by vanissadrar | Aug 21, 2026 | Book Review
I’ll be honest—when I first picked up Grieving Is Loving, I expected a book about how to survive grief: something that would explain the stages of mourning, offer comforting advice, and perhaps tell the reader how to slowly return to ordinary life after losing...
by vanissadrar | Aug 12, 2026 | Book Review
When I first picked up Communicating with Cancer Patients, I expected a medical book: something concerned primarily with diagnosis, treatment, chemotherapy, prognosis, and the technical vocabulary surrounding cancer. What I found was something different. John F....
by vanissadrar | Jul 16, 2026 | Book Review
I’ll be honest—when I first picked up AI at War, I expected the usual mixture of technological hype and futuristic speculation: bold predictions about machines transforming warfare, endless references to artificial intelligence, and perhaps a few dramatic claims...
by vanissadrar | Jul 9, 2026 | Book Review
I’ll be honest—when I first picked up Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), I expected a fairly conventional psychology book about cognitive biases, sprinkled with amusing anecdotes about human irrationality. The title certainly suggests something lighthearted....
by vanissadrar | Jun 26, 2026 | Book Review
I’ll be honest — I went into this book a little skeptical. Tech criticism has become its own cottage industry, and a lot of it follows a predictable script: Silicon Valley bad, the internet broken, democracy endangered, see you in the footnotes. Jonathan...
by vanissadrar | Jun 11, 2026 | Book Review
The Big Idea: Reclaim human values, connection, and autonomy in a world increasingly dominated by digital technology and algorithmic thinking. Media theorist and digital culture critic Douglas Rushkoff presents a manifesto for reasserting human agency against...
