In-person 9others & Weekend Reading

Jul 16, 2021

A good meal with 9others — July

Getting the Goalpost to Stop Moving by Morgan Housel
- “There aren’t many iron laws of money. But here’s one, and perhaps the most important: If expectations grow faster than income you’ll never be happy with your money”.
The Secret Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Claudia Roth Pierpont
- “His biographers have a hard time, at once starved and overwhelmed, tasked with constructing a man around the spectacular evidence of this disembodied mind. The paintings offer little more in the way of knowledge. Arguments persist even about the identity of the woman known as Mona Lisa, or why Leonardo never delivered the portrait to the husband who commissioned it, if indeed it was her husband who commissioned it”.

The Minister of Chaos by Tom McTague
- “For three decades, we’ve followed his writing, his ambition, his outrages, his scandals. Yet the truth, for a professional Boris-watcher such as myself, is maddeningly elusive”.
Unusual Inspiration: How 9 Creative Minds Got Their Ideas by Michael Michalko
- “The 19th century French novelist and playwright was one of the pillars of French romantic literature, thanks in part to insane volumes of caffeine. It’s rumored that he drank 50 cups of coffee a day to stimulate his writing – sometimes more than one at a time”.
One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps by Tahir Hamut Izgil
- “Nearly everyone I knew from the labor camp where I’d been imprisoned two decades earlier had already been rearrested. My turn would clearly come soon”.