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In this book review essay, we delve into the world of Bonnie Garmus’s “Lessons in Chemistry,” a novel that explores the journey of a young woman’s self-discovery and empowerment in a male-dominated field.
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us, from its 2016 publication and 2022 bestseller surge to the 2024 film: what the novel does, and the criticism it has drawn.
“The Good Life” by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz is a book that explores the secrets of living a happy and fulfilling life, drawing on the insights of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever conducted. The study followed two groups of men, some who were Harvard sophomores in 1938, and some who grew up in Boston’s poorest neighborhoods, over the course of 75 years.
Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money argues that behavior matters more than knowledge. Where the book came from, its best chapters on luck, risk and “enough,” and the criticisms it has drawn.
A review of Jordan B. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: how the book began on Quora, what its twelve rules say, and why critics and readers still split over it.
Hill said Andrew Carnegie handed him the assignment behind Think and Grow Rich. Carnegie’s biographer found no evidence the two ever met. What the book teaches, what critics found, and what holds up.