{"id":8307,"date":"2017-01-02T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2016-12-28T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:31:08","slug":"five-star-rated-books-read-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/01\/02\/five-star-rated-books-read-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"My Five Star-Rated Books Read in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, out of the many\u00c2\u00a0books I read this prior year, here are\u00c2\u00a0the ones I gave five stars.<\/p>\n

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  1. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Weinberg, Steven<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Brockman, John<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Isaacson, Walter<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Ridley, Matt<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Wise, Tim<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Roots: The Saga of an American Family<\/a><\/em> by\u00c2\u00a0Haley, Alex<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World<\/a><\/em> by\u00c2\u00a0Grant, Adam M.<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Eaters of the Dead<\/a><\/em> by\u00c2\u00a0Crichton, Michael<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope to make this a regular feature of the blog.<\/p>\n

    Last year was a banner year with 14. It looks like 2013 was about equal with 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, out of the many\u00c2\u00a0books I read this prior year, here are\u00c2\u00a0the ones I gave five stars. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Weinberg, Steven Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Brockman, John The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Isaacson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[94,2167,3228,3227,688,892,3033],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-books","tag-computer-geeks","tag-genome","tag-hackers","tag-originality","tag-racism","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-29Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}