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...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 31, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels can be read as seven adventures, but their larger design becomes clearer when they are treated as one continuous story. What begins with an eleven-year-old boy discovering that he is a wizard gradually reveals itself as the...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 29, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
A Series of Unfortunate Events begins with a catastrophe so abrupt that it seems to establish the rules of the entire story. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire go to Briny Beach, learn that their parents have died in a fire that destroyed their home, and are placed...
