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My latest read for the book club was "The Three-Body Problem," a 2008 novel by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. I had purchased the Korean translation about ten years ago but set it aside after only a few chapters, and it slipped from my memory. However, with
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My next book was "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder" by David Grann. Lately, I've developed a routine of visiting Barnes & Noble while waiting for my daughter's art lesson. This book, which was named the 2023 B&N Author
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My next reading was "The Space Between Worlds" by Micaiah Johnson. I have wanted to write a Sci-Fi novel in English someday (one of my goals before hitting the age of 50, which means the clock is ticking for this year). I believe the cornerstone of a compelling
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My recent book reading was "Fairy Tale" by Stephen King. It was my first time reading Stephen King's novel (not even in Korean); I knew some of his works, such as Misery, but mostly by the screen adaptation. I read his memoir "On Writing."
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When I first heard this book's title - An Immense World, I guessed that it would be a book about the grandeur of nature - something about marvelous US National Parks. Only half was correct; it was a book about nature, but not about the spectacular or wilderness.
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I had to choose my next book when I completed "The Dispossessed." Though I mentioned it in a totally different context before, "The Remains of the Day" is one of my favorite novels. So, it was automatic for me to pick up "Klara and the
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On a Saturday afternoon, a friend of my daughter (who met each other at the summer camp) visited our home and occupied the living - and I pushed into the backyard. Under the sunshade of the backyard, I thought it was the best time to write a review for a
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During the Holiday weekend, I read "Press Reset." [https://www.amazon.com/Press-Reset-Recovery-Video-Industry/dp/1538735490/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X4GV4QPY6A4V&keywords=press+reset&qid=1640759881&sprefix=press+reset%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1] The author's (Jason Schreier [https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Schreier/
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I was busy this month, both personally and professionally, due to the move. Although I cannot tell all details, my recent tasks have been mainly a migration: transfer data to a new structure. It is no sophisticated works. But any discrepancy can introduce catastrophic side-effects, so it has kept me
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When I read Ben Horowitz's last book (The Hard things about Hard things [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+hard+thing+about+hard+things&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0rSABhDlARIsAJtjfCc_PIxPZpB1-LF_S46TIr2T5mSQihrX2S2G5wc1nTik7kKMsEcg_-oaAkKrEALw_wcB&hvadid=241639809987&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031971&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&
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If "Disunited Nations" was my book of 2020 for my brain, "Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? [https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Merit-Whats-Become-Common/dp/0374289980/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tyranny+of+merit&qid=1609703215&sr=8-1] (Michael
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During the last Thanksgiving break, I read "Disunited Nations, (Peter Zeihan / Harper Business)." On the verge of 2020, I think it is my (personal) book of the year. The central theme of the book is "geography shapes everything." I always had thought that geography is critical,
