books Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/books Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:51:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 182200397 The Didact’s Best Books of 2024 https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:03:32 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21461 It took me quite a while to get around to writing this best-of poast, mostly because I was lazy about it, but I think there are several books I came across last year which are well worth mentioning. If you click on either the subheading or the title image for each book, you will go […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/02/the-didacts-best-books-of-2024.html/feed 2 21461 When the SDL commands it… https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:09:25 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20893 About a month ago, Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, linked to an old poast of mine, in which I reviewed the original, initial release of A Sea of Skulls. As OBADSDL(PBUH) noted, I had a lot of very good things to say about that original release: […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/when-the-sdl-commands-it.html/feed 0 20893 ALMOST worth the wait https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/almost-worth-the-wait.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/almost-worth-the-wait.html#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:37:21 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20660 Most of you probably have no idea what Midnight’s War is, unless you have been following the efforts of Our Beloved And Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible to upend the apple-cart of the comic books industry. The first major foray into this field was “Project Asteroid”, which, if I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/almost-worth-the-wait.html/feed 2 20660 The Didact’s Best Books of 2023 https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2023.html https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2023.html#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19539 This year was another quite slow one for me in terms of reading. I think I managed to finish off 11 books in all – which is not a particularly impressive achievement, given what I used to manage. It is clear to me that my ability to concentrate for long periods of time on one […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2023/01/didacts-book-list-2022.html/feed 0 17219 The Didact’s Best Books of 2022 https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2022.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2022.html#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17159 My reading definitely collapsed quite badly in the past year as well – I actually spend much more of my time these days reading blog posts, articles, and various alternative news aggregator sites, rather than actual books. I also spent an inordinate amount of time on one non-fiction book, which I list below in the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2022.html/feed 2 17159 On behalf of our resident Badger https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/on-behalf-of-our-resident-badger.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/on-behalf-of-our-resident-badger.html#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:49:09 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17004 LRFotS Dire Badger is a chap with whom many of us are familiar. He’s been a regular at both this site and its predecessor, the old Didact’s Reach blog, for many years. Though he rarely comments nowadays, he always has something interesting to say. He wrote to me recently about his own side projects as […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/on-behalf-of-our-resident-badger.html/feed 6 17004 Didact’s Book List 2021 https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/didacts-book-list-2021.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/didacts-book-list-2021.html#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=14167 Convergence (Galaxy’s Edge Book 13) by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole (3.8/5) How to Deal With Narcissists: Why they Became Evil, How They Think, And Strategies and Techniques to Take Control by Michael Trust (3.5/5) The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard by James G. Burton (4.2/5) Angles of Attack (Dark Operator Book 4) by Doc Spears with […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/didacts-book-list-2021.html/feed 3 14167 The Didact’s Best Books of 2021 https://didacticmind.com/2021/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2021.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2021.html#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=14138 My usual breakneck reading pace actually fell off a cliff this year, for a number of reasons. I was extremely busy with courses and work all the way from January through to October, and that really dented my ability to read and process information through books, much to my regret. I also spent a lot […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/12/the-didacts-best-books-of-2021.html/feed 0 14138 Guest Post: Lessons Learned from Erich Fromm by The Male Brain https://didacticmind.com/2021/05/guest-post-lessons-learned-from-erich-fromm-by-the-male-brain.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/05/guest-post-lessons-learned-from-erich-fromm-by-the-male-brain.html#comments Sat, 29 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=11822 I am very pleased to present another guest post from our good friend, Dawn Pine, aka The Male Brain, over in Israel. This week’s post is a longer, thoughtful piece on The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm, and the lessons that our esteemed guest took from it. I am unfamiliar with Fromm’s work, so […]

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