Adam Grant's book, Give and Take is an interesting angle of looking at personality classifications. As compared to classifications like the Gallup strengths assessment or even the big 5 personality test, Grant keeps it quite simple with his assertion that every person in the workplace falls into one of three categories; givers, takers, and matchers. Givers are... Continue Reading →
Manhattan Beach written by Jennifer Egan is a rather long novel (approximately 400 pages) that focuses on the lives of three different people living in New York before and during the second world war. Ed Kerrigan is a husband and father of two daughters, Anna and Lydia, who is forced to engage in morally ambiguous... Continue Reading →
The Shape Of Water By now I am sure we all know that the Shape of Water won the best picture award at the Oscars this year. I absolutely adore this film and was anxious that the Academy would commit its characteristic atrocities and give the award to a different film, thank goodness this was... Continue Reading →
Call Me By Your Name Call Me by Your Name was released in 2017 and stars Timothée Chalamet in the leading role of Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver. The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino is set in a small Italian village one summer during the early 1980s and revolves around the development of seventeen-year-old... Continue Reading →
The Phantom Thread As this is the first review I am writing for this blog, I find it appropriate to provide a brief explanation of how I am going to approach them. (Feel free to skip this portion if it is of no interest to you, but just know you can’t say I didn’t... Continue Reading →
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