by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham is most closely associated with courtroom thrillers, legal conspiracies, and protagonists trapped inside institutions powerful enough to ruin them. Ford County: Stories uses many of the same materials—lawyers, lawsuits, prisoners, insurance companies,...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 23, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller is one of the strangest books in his bibliography. It contains no courtroom intrigue, criminal conspiracy, or conventional villain. Instead, Grisham uses the fictional death of a young father to argue for the potential of...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 16, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life begins with an attractive question: why do some people continue to live with energy, usefulness, curiosity, and enjoyment well into old age? Héctor García and Francesc Miralles pursue that question through Japanese...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 9, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Steve Turley’s Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture begins from a problem that sounds narrow but quickly becomes a theory of education. Classical Christian schools routinely describe their educational ideal as the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 2, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s Warming the Stone Child: Myths and Stories about Abandonment and the Unmothered Child is an unusual work to call a “book.” First released by Sounds True in 1990, it is fundamentally an author-narrated audio program in which Estés moves between...
