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Category Archives: Books
The Signal and the Noise
I recently read Nate Silver’s popular book, The Signal and the Noise. He’s the guy who correctly predicted the winner of the election in all fifty states. The book is about how people have attempted to predict various things – … Continue reading
A Visit from the Goon Squad
During a couple of international flights last month, I read Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Good Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. It’s one of those books that has an ensemble cast of characters. There’s … Continue reading
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer over a month ago, but I’ve been having trouble talking about it. Not because it was traumatizing or anything, but it affected me in this weird way that … Continue reading
Norwegian Wood
In my journey to become more literate, I just finished reading my fourth book since college, Norwegian Wood. Shamefully, this was the first Murakami novel I read. What kind of Japanese person am I? A terrible one, apparently. Having never … Continue reading
The Road
I’ve somehow managed to finish reading my third book out of college, The Road. And it didn’t take me months to finish, unlike with Underworld. I knew going in that this was a book about a man and his son … Continue reading
Vocabulary in Literature
As I was reading Underworld, I was struck by how many times I had to reach for the dictionary. Sure, not being well-read, my vocabulary isn’t nearly as large as other people’s. I memorized a lot of vocabulary for the … Continue reading
Underworld
If you know me in real life, you would know that I’m not a big reader at all. Up until August 2011, in the eight years or so since my last English class, I read exactly one novel (Thirteen Reasons … Continue reading