sometimes we aren’t happy doing the things that [...]
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I just finished Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. I bought this precisely because I wanted a non-sensational account of life in North Korea. I didn’t want to read about nuclear weapons or labor camps. In many respects, the handful of people Demick interviews do lead normal lives. They go to [...]
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I just spent the entire weekend in Seoul and had a lot of time to read on the bus and waiting for friends. I’ve been reading the hefty 2666, but decided I didn’t want to lug a 906 page book around Seoul for three days, so I brought my nook (which I love and recommend). [...]
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This summer, a few of the bloggers I follow (namely Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein) joined an online book club to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace… having read a bit of Infinite Jest in the past, I knew I could not stomach it; however, the book club was so popular they have decided [...]
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