by Aseem Gupta | Jul 26, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series, but it is also the point at which the series changes its scale, emotional register, and understanding of danger. The first three novels repeatedly bring Harry...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 18, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Mindfulness looks, at first, like a very small book about a very familiar idea: pay attention to the present moment. Yet the work becomes much more demanding than that description suggests. What begins with tea, walking, breathing, opening...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 16, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The third novel in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series marks an important change in what a Harry Potter story can be. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban still contains the familiar rhythms of the first two books—summer misery with the Dursleys, a return to...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 14, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Bill Bryson begins A Short History of Nearly Everything with a fact so familiar that its strangeness is easy to miss: you exist. The atoms making up your body are unimaginably old, most of them were forged long before Earth existed, and none of them is alive by...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 13, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Gary Vaynerchuk’s The Thank You Economy arrived in 2011 at a moment when businesses were still trying to decide whether Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, and other social platforms were passing novelties or a permanent change in how companies would communicate...
