Five Stars

Ties math, art, and music together in a really interesting way. By no means an easy read, but absolutely fascinating.

• 1979
• Non-Fiction
• Cognitive science
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Philosophy

I’ve since read a lot of valid criticism about the book, so unfortunately best to treat this a bit more as entertainment / messy theorizing than purely factual. Still, I absolutely loved this when I read it and it put me on a path to read all sorts of history, evolutionary biology, and linguistics books.

• 1997
• Non-Fiction
• Evolutionary biology
• Anthropology
• History
• Geography

I’m the right age, and right amount of nerd, for this to hit the spot.

• 2011
• Science Fiction
• Video Games

This book really helped my mental health in my 20s, but apparently it also faces replication issues like many of the pop-psych books in the last few decades.

• 2004
• Psychology
• Non-Fiction

Absolutely loved this when it came out, not sure how it holds up now.

• 2000
• Non-Fiction
• Marketing
• Social Science
• Psychology

One of the best design books ever written

• 1993
• Comics Culture
• Design
• Non-Fiction

Great all around, especially how Edgar Wright integrated the music into everything.

• 2017
• Action
• Crime

Great soundtrack too.

• 2024
• Drama
• Romance
• Tennis

This first musical I’ve actually liked.

• 2020
• History
• Drama
• Musical

One of the best family movies I’ve seen in a long time, worth watching even if you don’t have kids.

• 2022
• Adventure
• Animation
• Comedy
• Family

Great story and visually stunning

• 2023
• Animation
• Action
• Adventure
• Science Fiction
• Superhero

They did a fantastic job with the art style here, and a great story. Far and away the best Spiderman movie.

• 2018
• Animation
• Action
• Adventure
• Science Fiction
• Superhero

• 2016
• Animation
• Adventure
• Family
• Comedy