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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • Without knowing your interests and going off recent reads:

    Autobiographical: Shoe Dog (phil knight) or The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (b franks)

    Fantasy?: The Song of Achilles or The Children of Hurin (part of the tolkien middle earth legendarium)

    Personal Improvement: Atomic Habits

    Historical Drama? The Things They Carried or your choice of a David McCollough book

    Adventure: Endurance, Shackletons Incredible Voyage

    Societal: Guns, Germs, & Steel or Sapiens (sapiens a more digestible option tbh)

    To pick only 3, of which I enjoyed all: shoe dog, the things they carried, song of achilles

    If you end up on any of em lmk, I’d be happy to hear your thoughts


  • One of the least satisfying books I’ve ever read. Truly senseless. As mysteries go, the reader has 0% of predicting the resolution based on the text (you could, of course, randomly guess the ending). I will never recommend that book and have only ever suggested against it.

    In a similar style, Glass Onion provides 0 opportunity for the viewer to intervene in the story. You get to be a passive viewer/reader, the last thing you want in a mystery. It’s lazy storytelling marketed really well in both cases