Laughed Out Loud

Wow! What a life! (thus-far). Trevor Noah, shares stories of his childhood growing up in South Africa during the tail-end of apartheid. Being born, half black, half white, he was Born a Crime under the racist laws of apartheid. The lessons on the journey finding one's identity and cultivating craftiness and ingenuity…

A recommended read for the super curious and or Mad Scientists. Seriously though, "What if?" is packed with smart wit and humor, from the creator of the XKCD webcomics that you've probably seen somewhere on the online. The book creates an immense feeling of wonder, blending together science, creativity, and curiosity.…

A plot similar to The Jungle Book and Tarzan, with the essence of a Tim Burton Movie and extravagant spooky characters like those Halloween movie specials the Disney Channel used to feature. And yet, The Graveyard book stood all on its own, with amazing writing and creativity from Gaiman. Not only did this book bring…

We sure have a tendency to overcomplicate things for ourselves. I found this book painfully relevant and a necessary author and reader dialog to have. In Modern Romance, Aziz scales back from humor and tries to take the topic of dating more seriously. He partners with a Sociologist to back up some of his claims with…

I felt there was some awesome life impacting gems of wisdom, hidden between random thoughts and rambles. Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, popular comic strip known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office. I was still in elementary school during the comic's peak so I couldn't…

Willa Wonka meet's the Matrix, is a good world colliding analogy to describe Ready Player One, set in a dystopian world where people escape into the massively popular virtual utopia called 'OASIS'. The story follows Wade Watts, whose world resolves around the OASIS and finding the egg hidden in the game by it's…

Beautiful illustrations unnecessarily constrained by oversimplified vocabulary. I enjoyed What If? much more than Thing Explainer because What If didn't lower the bar but brought you up to it. Thing Explainer explains various inventions, biological and astronomical occurrences in simple words, limited to a vocabulary…