Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that will make you reconsider whether you actually want what you think you want — and giv...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that made therapy feel less like a last resort and more like the most practical thing a p...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Originals by Adam Grant: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that made me stop feeling guilty about not quitting my job to follow my passion — and sta...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that will make you feel simultaneously inadequate and more capable than you thought — som...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Martian by Andy Weir: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the novel that made people genuinely excited about botany, orbital mechanics, and the specific cha...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the dystopia that will bother you more than 1984 — because the people in it are perfectly happy, a...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Animal Farm by George Orwell: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that was rejected by T.S. Eliot at Faber and Faber, dismissed by Victor Gollancz as too a...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Stand by Stephen King: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the novel that Stephen King has called his Lord of the Rings — the one where he emptied everything...
Beverly Ashford • 19 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that made people realize that what they thought was a personality flaw or a character wea...
Beverly Ashford • 18 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that opens with a fourteen-year-old girl describing her own murder. Alice Sebold did s...
Beverly Ashford • 13 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that makes you fall in love with people who should be enemies. Ann Patchett wrote a no...
Beverly Ashford • 13 Mar 2026 • 2 min
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book that felt like science fiction until it didn't. Emily St. John Mandel wrote Station El...
Beverly Ashford • 13 Mar 2026 • 2 min