by Aseem Gupta | May 23, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson’s The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden begins with one of the least powerful people imaginable and eventually places her in the middle of a crisis involving an atomic bomb, the Swedish king, the Swedish prime minister, Mossad and the Chinese...
by Aseem Gupta | May 23, 2022 | Business, Innovation & Industry
Streaming was supposed to save us from cable. No long contracts. No bloated channel bundles. No waiting for shows to air at a fixed time. No paying for dozens of channels you never watched. Just open an app, choose what you want, and watch it instantly. For a while,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 10, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson did not originally intend to send Allan Karlsson on another adventure. His first Hundred-Year-Old Man novel had used Allan’s improbable life to wander through twentieth-century history, placing an apolitical Swedish explosives expert beside dictators,...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson begins The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared with what should be an ending. Allan Karlsson is one hundred years old, living in an old people’s home, and expected to spend his birthday being ceremonially celebrated by...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 14, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
History usually reaches us after uncertainty has disappeared. D-Day succeeded, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Apollo 11 returned safely from the Moon, Britain never fought the Soviet Union in a nuclear war, and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was killed moments after...
