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What People Talk About When They Talk About Sally Rooney Books

Posted on November 2, 2021November 2, 2021by Joe Hovde
Negative reviews of Sally Rooney Books

I recently finished Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You. One of the characters in the book is a novelist who is adjusting to life in the public eye and can’t understand why strangers on the internet feel the need to analyze and comment on her life. It’s easy to imagine that Rooney herself shares […]

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Quantifying the Poker Boom

Posted on July 27, 2020July 27, 2020by Joe Hovde
the poker boom chart

Since reading Maria Konnikova’s terrific new book The Biggest Bluff, I have been on a poker kick. She describes her journey to the World Series of Poker Main Event, poker’s biggest stage, and what it is like to be there. This got me interested in the tournament and its history. I knew poker got incredibly […]

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One Sentence Takeaways from Sixteen Books

Posted on September 26, 2018by Joe Hovde
Takeaways from books

I often wonder how much I retain when I read. I’ll think about a book a lot while I’m reading it, and for the next month or so afterwords, but then largely forget about it. There are a few books I think about a lot, even years afterward (The Black Swan, The Power of Habit […]

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