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user-inactivated  ·  998 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what are you reading this summer?

J.L. Collin's "The Simple Path to Wealth". It's meant as an introduction to stocks and investing. At heart, it's a love letter to Vanguard.

Facts-in-brief:

- More-or-less walks through r/personalfinance's 'prime directive' with a couple modifications for Step 4 and onward.

    Save/invest 50% of your income

Invest solely in index funds (preferably VTSAX)

- Outlines difference among stocks, bonds, and their derivatives in a simplistic manner. (and when to leverage them - if ever)

- Overall, easy to consume financial literature

Likely skimming through the last 40 pages and get onto James Clavell's "Shogun". The later chapters are more personal opinions on Collin's preferences which track with his anecdotals.

Went through Gaiman's run of "Eternals" in anticipation of the movie release. Not my favorite of Neil's, but enjoyable nonetheless.

I tried getting into Elmore Leonard after finishing Justified on Hulu (highly recommend if you like dramas). Man... the literary style of Leonard is a feat to be more grueling than regular financial lit. Not recommended.... TV show was great, though!

And on that note, I'm running into more folx that found Obama's "A Promised Land" much slower than anticipated.

J. M. DeMatteis's "Moonshadow" is still on the list... along with half my recent amazon orders.