While it is uniquely and overtly Jewish in the details of the story, Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is also about growing up in a house with a doctrine that is similar to your friend’s but not the same.
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Avoid your own brain rot, and read ‘Bit Rot’
As someone who has, at this point, read almost every easily accessible published work of Douglas Coupland, this book is something of a crescendo.
“Bit Rot” is shorts and essays, from some things I have read and many that are new to me. But it is the crux of the book’s essence that’s amazing to experience.
Declassify >Fifty years later, All the President’s Men is still the ultimate true crime book
Given my interest in politics and a college minor in journalism, it’s amazing it took me this long to read All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But it’s 50 years after its publication, and it is still a fast-paced, well-written masterpiece.
It is a balm in troubling times that despite some of the horrors of the world, great investigative journalism was alive and well, and it could be again.
Declassify >Long-term shelf commitment or One Read Stand?
As I mentioned in my post about the Blind Date with a Bookstore, I selected to receive two books in my curated box and this is a review of those two books.
While I enjoyed both books, I did not think I could come up with enough to say about both individually to write separate reviews and honestly, since they arrived together and I read them back to back, it made sense to write about them together.
Declassify >The Last Amateurs is a slam-dunk look at the formation of the Patriot League
John Feinstein’s The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball is a love letter to amateur athletics and the notion of the unironic “student” athlete.
In the book, he chronicles the 1999-2000 Patriot League Basketball season. The Patriot League is something I guess I took for granted, as it is in my backyard. But for those who don’t know, it’s academically right up there with the Ivy League.
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