Tag: Grade A+
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The Big Short : Michael Lewis
Let me start out by saying this is one of the most important stories of our era, and Michael Lewis has done a masterful job of telling it. Watching the onion of Wall Street being peeled back by a handful of far-sighted and somewhat eccentric short sellers was the perfect way to frame this narrative.…
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of : Julian Barnes
I’ve read of couple of Barnes’s fiction books in the past, but none of them impressed me the way this one did. Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a kind of reverse-angle autobiography — instead of a chronicle of a given life, he presents the frankness of an inquiry into what a given death might…