During the last days of World War II, a woman in Berlin kept a diary. She wrote of the daily struggles of existence in an utterly destroyed city. Of days spent hiding in cellars. Of starvation and sickness. Of mass rape and sexual assault of German women by occupying Soviet soldiers. Of surviving by any …
I still have this idea of myself that I voraciously devour books. But to be quite honest, while I’m still a great book lover, I’m reading fewer and fewer each year. This has everything to do with the long hours I’m putting in at work, more time spent on running and fitness related activities, and …
Quite honestly, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is a book I probably never would have read, had it not been for all the attention that’s been paid to the recent film adaptation. The New Yorker’s interview with the filmmakers (Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings) about the process of translating this complicated book into film is what first …
After seeing David Agus on the Daily Show, and receiving The End of Illness as a birthday gift from some work colleagues (thanks guys!), I was looking forward to some new insights from this book. I wish I could say that it lived up to its promises (and my expectations): Can we live robustly until …