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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Some war novels focus on battles; others focus on the people caught in between. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr does both while weavin...
Book Reviews
The Books & Ideas territory. Books that earned a proper write-up: not summaries, not star ratings, but an honest account of what changed when I finished the last page, what the author was actually doing beneath the surface argument, and what it might mean for someone building things in the real world.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
This was such a precious audiobook and so well made. I can still hear the readers voice in my head and listened to this book on a recent flight and...
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Gertrude Stein’s Essay on Writing Masterpieces: A Revolutionary Perspective
Introduction: The Art of Breaking Literary Conventions
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The controversy about this book and Mineko Iwasaki the geisha whom the author had interviewed intrigued me to want to read her autobiography Geisha...
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Peace in Every Breath by Thich Nhat Hanh
I recently reread this book on a flight during a family trip. It allowed me to see things from a different perspective and was just the wisdom I wa...
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On Writing by Stephen King
Some books about writing are technical manuals, others are deeply personal. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is a rare fusion of b...
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The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden isn’t just another book on human intelligence, it’s an interdisciplinary fusion of science, philosophy, and speculative inquiry.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
Albert Camus’ The Stranger (L’Étranger, 1942) is one of the most iconic works of existentialism and absurdist literature. This novel, which follows...