Read Hardcore Zen, it’s his first and most famous
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I stopped reading this book a few months back then picked it up again earlier last week. I just finished it and it was truly an experience. Almost every single character is a complete asshole but I feel sorry for all of them. It’s just incredibly and impeccably-written.
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Snow Falling On Cedars
(Second time reading it)
You only got a book. I heard other interns got a bit more from him.
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I wasn’t HIS intern, I was AN intern.
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INterview with the master.
What is your biggest fear?
MURAKAMI: That after I die it won’t just be mu —nothingness.
Come for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stay for Israel’s economy.
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I read the first few pages of Verity, one of her most popular books, and it’s … not good. Within the first couple of pages someone already dies from a car accident, the main character has the dead guy’s blood all over her shirt, and this other random STRANGER guy accompanies her into a coffee shop’s bathroom, locks the door, then helps her clean?
I have a strong feeling that I will DNF this book.
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Circe by Madeline Miller. Not nearly as good as her first book, The Song of Achilles, but I wasn’t surprised. She took something like ten years to write Song, and Circe feels a lot more rushed by comparison.
Still a good book though. I’d recommend it.
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My cousin in Taiwan, who was an English major, said he has a lot of time, so he asked me to recommend three books. I thought about what three books might be good for a Taiwanese person.
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Trust: Social Virtues and the Creation of Propserity by Francis Fukuyama
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World by Paul Davies
Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different
by Douglas Coupland (2021)
5-10 pages each. His first new work since 2013.
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That’s a fantastically horrible cover…
Yea, like DIY help from a friend at AA.
From the guy who is accredited with coining the term Gen X.
Pretty much… 
Does ones brain feel anything?
Were you wearing a blue dress?
I’m not a transvestite.
This book is revealing. For the first 50 years after the publication of On the Origins of Species, Christians were mostly theistic evolutionists like they are today.
Young Earth Creationism wasn’t a thing until the 1920s.
