Author Archives: Booker
Build the Life You Want Review: Happiness as a Practice
A warm, research-informed guide to getting happier through emotional self-management and four core pillars, solid [...]
Grit Review: Passion and Perseverance, Overstated
Duckworth's case for sustained effort is warm, readable and sensible, but grit turns out to [...]
Deep Work Review: Focus as a Career Advantage
Newport makes a persuasive, practical case that undistracted concentration is rare and valuable; it's essential [...]
Freakonomics Review: Clever Questions, Shakier Answers
A fun, fast tour of economics applied to cheating, crime and baby names that teaches [...]
Early Retirement Extreme Review: Frugality as a Philosophy
The most radical and intellectually serious book in the financial independence movement: dense, demanding and [...]
The Little Prince Review: A Children’s Book Written for Adults
Saint-Exupéry's short fable about a stranded pilot and a boy from a tiny asteroid is [...]
The Decagon House Murders Review: Christie’s Island, Rebuilt
A cheeky Japanese riff on And Then There Were None with one of the genre's [...]
The Myth of Normal Review: Big Compassion, Shaky Causation
Gabor Maté's humane case that our culture makes us sick is moving and often insightful, [...]
The Big Sleep Review: Chandler’s Marlowe Debut Is All Voice
The first Philip Marlowe novel has a famously tangled plot and ugly period attitudes, but [...]
The Dhandho Investor Review: Heads I Win, Tails I Don’t Lose Much
A short, lively introduction to the value mindset built on memorable business stories, though its [...]
The Dawn of Everything Review: Bold History, Contested Evidence
A dazzling, combative rethink of early human societies that will widen your sense of what [...]
The Coddling of the American Mind Review: Sharp Ideas, Thin Proof
A clear, useful diagnosis of campus fragility built on cognitive behavioral therapy; strong on ideas, [...]