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With one hour before my local bookstore closed, I didn’t have a lot of time to comb through the list of books I’d saved in the past months. As I walked into the store, all I wanted was to buy a light-hearted fiction book. Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library caught... [Read More]

The Alchemist: one of those ubiquitous books that I constantly see online, in bookstores, or on friends’ bookshelves. I figured that, at some point, it would be my calling to read it, so I wasn’t surprised when my friend Cole recommended the book a few months ago. [Read More]

With a poignant title and impressive PR rollout plan, Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died surfaced on my radar more than a few times. But with a reading list that is constantly growing and a schedule allowing less and less time for reading, this book never ended up on... [Read More]

A newly founded effort to say ‘yes’ more often recently ended up with me joining a casual soccer league with some of my work friends and friends-of-friends. After a blowout loss on a rainy Sunday morning, our team ended up at a nearby apartment cooking pancakes. A conversation that ranged... [Read More]

On an otherwise uninteresting Sunday in New York, I met up with my friend Rob. The plan: buy and drink smoothies while reading in the nearby park. The first half of the plan went well, but when we got to the park, I was confused when Rob pulled two books... [Read More]