What did you read this year?
Laura’s
average rating for
2023
3.9
3.9
I was never a huge *Friends* fan although I did watch it from time to time when it was on back in the day. This book is kind of all over the place, and often repetitive although it must have taken some major cojones for Perry to air all his dirty laundry. He’s wrestled with some terrible demons (alcoholism and narcotics abuse) and lived on the edge amidst the wild fame of *Friends* and the aftermath. After listening to the audiobook (which he rea
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A very brief overview of the vast subject that is horology—the “study of time.” Not so much in theory, although we do touch on Einstein and relativity, more so about the way humans clock the passage. Beginning with the earliest recorded methods of tracking time through the evolution of time pieces and their socioeconomic impact on society (love, wars, wealth, exploitation, even life saving), Struthers packs a lot into 288 pages.
Informative, inte ...more
Informative, inte ...more