9 min read ⌚ Yesterday was Rupi Kaur’s 26th birthday. (Happy birthday, Rupi!) To honor her – as well as show our appreciation for her work – we decided to make her two books (milk and honey and the sun and her flowers) the first two collections of poetry summarized on our site. Consider that our […]
10 min read ⌚ Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Your doctor made a mistake? And you have something angry to say to him? What about him saying an angry thing to you? Trust us: “This Is Going to Hurt.” Twice. Because it’s both painful and painfully funny. Who Should Read “This Is Going to Hurt”? […]
7 min read ⌚ The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping This is not just another book about stress. In fact, it’s probably the only one you should read. Since it’s written by a renowned scientist and a brilliant science writer and since it will not only expose many of the other stress-related books […]
7 min read ⌚ Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century What if someone told you that there are serious indicators attesting that we are experiencing the beginning of the end of American capitalism? And what if that same guy added that, in fact, American capitalism wasn’t that great to begin with – but just […]
5 min read ⌚ What is the best of you? Do you dare to take the road of uncertainty and put doubt on your methods for achieving happiness? We were thrilled by every aspect of this fantastic novel, and we hope you’ll be too. Without further ado, let’s cut to the chase: Who Should Read “The […]
5 min read ⌚ Let us tell you three things about “Tell Me Three Things”: #1. The debut YA novel by Julie Buxbaum, the book was a critically acclaimed “New York Times” bestseller; #2. The novel is a “perfect mix of comedy and tragedy, love and loss, and pain and elation”; #3. It has one of […]
7 min read ⌚ Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely considered to have been one of the greatest – if not the greatest –philosopher of the 20th century. At about 80 pages, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” is the only book he published during his lifetime. And for some time – if you had asked Wittgenstein and his followers – it was […]
7 min read ⌚ A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years You’ve read that right: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” tells everything about everybody. In 500 pages. Here summarized in about 1,500 words! Who Should Read “Guns, Germs, and Steel”? And Why? The main reason why Jared Diamond wrote “Guns, Germs, and Steel” was a […]
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