December! Time of celebrations, cats, the very special retreat with my closest people and other shenanigans. And of course, books. Many trains to take …

Spent November partly on two episodes of honeymoon (Brno - Vienna - Mariánské Lázně), in Orlické hory, Hamburg and Norway, parts for work, parts for …

October was special. Managed to run purges.rolling.cz in both Czech and international versions, do lots of work and well, got married, hopefully for …

September was good to me. Reasonable amounts of work, starting of the Pirate Academy, prepping the wedding and passing some exams in my doctoral …

I spent June organising battles, running an intense experiential learning course with great people (https://exp.camp/) and, well, working. I read just …

I spent August teaching, vibing, working on a still secret project and most importantly: running 97 Poets of Revachol (poets.rolling.cz) again. And it …

Abundance, but for whom? I finished Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson with a slightly odd feeling: I liked it, I agreed with most of it, I …

(cover of The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Chris Mars) Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010) occupies a singular …

English May was all about preparing Bitva pod Horou, launching Requiem, and working pretty intensely, including a security conference in Kyiv. But …

Sam Wineburg’s Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts is one of those rare books that attempt to reframe how we think about a whole …

Why the West Rules—For Now by Ian Morris Please consult the graph above, it should be clear now from Moriss own Composite Social Development Index . …

I don’t have much to say about April, except that the biggest flop was Death’s End (the final book in the trilogy starting with The Three-Body …

The book presents a story that is more than obvious in hindsight: that President Biden’s cognitive and physical decline was both visible and …

Orlando Figes’s Natasha’s Dance is an ambitious, sweeping exploration of Russian cultural identity from the 18th century to the late Soviet period. …

Chokepoints by Edward Fishman delivers a sharp and sober analysis of economic coercion as a strategic tool of U.S. foreign policy. Drawing on a …

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams Facebook isn’t always doing great. Its digital currency failed, its virtual worlds aren’t working, it’s a tool …

Spent most of the February on Taiwan teaching, so did not manage to read as much as I would like. Book of the Month: Here All Along Disappointment of …

Certainly one of the months with no specific highlights. Book of the month: Careless People; Flop of the month: Slavic Mythology Collection, the sheer …

January was mostly spent on pedagogy, a bit of everyday history / science and sneaking in a novel or two. Why Don’t Students Like School?: A …

December was the first month of settling down into a new way of life. And also a month, that feels, thanks to our nearly week long New Years Eve …

In November, I found new jobs, proposed to Kamila (she said yes at the Main Train Station with no witnesses), and, as usual, read some books. The Tech …

Three Journeys into Sites of Racial and Imperial Conflict Dakar, American Schools, and Israel/Palestine Ta-Nehisi Coates and Czechia Ta-Nehisi Coates …

The Tech Coup Marietje Schaake Technology companies are out of control, have started to write their own rules, and are disrupting both the rule of …

Spent most of my August feverishly writing 97 Poets of Revachol, cramming in books between 12h writing shifts. Looking back, it was super tiring: but …

In one month, I managed to recover from Revachol, take a week-long trip to Albania, definitively part ways with the Pirate Party, and — yes, read some …

Ran 97 Poets of Revachol in September 2024, so all the reading happened on a bus or while setting up the location. The Complete Beginner’s Guide To …

Šikmý kostel 2: románová kronika ztraceného města Karin Lednická It was stronger, I think, in describing the “ordinary misery of the miners” than it …

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber, David Wengrow Half a year after reading this, I have mostly processed the thing. And …

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Tim Alberta A glimpse into what’s happened to American …

In September I managed some reading about writing, horror classics, and some very popular non-fiction. I hope something catches your eye and at …

And here’s the August summary. Piko: Junkies’ Lives Matter Apolena Rychlíková, Pavel Šplíchal Piko is definitely a project worth …

July was fairly diverse. Indiánské léto / El Gaucho Hugo Pratt (Writer), Milo Manara (Illustrator) Milo Manara is of course a well-established erotic …

Another month, more books. A large part was taken up by recovering from Battle Under the Mountain (there really were a lot of people!) and intensive …

May 2023 was mainly about work and preparing Battle Under the Mountain, so the reading wasn’t all that glorious. But I managed a few things. …

I had holidays and a life, so the book summary arrives unexpectedly late. April 2023, let’s go. Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to …

Another month, more books. Again I’ve summarised what I read over the past month and what I think about it. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume …

Hey, A month has passed and I’ve read some books again, with a few words on each. The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade …