A great collection of Cosmere “short” stories about very different but uniquely memorable characters in a wide variety of fantastical …
A fascinating and very approachable treasure trove introduction to the evolution of the brain as a recursive prediction machine via a framework of …
Epic ending for a masterfully crafted trilogy! Sanderson strikes the perfect balance of promise, payoff and mystery for a satisfying ending of an epic …
For some reason the name “The Well of Ascension” had been distantly familiar to me long before ever even hearing about Brandon Sanderson. …
Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn is a great piece of Dune-esque fiction with fantastic world building, a very original and interesting hard magic …
I and my copy of this book have been through a lot together. I carried it in my backpack for a couple of months, accidentally causing it water damage, …
Tress of the Emerald Sea is a fun, quotable and theoretically very surprising fantasy adventure with various twists and trope inversions, which does, …
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a great Cosmere story full of mystery, mundane magic and occasionally somewhat awkward teenage romance. The …
I picked up The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey to read on the plane on our trip to Italy mostly due to its physically robust …
Victor E. Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” is an important and ever-so-timely exploration about the most central of …
I bought this as a separate book as I only realized afterwards that it would have been a part of Arcanum Unbounded. My expectations might have been …
What a book! After the first couple of the Stormlight Archive books I had high expectations which were still vastly exceeded. I don’t want to tell too …
This was pretty much what I expected it to be, if not a little less still. Mark H. McCormack’s What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School is …
Reviewing books deeper into a series in a meaningful way, particularly when they are split into two parts, becomes in a way quite difficult and hence, …
Everything I said in the review of the first part still stands but now raised to the second power! The world feels very real, and it feels like the …
As claimed on the cover of my edition by The Guardian: ‘The Stormlight Archive is epic in every sense’. While I cannot vouch for the entire series …
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is perhaps the most relevant and important classic for the modern day – only it failed to predict smartphones. This …
Animal Farm is perhaps one of the most famous allegories and in that it is anything but subtle, just like the pigs in the story. Any elementary …
The secondary title “A Way of Being” of Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act is a bit of a misleading title as this book is only a very loose, non-continuous …
What a great coincidence getting to read this book for two courses simultaneously. We used this as our coursebook for both Human-Computer Interaction …
I can tell that The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fritzgerald may contain quite a bit of depth buried somewhere among its dense paragraphs but I may have …
I am not quite sure why I had to read this book or what I expected of it but perhaps due to repeated subconscious exposure, somehow familiar cover art …
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great book reminding you mostly about what you already know with some cool stories and quotes sprinkled in between. …
This has really been a long time coming. The Lightning Thief has been at the back of my reading list pretty much ever since I learned to read. I have …
“Spark Joy” is a great book for a very specific audience. As Kondo herself says in the book, one should not read this book if they are not …
I found out about this book through the 2021 audiovisual masterpiece, Dune, which works as a fantastic trailer for this book. Frank Herbert’s …
Double triple quadruple check everything you read and see. The book is filled with mistakes and inaccuracies and is often written very …
This is what I eventually ended up doing my individual oral presentation on as it explores a wide variety of rather universal themes such as freedom …
Existential dread, here we come! This is a dangerous book for those who just want to get by in everyday life without delving too deep into the …
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is a difficult and laborious read that has a lot to offer to the patient reader. We had an entire …
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is by far the best play I have read for school. It is also among the best literary classics we have read …
This has really been a long time coming. The Lightning Thief has been at the back of my reading list pretty much ever since I learned to read. I have …
John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is an American classic, one that I have now read twice for both middle and high school, in …
I had high expectations for this one as Mark Twain has been described as one of the greats and I have heard the name Huckleberry Finn so many times …
Everything you ever need to know about economics! It sure is “the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the …
Moonwalking with Einstein is an extremely entertaining and well-written story about the author’s journey from an ordinary journalist with …
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is the perfect introduction to philosophy. It’s educational, funny, inspiring and and despite the names of …
An interesting account on the 1980’s Wall Street and Michael Lewis’ own journey in Salomon Brothers with a pretty predictable teaching. …
A great book that brings the Ellingham case to a conclusion. It’s a gripping and well written, light mystery-drama which I can honestly …
A good sequel to a great book with some very interesting plot twists that answer some of the questions from the first book while setting up a lot more …
A great book with a truly interesting catch! There are two factors that make it so unique: first, it is only written in letters and secondly but more …
Read this one for school. It’s an adequately interesting account of the evolution of the news industry with a lot of “behind-the-scenes …
Straight to the point. It delivers what it promises: a kick in the ass. There’s no shortcuts to realizing ones potential but the work has to be …
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman discusses the two “systems” involved in thinking: the fast and automatic and the slow and …