Okay, you guys warned me about this one, and you were right — devastating doesn’t begin to describe it. “…You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.” Written as a series of letters to her husband, Eva Khatchadourian tells us the story of a Thursday that will forever be […]

I kept thinking while listening to this audiobook: “This is what Orson Scott Card would write if he decided to tackle economics instead of world politics”. It’s a lot of talking, a lot of smart people arguing, and way more interesting that you’d expect. Lionel Shriver (who is apparently a woman?) also wrote We Need to Talk About Kevin, which is next on my TBR. “Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary – just as notional, just as easy come and […]