Listening to Tom Hanks reading this book for 10 hours was not too painful 😉 The Dutch House, by Ann patchett, is the story of a family, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, the good and the bad, the young and the old, the happy and the sad, and life. The energy of young people, the forgiveness... Lire la Suite →

This book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (Guide d'un astronaute pour la vie sur terre), is not a romance or mystery novel, or even historical fiction. It’s a reflection on life and hard work, on how to achieve your dreams, and on the meaning of success and happiness. Chris Hadfield, a Canadian who... Lire la Suite →

This is a really scary book by Kerry Howley that tells the true and unsettling story of Reality Winner, a young American woman, who works for the US government. After she leaked a document containing proof of Russian interference in the first Trump election, she became the whistleblower who received the harshest punishment in U.S.... Lire la Suite →

I just finished reading this book, Algorithms, by Panos Louridas (Kindle version). I can safely say that I understood 2/3 of the book, which is not bad, considering my extremely low knowledge of math and computer science. I did learn a few concepts, like searching, sorting, graphs, paths, PageRank, deep learning (I already knew that... Lire la Suite →

Trust, by Hernan Diaz, received many awards and I had it on my to-read list for a long time. I just finished it and can only say a few things about it without revealing too much of the plot. First, it was a story devoid of emotion, written very matter-of-factly, without useless details or embellishments,... Lire la Suite →

What can I say about this very depressing book? It won the Pulitzer Prize and I had it in my to-read list since at least the nineteen-fifties, so I finally decided to listen to it and I am glad it's over! Although maybe it's not... The story of The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is very... Lire la Suite →

This small and weird-looking book, Engines of Engagement--A Curious Book About Generative AI, was written by, among others, Sae Schatz, an international star and leader in all things Generative AI, who advises governments and universities and businesses on how to deal with this new technology and is also the Executive Director of the Partnership for... Lire la Suite →

This very cute book, We'll Prescribe You a Cat, by Syou Ishida, was recommended by my friend Ana. It's the story of a very unusual psychiatrist and his very unusual nurse who prescribe cats to people who are stressed out, depressed, bullied at school, etc. The doctor and the nurse act strangely, and no one... Lire la Suite →

This Side of Brightness, by Colum McCann, was recommended by my German sister to my American sister who recommended it to me! And it was on my wish list for a while because it got many awards, so I bought it before driving back to Canada after my visit to my American sister. I thought... Lire la Suite →

Troublemaker, a short book (less than five hours of listening), was written by John Cho, an actor that I like (and who is exactly my age but sadly married, yes, I've checked). It was the perfect story to listen to on my way back from the US last week. Jordan is a young Korean-American kid... Lire la Suite →

Nothing beats an 8-hour car trip to the US (and 8 hours back to Canada!) when you want to get through a long list of books you've been wanting to read since forever! Get Well Soon, by Jennifer Wright, had been in my to-read list for at least two years! Every chapter talks about a... Lire la Suite →

Wow, Rental Person Who Does Nothing, by Shoji Morimoto, was a strange and fascinating book! My friend Ana recommended it, and she said I should buy the paper version, not the audio version, because of the way the text is organized and there are pictures. She was right. This is a very unusual (and short)... Lire la Suite →

I got this book, Co-intelligence: Living and Working With AI, when it came out three or four months ago, in electronic format, and finally managed to read it. It's not very long (256 pages) and definitely not difficult to read. It's just some thoughts and (semi-latest) research about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and how it... Lire la Suite →

Louise Erdrich's The Sentence took me to a different planet and a different time: November 2019 to November 2020, in Minneapolis. Towards the end of the novel, the main character, Tookie, says, "I want to forget this year, but I’m also afraid I won’t remember this year." This is how I feel, too, about 2020!... Lire la Suite →

About a year ago, I read a book written by a Korean/American musician/artist, Michelle Zauner, about her childhood in the United States and the difficulties she encountered as a child who didn't look like her classmates, whose family didn't eat what her friends' families ate, whose parents had high expectations for her, and who had... Lire la Suite →