Appointment with Death

25.1.2019

This is a classic style Hercule Poirot novel and quite good one.

Fiction

The Templars

31.12.2018

This is an objective and fact based history of Templars without pop-culture additions or any romanticising. It also gives some insights of medieval political life in general.

Non-Fiction

Life 3.0

10.11.2018

This is the most well informed and neutral book about future of AI I have read, by an author who’s has great authority in this field.

How to remove certain property from all objects inside a object

10.10.2018

Sometimes you have a data object, with a set of objects inside it and maybe even object inside each child object and you want to get certain property removed from all these child objects. Here’s one way to do it.

Advanced

The Lean Startup

10.10.2018

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable.  The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. 

Business

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

17.9.2018

Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now

Non-Fiction

Platform Revolution

30.8.2018

This books is a good business book introducing reader to Platform based business model and how it works.

Business

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

16.8.2018

This was a good basic view of Romanov family and their 300 year reign of Russia. It really focuses on Romanov family and reader doesn’t get really good sense of historical context where events takes place.

Non-Fiction

The Theory of Everything

9.8.2018

Seven lectures by the brilliant theoretical physicist have been compiled into this book to try to explain to the common man, the complex problems of mathematics and the question that has been gripped everyone all for centuries, the theory of existence.

Non-Fiction

Origin Story: A Big History of everything

29.6.2018

In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we’ve come to know as “history.” By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together.

Non-Fiction

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

28.6.2018

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.

Fiction

Murder on the Orient Express

20.6.2018

Since there is a new movie made from this book, I decided to read it again. This classic still works. This is one of the best detective novels ever.

Fiction