by Aseem Gupta | Jan 22, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Great creative work tends to acquire an aura once it is finished. Novels, symphonies, paintings, scientific theories, films, and buildings arrive before the public as completed achievements, making it easy to imagine that their creators operated in an equally elevated...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 17, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Cal Newport’s How to Become a Straight-A Student begins from an observation that many college students eventually discover for themselves: the number of hours spent studying is a poor measure of how much useful academic work actually gets done. A student can remain in...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 14, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Theodore Boone: The Accomplice is the seventh Theodore Boone novel, but its central problem is unusually serious even by the standards of a series built around crime and courtrooms. Theo’s friend Woody Lambert is arrested after being present...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 12, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Theodore Boone: The Scandal takes a problem that sounds modest by legal-thriller standards—teachers tampering with standardized-test answers—and turns it into a surprisingly difficult question about justice. The sixth Theodore Boone novel, published in...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 10, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Theodore Boone: The Fugitive begins with the kind of discovery its thirteen-year-old hero dreams about: Theo spots a wanted murder suspect hiding in plain sight and realizes that he may be the only person who recognizes him. Yet catching Pete Duffy...
