Book Notes

These are informal notes and quotes from books I’ve read over the years. I’ve always enjoyed taking notes on my reading, whether to track factoids or save quotes for reference. These are not comprehensive summaries, just the bits I found interesting.

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  • Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
  • This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
  • Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America
  • Shift Happens
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success, and Growth
  • The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
  • The Overstory
  • The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
  • The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums
  • The Midnight Library
  • Lost in the Stream: How Algorithms Redefined the Way Movies Are Made and Watched
  • Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema: A Spiritual Journey
  • The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature’s Most Elusive Birds
  • Is A River Alive?
  • In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
  • Index: A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from the Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy