Heath W. Black Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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📚34, 2022📚 “The Passenger” by Cormac McCarthy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ People who discovered McCarthy via The Road won’t like this book, but I thought it was stunning. In the vein of Blood Meridian– Long, introspective dialogue. Depravity. A conflict we can’t grasp. Excited for Part 2.

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📚#30, 2022📚 “The Molecule of More” by Daniel Z. Lieberman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Didn’t know a deep dive on Dopamine could be as riveting as this was. Explains so many phenomena on earth, including many of the reasons why I think & feel the way I do. H/T @Joshmedia for the recommendation.

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📚2023.25📚 “The Orchard Keeper” by Cormac McCarthy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not McCarthy’s strongest work, but as his first novel you can really get a foreshadowing of the future of his style and ethos. With this, I complete the full McCarthy canon. Next up: “Beloved” by Toni Morrison https://t.co/iDygCxzzpJ

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#3, 2022 “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Re-read for the first time since 7th grade. Holds up great!

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📚2023.7📚 “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ St. John Mandel writes such readable books– fast paced w/ concepts that aren’t played out or contrived. This, like “Station Eleven,” was another page-turner. Next up: “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka https://t.co/faJHvC0cd3

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📚2023.14📚 “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The chapters vacillated b/w the most beautiful fiction I’ve ever read & droning rambles I couldn’t wait to finish. Truly unique in that regard. A Pulitzer? How? Next Up: “Golf Is A Game of Confidence” by Dr. Bob Rotella https://t.co/Lji7Aqp9T9

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📚2023.11📚 “Boom Town” by Sam Anderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A really well done melange of my favorite things– history, Thunder hoops, and regional culture. Pretty on the nose in my experience as an Okie. Painful regarding Harden, though. Next up: “Circe” by Madeline Miller

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📚2023.9📚 "Outer Dark" by Cormac McCarthy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of McCarthy’s earliest works & it didn’t disappoint. His typical blend of nihilistic, poetic text & depraved characters wandering life aimlessly. A classic. Next up: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” Gabrielle Zevin https://t.co/1Xamt4CTKH

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📚#16, 2022📚 “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A bit cheesy and predictable at times, but all-in-all another entertaining Sci-Fi from Weir.

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📚41, 2022📚 “Stella Maris” by Cormac McCarthy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A beautiful novel written entirely in dialogue b/w a therapist and his patient. The perfect companion to “The Passenger.” Given McCarthy is 90, sad to imagine these might be his final books but what a swing for the fence.