Books – SweetS

Tokyo’s Downsize Dwelling: a sense of connection is all we need

I first came across this book through a couple of recent podcasts. In one, a lawyer and debater I deeply respect recommended it. In another, the host interviewed the author. While I wasn’t particularly impressed by that interview, the book itself lingered in my mind, and eventually, I decided to give it a read. TheContinue reading “Tokyo’s Downsize Dwelling: a sense of connection is all we need”

The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

This book was a long read, and it was not an easy one either. It took me almost a month to finish it, and from time to time I felt the impulse to flip back a couple of pages to check the earlier stories of that person that was mentioned later in the book againContinue reading “The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China”

Bad Blood: Evil Money Can Buy Everything, But Don’t Be That Asshole

The hype of Theranos scandal and its founder Elizabeth Holmes drove me to the reading of this book, Bad Blood. It was a book about how this smart young lady who dropped out from Stanford founded a company that aimed to fundamentally change the way people draw bloods, which later turned out to be aContinue reading “Bad Blood: Evil Money Can Buy Everything, But Don’t Be That Asshole”