Category: Book Club

Book Club gathering - Sun 26 July 2009

We had a book club session, there were 8 of us and we shared the following books:

Business Cycles: History, Theory and Investment Reality - Lars Tvede
The four-hour workweek - Timothy Ferriss
A pale view of Hill - Kazuo Ishiguro
中國大歷史 - 黃仁宇
Screen play - Syd Field
0-1 - 澤田尚美
香港社會企業妙點子 - 謝家駒
關於跑步,我說的其實是? - 村上春樹

Wonderful event, always fun to hear about what other people are reading and why they like the book.

Book Club 15 March 2008


9 people turned up (7 in the photos) at our book club gathering and we talked about many things and we talked about 6 books

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La sagesse des contes (buy from Amazon)
by Alexandro Jodorowsky

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The God Delusion (buy from Amazon)
by Richard Dawkins

"I think therefore I am" - A collection of short article by a Hong Kong writer - Chan Wan

"Il Decamerone", written by the Italian humanist writer Giovanni Boccaccio almost 650 years ago, Il Decamerone contains a hundred tales supposedly told in ten days. Image from Amazon
Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) (buy from Amazon)
by Jill M. Ricketts

"All kind of gods in ancient China"

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Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor (buy from Amazon)
by Seth A. Klarman