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The very first post I made on this site talked about how, minus school assignments, I never read leisurely until I came across David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon in 2019. With the recent hype around the movie adaptation, I searched Grann’s name online to find out he published... [Read More]

Last August (I know, it’s almost time for this August), I was catching up with a friend, Peter, over drinks. It had been a few months since we’d met while traveling through Europe, so there was plenty to catch up on.  [Read More]

I recently finished reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation which was certainly one of the darker books I’ve stumbled upon. After reading the last page, I immediately started hunting online for books to wash the sour taste out of my reading mouth. I failed on my goal because, that... [Read More]

Almost a month has elapsed since I finished this book, and I’m still not quite sure how I feel about it. To enumerate all of my thoughts in a single review sounds difficult, but assigning a number at the end seems even harder. Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and... [Read More]

When I opened YouTube a few weeks ago, the first video in the recommendation list was a TED talk from Scott Galloway. Given that my normal list is mostly random engineering videos, I was surprised to see the recommendation system show me a talk from one of my favorite authors.... [Read More]