by Aseem Gupta | Mar 9, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer, published in 2015, begins with a familiar legal-thriller proposition and then steadily complicates it. Sebastian Rudd is a criminal-defense lawyer who represents people other attorneys do not want: defendants already condemned by public...
by Aseem Gupta | May 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is the fifth novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, but it is not simply the story that begins where A Feast for Crows ends. Its opening sections return to characters who disappeared after A Storm of Swords—Jon Snow, Daenerys...
by Aseem Gupta | May 13, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
A Feast for Crows, the fourth novel in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, begins after the spectacular political and military shocks that transformed Westeros in A Storm of Swords. Robb Stark is dead, Joffrey Baratheon has been murdered at his wedding,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 6, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords, the third novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, is the volume in which the political and emotional arrangements established across the first two books begin collapsing all at once. Armies still matter, kings still issue...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 24, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog is usually shelved with business books, but it does not read like a conventional guide to entrepreneurship. There is no orderly founder’s framework, no sequence of principles that supposedly guarantees success, and very little attempt to make...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 22, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom has acquired the aura of an inspirational classic, but the book itself is considerably more complicated than the public image surrounding it. It is not simply the story of a heroic prisoner who forgave his enemies, nor is it...
