by Aseem Gupta | Jul 3, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins with a problem that seems almost trivial compared with the danger Harry faced during his first year at Hogwarts: nobody has written to him. After finally discovering friendship, belonging, and a world in which he matters...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 30, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Gary John Bishop’s Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life belongs to a crowded category of books promising to help readers escape procrastination, self-doubt, frustration, and the feeling of being trapped in their own lives. Its title suggests...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 28, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Sam Cawthorn’s Storyshowing: How to Stand Out from the Storytellers begins with a deceptively simple distinction. Many speakers tell audiences what happened, what they learned, or what they want people to do. Far fewer make an audience experience the significance of...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 24, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few opening novels have had to perform as many jobs as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It must introduce an eleven-year-old protagonist, reveal an entire hidden society, establish a school with its own customs and rivalries, build a friendship group,...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 19, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
First published in 1997, don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements has become one of those self-help books whose central ideas are more famous than the book that contains them. “Be impeccable with your word,” “Don’t take anything personally,” “Don’t make assumptions,” and...
