I have enjoyed all of the books that I’ve read by Ben Mezrich so I was excited to see that he had a new book out. He typically writes about exceptional college students who are able to use their intelligence to beat the system (Vegas, the Nikkei) and become very wealthy at a young age. [...]
Archive > February 2010
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder writes about an exceptional young man who escaped the horrors of genocide in Burundi and Rwanda in 1993 and 1994 only to spend the next ten years working hard to pick up where his life left off and return to make his home in Burundi a better place. Deo was a third year [...]
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This is a book that is set in Afghanistan from the 1970s through the present time. It follows the rise and fall of different forces and how it impacts the every day life of every day people. The two main characters are women and the violence and pain that they experience is hard to read [...]