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...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 6, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is short enough to read in a few sittings, yet its compactness can make the novel deceptively easy to simplify. It is often described as a doomed romance between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan or as a parable about the failure of...
