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The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
My wife and I typically read very different types of books. She enjoys romance and contemporary novels, while I gravitate toward non-fiction and historical…
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son by J D Rockefeller
My parents often share informative videos with my brother and me. Truth be told, I tend to ignore most of them, not wanting to spend the time it takes to absorb…
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Genius Makers by Cade Metz
With the popularity of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) is getting more attention than ever. Even though I'm working as a data engineer, besides a…
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Dick is the only book we have at our place with both an English and Chinese edition. My wife is starting to have her own book collection and she loves…
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
The Pursuit of Power by Richard J. Evans is part of the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the time between the fall of Napoleon and the…
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day is a novel that tells the first-person account of Stevens, a head butler at Darlington Hall. My wife recommended this book to me since…
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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
With the new year I've been thinking about how to better document my learnings from the books I've read. Writing doesn't come easy to me, so each book review I…
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When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowestein details how a firm so widely regarded in the financial industry can…
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The president of the United States is one of the most powerful positions held in the world. With so much power to influence both domestic and global policies…
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1984 by George Orwell
Whenever a conversation at work mentioned 1984, it seemed like a novel was always brought up and an understanding was shared among the people who got the…