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Dear Girls Summary

May 24, 2023May 2, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: Dear Girls is a collection of letters written by comedian Ali Wong to her two daughters, recounting tales from her youth and life in an attempt to pass on some hard-earned wisdom to them and anyone willing to listen to her story.

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The Highly Sensitive Person Summary

April 26, 2023April 3, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Highly Sensitive Person is a self-assessment guide and how-to-live template for people who feel, relate, process, and notice more deeply than others, and who frequently suffer from overstimulation as a result.

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Bittersweet Summary

April 19, 2023March 28, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: Bittersweet explains where emotions like sorrow, longing, and sadness come from and what their purpose in our lives is, as well as helping us deal with grief, loss, and our own mortality.

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The Power of Regret Summary

April 12, 2023March 20, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Power of Regret is a deep dive into an emotion we all experience, outlining in three parts why regret makes us more human, not less, which four core regrets plague us all, and how we can accept and reshape our mistakes into better futures instead of keeping them as skeletons in our closets.

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The Financial Diet Summary

March 29, 2023January 5, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Financial Diet is a compendium of clever money tips for beginners, offering thrifty spending advice and sound money strategies in a wide range of areas, such as budgeting, investing, work, food, home, and even love.

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Brave New World Summary

February 15, 2023February 3, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: Brave New World presents a futuristic society engineered perfectly around capitalism and scientific efficiency, in which everyone is happy, conform, and content — but only at first glance.

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1984 Summary

February 8, 2023September 29, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: 1984 is the story of a man questioning the system that keeps his futuristic but dystopian society afloat and the chaos that quickly ensues once he gives in to his natural curiosity and desire to be free.

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The Catcher in the Rye Summary

February 1, 2023February 4, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Catcher in the Rye describes the adventures of well-off teenage boy Holden Caulfield on a weekend out alone in New York City, illuminating the struggles of young adults with existential questions of morality, identity, meaning, and connection.

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Stolen Focus Summary

January 25, 2023June 15, 2023 Niklas Goeke

1-Sentence-Summary: Stolen Focus explains why our attention spans have been dwindling for decades, how technology accelerates this worrying trend, and what we can do to reclaim our focus and thus our capacity to live meaningful lives.

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Our Wild Calling Summary

January 12, 2023January 8, 2023 Maria Deac

1-Sentence-Summary: Our Wild Calling delves into the subject of our lost sense of identity in relation to the natural world and all the living things that surround us, such as plants and animals, and aims to address the need of reconnecting with our wild side. 

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