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Details: 15 December 2023

Here are my suggestions for your Summer (Winter) reading from the books I've read over the past few months, as pictured here: "The House That Joy Built: The Pleasure & Power of Giving Ourselves Permission to Create" by Australian author Holly ...

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Details: 27 December 2020

On Boxing Day, I finally read the new All Our Shimmering Skies by Brisbane journalist Trent Dalton (who writes for The Australian). BUY the book

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Details: 27 December 2020

Christmas afternoon I finished reading Cheat: the Not-So-Subtle Art of Conning Your Way to Sporting Glory by Titus O'Reily, AFL satirist and sports historian. BUY the Book.

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Details: 04 June 2020

My favourite book of the year so far: Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, BREXIT, and Facebook Broke Democracy by Brittany Kaiser (who you may recognise from the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack) and who runs DATA (Digi...

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Details: 03 January 2020

One of the newer books I read from the cyberpsychology field I'm getting into is The Psychology of Social Media by Ciaran Mc Mahon, a historian, and philosopher of psychology, whose research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and technol...

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Details: 20 December 2019

Finished the new Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Sports Gambling in Australia by Titus O'Reily, AFL satirist and sports historian recently. Here's a photo from one of my favourite watering holes, Palm Beach in Queensland, A...

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Details: 02 July 2019

On Saturday, I devoted the day to reading the extraordinary beautiful and captivating, Boy Swallows Universe, by Brisbane journalist Trent Dalton. I love when my favourite journalists write books. As this is a novel and I prefer non-fiction, it ...

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Details: 11 June 2019

A great read I finally finished a couple of days ago after completing uni for the trimester: Carl Miller's The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize. This book is a thorough justification for the concer...

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Details: 16 July 2018

Just finished reading Russell Brand’s latest book: Recover: Freedom from our Addictions, which is an honest account of how the 12-step programme helped Russell from a collection of addictions. If the 12-step programme has seemed arcane, religio...

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Details: 27 June 2018

The People vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and how we save it), is a great book I recently finished reading from one of my fave tech authors, Jamie Bartlett, who is also the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at U...