Reading is one of my favorite hobbies, but I realized a while ago that merely reading without any kind of additional reflection felt incredibly empty to me. Not only does my terrible memory lead me to very quickly forget the characters, content, and even the title of the books that I had just read, but the lack of doing any critical thinking leads me to feel like my brain is being filled up with words without being able to return some of those words back to paper. Since then, I've really gotten into doing Goodreads reviews, where I can share my thoughts and ideas with both my future self, as well as with the world. However, Goodreads does not seem to support collecting all of my book reviews in a single place, so I decided to do it the good ol' fashioned way: by collecting a bunch of hyperlinks and putting them all ine one simple table. Hope you enjoy!
| Title | Author | Review Link | Stars | Date Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Good and Beautiful God | James Bryan Smith | Review | 4/5 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Midnight Sun | Stephanie Meyer | Review | 3/5 | 16 Dec 2020 |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | Review | 3/5 | 22 Nov 2020 |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman | Review | 4/5 | 11 Nov 2020 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas S. Kuhn | Review | 5/5 | 09 Nov 2020 |
| The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August | Claire North | Review | 3/5 | 05 Nov 2020 |
| Team of Teams | Stanely McChrystal | Review | 4/5 | 03 Oct 2020 |
| Story of Christianity, Vol. 2 | Justo L. Gonzalez | Review | 4/5 | 20 Sep 2020 |
| Fear and Trembling | Soren Kierkegaard | Review | 4/5 | 11 Sep 2020 |
| Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | Review | 4/5 | 04 Sep 2020 |
| Principles for Success | Ray Dalio | Review | 2/5 | 28 Aug 2020 |
| Chicago Poems | Carl Sandburg | Review | 4/5 | 27 Aug 2020 |
| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | Review | 5/5 | 25 Aug 2020 |
| The Second Mountain | David Brooks | Review | 2/5 | 24 Aug 2020 |
| The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Ken Liu | Review | 6/5 | 16 Aug 2020 |
| Why Fish Don't Exist | Lulu Miller | Review | 5/5 | 12 Aug 2020 |
| Tuxedo Park | Jennet Connant | Review | 2/5 | 10 Aug 2020 |
| Minor Feelings | Cathy Park Hong | Review | 4/5 | 10 Aug 2020 |
| We Have No Idea | Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson | Review | 3/5 | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Children of the New World | Alexander Weinstein | Review | 2/5 | 20 Jul 2020 |
| Science: The Endless Frontier | Vannevar Bush | Review | 4/5 | 19 Jul 2020 |
| Miss Leavitt's Stars | George Johnson | Review | 4/5 | 18 Jul 2020 |
| How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | Review | 4/5 | 17 Jul 2020 | Cadillac Desert | Marc Reisner | Review | 5/5 | 13 Jul 2020 | Assignment: Shanghai | Jack Birns | Review | 2/5 | 08 Jul 2020 | The Longing for Less | Kyle Chayka | Review | 3/5 | 06 Jul 2020 | Strangers Drowning | Larissa MacFarquhar | Review | 5/5 | 25 Jun 2020 | Indistractable | Nir Eyal | Review | 1/5 | 22 Jun 2020 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | Review | X/5 | 22 Jun 2020 |
| Dept. of Speculation | Jenny Offill | Review | 4/5 | 20 Jun 2020 |
| The Oxford Handbook of Free Will | Robert Kane | Review | 4/5 | 16 Jun 2020 |
| The Qur'an: A Biography | Bruce B. Lawrence | Review | 3/5 | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | Review | 4/5 | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Saving God from Religion | Robin Meyers | Review | 4/5 | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Together | Vivek Murthy | Review | 3/5 | 03 Jun 2020 |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Review | 5/5 | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Following Jesus in the 'Real World' | Richard C. Lamb Jr. | Review | 4/5 | 31 May 2020 |
| The Once and Future King | T.H. White | Review | 5/5 | 27 May 2020 |
| The Candle in the Wind | T.H. White | Review | 4/5 | 27 May 2020 |
| My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh | Review | 2/5 | 26 May 2020 |
| The Empathy Exams | Leslie Jamison | Review | 2/5 | 24 May 2020 |
| The Ill-Made Knight | T.H. White | Review | 4/5 | 23 May 2020 |
| Exhalation | Ted Chiang | Review | 5/5 | 15 May 2020 |
| Do You Mind If I Cancel? | Gary Janetti | Review | X/5 | 11 May 2020 |
| How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell | Review | 5/5 | 07 May 2020 |
| Dear Girls | Ali Wong | Review | 4/5 | 03 May 2020 |
| Good Faith Collaboration | Joseph Reagle Jr. | Review | 2/5 | 29 Apr 2020 |
| The Queen of Air and Darkness | T. H. White | Review | 4/5 | 23 Apr 2020 |
| The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Ken Liu | Review | 5/5 | 22 Apr 2020 |
| Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshall | Review | 2/5 | 15 Apr 2020 |
| How To | Randall Munroe | Review | 4/5 | 12 Apr 2020 |
| The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know | John L. Allen Jr. | Review | 4/5 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Carse | Review | 3/5 | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Judaism: A very short introduction | Norman Solomon | Review | 4/5 | 05 Apr 2020 |
| Speak Up! | Adora Svitak | Review | 5/5 | 30 Mar 2020 |
| The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle | Review | 4/5 | 29 Mar 2020 |
| Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Review | 4/5 | 29 Mar 2020 |
| The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White | Review | 4/5 | 25 Mar 2020 |
| The Brightest Fell | Nipul Chowdhury | Review | 3/5 | 22 Mar 2020 |
| The Origin of Others | Toni Morrison | Review | 4/5 | 17 Mar 2020 |
| The Nancy Pelosi Way | Christine Pelosi | Review | 2/5 | 19 Mar 2020 |
| Take this Bread | Sara Miles | Review | 5/5 | 16 Mar 2020 |
| The Diaries of Adam and Eve | Mark Twain | Review | 2/5 | 09 Mar 2020 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | Review | 4/5 | 08 Mar 2020 |
| Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | Review | 5/5 | 25 Feb 2020 |
| Invisible Planets | translated by Ken Liu | Review | 5/5 | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | Review | 4/5 | 15 Feb 2020 |
| Vacationland | John Hodgman | Review | 3/5 | 27 Jan 2020 |
| Everything Happens for a Reason | Kate Bowler | Review | 4/5 | 27 Jan 2020 |
| This Book is Overdue! | Marilyn Johnson | Review | 2/5 | 27 Jan 2020 |
| Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die | Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno | Review | 5/5 | 19 Jan 2020 |
| Soonish | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith | Review | 4/5 | 18 Jan 2020 |
| The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | Review | 4/5 | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert Kiyosaki | Review | 1/5 | 14 Jan 2020 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Bible | Timothy Beal | Review | 3/5 | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Artemis | Andy Weir | Review | 3/5 | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Armada | Ernest Cline | Review | 1/5 | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Review | 5/5 | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | Review | 2/5 | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Night Hawks | Charles Johnson | Review | 1/5 | 29 Dec 2019 |
| A Philosophy of Walking | Frederic Gros | Review | 5/5 | 29 Dec 2019 |
| Candide | Voltaire | Review | 5/5 | 22 Dec 2019 |
| Where the Forest Meets the Stars | Glendy Vanderah | Review | 3/5 | 22 Dec 2019 |
| That Wild Country | Mark Kenyon | Review | 5/5 | 20 Dec 2019 |
| Spaceman of Bohemia | Jaroslav Kalfar | Review | 2/5 | 12 Dec 2019 |
| Because Internet | Gretchen McCulloch | Review | 5/5 | 11 Dec 2019 |
| The Signal and the Noise | Nate Silver | Review | 4/5 | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Hopper | Rolf Gunter Renner | Review | 5/5 | 07 Dec 2019 |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | Review | 5/5 | 03 Oct 2019 |
| Sync | Steven H. Strogatz | Review | 5/5 | 01 Sep 2019 |
| A Grip of Time | Lauren Kessler | Review | 2/5 | 01 Sep 2019 |
| Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey | Review | 5/5 | 01 Sep 2019 |
| Conscience | Patricia S. Churchland | Review | 5/5 | 29 Jun 2019 |
| Being Mortal | Atul Gawande | Review | 5/5 | 17 May 2019 |