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The Anthropocene Reviewed Book Review: Why Five Stars Can’t Hold a Broken World
A five-star scale cannot hold a planet that keeps breaking our hearts.
Read storyHow to Read Someone’s Mind Book Review: Why You Talk Yourself Out of What You Already Know
What if the real reason you miss the warning signs is that you were taught to ignore them?
Read storyHow to Read Someone’s Mind Book Review: The Cost of Always Watching
This book promises you X-ray vision into other people's souls, but it quietly asks a harder question about the person doing the watching.
Read storyCrying in H Mart Book Review: When Love Speaks Only Through Food
She learned to cook Korean food only because her mother was dying. That's the whole tragedy in one sentence.
Read storyJane Austen’s Bookshelf Book Review: The Women She Read
A rare book dealer tracks down the women writers who inspired Jane Austen and asks why they were forgotten. Part literary history, part detective story.
Read storyThe Parent You Aspire to Be Book Review: The Argument You Keep Having Is the Point
The same argument with your child keeps happening, and Miles Carter thinks that repetition is the message.
Read storySay It Right Every Time Book Review: The Quiet Power of Saying What You Mean
You don't have a personality problem. You have a phrasing problem, and this book quietly proves it.
Read storyAwakening to Human Nature Book Review: The Cost of Seeing People Clearly
A practical guide that teaches you to read people before they read you, and asks whether clarity must cost you warmth.
Read storyThe Glass Castle Book Review: A Memoir That Refuses to Hate Its Parents
A memoir that makes you furious at parents you're never allowed to fully condemn.
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