Reading Time: 2 minutesBook Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind By Yuval Noah Harari Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) Sapiens is a provocative exploration of human history that defies the traditional “textbook” mold. Rather than a dry recitation of dates or the rise and fall of specific empires like the Ottomans, Harari provides a macro-history of…

Reading Time: 2 minutesReview: 1984 George Orwell Rating: ⭐ (1/5) The Review: A Manifesto of Narrated Drivel I’m not going to beat around the bush: this book sucked. It reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, though the only “saving grace” here is that Orwell spared us the 1,300-page slog, clocking in at a merciful…

Reading Time: 2 minutesReview: To Kill A MockingBird Harper Lee Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) Review: To Kill A MockingBird Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird is a profound, must-read classic. Set in a small Alabama town during the Great Depression, as the shadows of World War II began to loom, it offers a haunting look at…

Reading Time: 2 minutesBook Review: PoisonWood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998) is a haunting, unforgettable novel about a missionary family from Georgia who relocates to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Told through the alternating voices of the mother and four daughters, it unravels themes of colonialism, cultural…

Reading Time: 3 minutesReview: John Adams By David McCullough Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) Keeping with our theme of patriotism The book is long and very detailed. It is also the basis of the HBO series Adams, similar to the book and play on Hamilton. I tried to cover in this review everything the book detailed about…

Reading Time: 3 minutesReview: Hamilton Ron Chernow Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow’s monumental biography, traces Hamilton’s rise from poverty in the Caribbean to his place as a Founding Father, the first Secretary of the Treasury, and the chief architect of America’s financial system. Chernow portrays Hamilton as brilliant, driven, and deeply human —…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is not a traditional book review. It is an attempt to better understand a condition that is widely misunderstood—one that affects people close to me. And to be clear, it is not caused by medication, vaccines, or Tylenol. I bought this book because I felt a responsibility to understand autism better.…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLeonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Image is generated by Gemini Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo da Vinci was a fascinating read, and I walked away surprised by how much I didn’t know. We often think of Leonardo primarily as a painter, but the book makes it clear that he was…

Reading Time: 2 minutesOf Mice and Men Genre – Fiction Rating – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5) The Burden of the Dream: A Review of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men This image is generated with Gemini Before John Steinbeck penned his massive epic The Grapes of Wrath, he wrote a short, 100-page novella that remains one of the…