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Austin Rose

Top Quotes: “A Short History Of Laos: The Land In Between” — Grant Evans

“In the 1950s Laos, newly independent from France, set out to build a modern society but was soon engulfed by the Vietnam War, which…

12h ago

Top Quotes: “A Short History Of Laos: The Land In Between” — Grant Evans

12h ago

Top Quotes: “Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia” — Jeevan Vasagar

“The gum ban was introduced on the grounds that gum residue stuck between train doors could disrupt the smooth running of the mass transit…

4d ago

Top Quotes: “Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia” — Jeevan Vasagar

4d ago

Top Quotes: “What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People” — Joe…

Introduction

Jan 22

Top Quotes: “What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People” — Joe…

Jan 22

Top Quotes: “Niksen: The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing” — Annette Lavrijsen

“Imagine a world in which you stop trying to optimise every single moment, and instead spend your time on the things that truly matter. In…

Jan 20

Top Quotes: “Niksen: The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing” — Annette Lavrijsen

Jan 20

Top Quotes: “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet” — John Green

“The five-star scale has only been used in critical analysis for the past few decades. While it was occasionally applied to film criticism…

Jan 19

Top Quotes: “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet” — John Green

Jan 19

Top Quotes: “Brown Is Redacted” — Kristian-Marc James Paul & Mysara Alijaru

“Kristian points out that “authentic brownness” is the thing that is forbidden in cookie-cuter Singapore. “Because when the minority…

Jan 18

Top Quotes: “Brown Is Redacted” — Kristian-Marc James Paul & Mysara Alijaru

Jan 18

Top Quotes: “This Is What Inequality Looks Like” — You Yenn Teo

“The older ones tend to be in a cluster of three to five adjacent blocks, while the newer ones are single blocks among ‘regular,’…

Jan 17

Top Quotes: “This Is What Inequality Looks Like” — You Yenn Teo

Jan 17

Top Quotes: “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” — Jack Weatherford

Introduction

Jan 16

Top Quotes: “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” — Jack Weatherford

Jan 16

Top Quotes: “Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore” — Sudhir Vadaketh

“We would cycle around Malaysia for a month, visiting every state in peninsular Malaysia and meeting random people along the way. We also…

Jan 11

Top Quotes: “Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore” — Sudhir Vadaketh

Jan 11

Top Quotes: “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting” —…

Introduction

Jan 8

Top Quotes: “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting” —…

Jan 8

Austin Rose

Austin Rose

I read non-fiction and take copious notes. Currently traveling around the world for 5 years, follow my journey at https://peacejoyaustin.wordpress.com/blog/

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