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• In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove.
• The beginning of the book starts with his sailing adventures with his dad
• This also explains why it was possible for him to do that with such a young age: His dad supported him and already took him sailing when he was just a small kid
• He also got support from the National Geographic which reported about his travels and not only paid him but also supported him on his journey
• Some parts (maybe even most) of the book are more written like a Journal. So it is not like a novel, but more like I read someone else's diary.
• I don't think it can be taken too much as an inspiration for today's world
  • He was very young and back then not many people sailed around the world
  • Nowadays, there are a ton of YouTubers who sail around the world, some are very near to the age he had
  • He got the support from his dad and National Geographic, I don't think it would be easy to get this kind of support in today's world
• I like his story. It is especially fascinating to read for sailing addicted people like me

• Steven Levy basically reported about Facebook since the early beginning, he knows Mark Zuckerberg personally and met him multiple times for this book together with other people who worked on Facebook
• He doesn't just write about Facebook, as you might think when reading the title, actually some parts are more like a Biography of Mark Zuckerberg. He even goes into details how Mark's parents met - all this reminds me more of the Biographies about Steve Jobs and Elon Musk I read.
• He really describes the history and architecture of Facebook well
• It gives a lot of details about the strategies Facebook used or still uses

• The Hobbit is a bit short
• Lord of the Rings has some Chapters - especially the fights - which are hard to read

Other than that, I don't have any complaints, and it's one of my favorite series

• Ronan Farrow is the kid of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow
• He is an investigative journalist
• The book is about the sexual abuse of powerful Hollywood producers like Harvey Weinstein
• It is interesting because I also read the book of Ronan Farrows father (Woody Allen) who is accused of having sexually abused his own daughter
• In Woody Allen's book he says he did never abuse her and that this is ridiculous, in this book Ronan seems to believe the side of his mother and sister more even though he was at the time too little so he didn't notice anything
• He shows how powerful people like Harvey Weinstein, Trump and leading people at NBC and CBS used their power to sexually abuse young women
• He also shows how these companies protected their leaders even though they destroyed lives

It is okayish - because I don't have any connection to Woody Allen it was kinda boring for me