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Good Energy by Dr Casey Means and Calley Means

Refined added sugar causes astronomically more deaths and disability per year than COVID-19 and fentanyl overdoses combined. On my recent journey towards good health, better wellbeing, and not being quite so reactive, defensive, and sensitive to implied criticism, real or otherwise, I have been inspired to read some great books – Ultra-Processed People , In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts , and Breath among the best of them – and others have been suggested to me by some very lovely and well-meaning people. I’ve almost got round to nearly reading many of them. This is one I couldn’t add to my tsundoku by virtue of the proximity of the lovely and well-meaning person, who was keen to discuss what was learned. So read it I have. It has taken me quite a while to get through by my standards despite the New York Times Bestseller-sized font and many, many paragraph breaks, lists, bullet-points and, surprising to me at least, recipes towards the end. This was not really to do with the content, but ...

Taipei by Tao Lin

Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

Ultra-Processed People by Chris Van Tullleken

Leviathan Wakes by James A Corey

Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain

Popular Hits Of The Showa Era by Ryu Murakami

In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction by Gabor Maté

Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism by Herman Pontzer

The Day Of Creation by J.G. Ballard

And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J Shields

Conversations On Kindness by Bernadette Russell

Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley