Heyo, Nik here, delivering hot book summaries fresh off the press!
This week, we also published our review of Masterclass. Personally, I have been using it for over 4 years, and I just love it. Instead of getting a lot of bad, low-quality classes created by random people, I watch THE expert on the topic for an hour or two in videos of insanely high production value.
Besides an extensive walkthrough of the app and web app, listing all pros and cons, and comparing Masterclass to all its main competitors, we've also researched the 10 most popular classes (#1 is negotiation) and picked our own 5 favorites. If you love learning more in less time, do take a look.
Alright, let's get into this week's bestsellers!
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
This is the book about money for the 21st century. It sold over a million copies in record time. Written by award-winning author and investing blogger extraordinaire Morgan Housel, it is a collection of 19 short stories which will help you overcome self-defeating beliefs and dispel the many biases blocking you from saving, spending, and investing your money wisely.
If you want to make better financial decisions, this book is for you.
(ahem, and if you like it, you'll probably also enjoy my book, The 4 Minute Millionaire :))
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
1-Sentence-Summary: The Year of Magical Thinking talks about the process of grief, loss, and how trauma can affect a healthy mind and soul by leaving it empty of joy, all by delving into the life of Joan Didion who learned to overcome these feelings after her husband died and her daughter fell ill.
Top 3 Lessons:
- Sometimes life throws all the storms at us at the same time.
- The loss of a loved one can seriously impact our thinking processes.
- Among the two types of grief, which are normal and pathological, the author experienced the second one.
If you want to know how to process feelings of grief, this book is for you.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
1-Sentence-Summary: Eats, Shoots & Leaves offers a humorous, yet instructive overview of how punctuation rules play a huge part in our writing language and how today's society has become overly relaxed about using the right punctuations marks, leaving grammar-concerned people like her frustrated.
Top 3 Lessons:
- The apostrophe can be used in eight ways correctly.
- Writers can use comas more or less as they please, while they respect the rules of grammar.
- Certain punctuation marks look bad if you overdo them.
If you want to improve your writing while having fun, this book is for you.
The God Equation by Michio Kaku
1-Sentence-Summary: The God Equation presents a factual approach to the theory of life, the inception of the universe, and how modern physics lay the foundation of all natural laws that govern the galaxies, the planets, and our home called Earth.
Top 3 Lessons:
- Newton proved that the laws of nature act equally in every space, in or out of our planet.
- The Theory of Everything states that there are four essential forces of the universe.
- While Einstein didn't believe in God in a literal way, he had his assumptions about deities.
If you want to know which laws govern the universe, this book is for you.
That's all for this week. Enjoy your weekend!
Happy reading,
-Nik
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