Carson Reads

Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor and author of the French fashion magazine Elle . When he was 43 years old he had a massive stroke but was saved! Well, kind of, they kept Bauby alive but he now suffered from something that is called "locked-in syndrome". He was left completely paralyzed except for the use of his left eyelid. In this memoir about his life, he illustrates how he remains...

Normal People is what happens when you take talented writing and pair it with a plotless series of vignettes depicting an unrealistic and frustrating relationship between two very ABnormal people. It follows Connell and Marianne and is set in a fictitious city in modern-day Ireland. Connell is poor but ultra-popular and very athletic. Marianne is very rich but a bit of a loser. Both are very intel...

"Dear Pat, You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and said, 'Why don’t you make something for me?' I asked what you wanted, and you said, 'A box.' 'what for?' 'To put things in.' 'What things?' 'Whatever you have,' you said. Well, here's your box. Nealy everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts...

Written by Mitch Albom, this book spans 196 small pages. It follows an old man named Eddie. The storyline starts at the end and follows Eddie as he is involved in a terrible amusement park ride accident. In the next life, he meets 5 people who have had some contact with Eddie or influenced his life while he was still alive. These are the five people who help him, "make sense of [his] yesterdays" (...

I just read The Common Path to Uncommon Success by John Lee Dumas  I didn’t know what to expect going into this book, I knew it was in the vein of self-help and I had just heard about it from people probably from my business classes in college or in a Twitter thread on business books that everyone should read. The book is 258 pages long and is supposed to teach lay folk like you and me how to...

I just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton today, Christmas Day 2022. Listen now to see my review of the book! Ethan Frome is set in New England, I think in Massachusetts. He lives in the small town of Starkfield. It's wintertime. It was written in 1911 and the story also takes place around that time. The book is less than 200 pages, 181 to be exact, and if it would've been written with regular-...