I loved all the footnotes and insights to the inspiration behind the musical Hamilton in this book. My favorite useless-but-fun insight was learning that the song "You'll Be Back" was inspired by the Beatles and then Lin-Manuel actually got to meet a real Beatle! Flying high on getting to see Hamilton on stage a few months ... Read More »
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Book Review: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels immediately reminded me of the Princess Bride. They are both travel novels that make fun of travel novels by having the author retell someone else's story but edit out the things they don't like from the "original" story. For Princess Bride, it was pages and pages of packing and unpacking from the fictional ... Read More »
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