Trove - December 6, 2022
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Hi everyone,
I’m back from a quick trip to LA to take the JLPT N3. I feel like I passed, and will find out my results around February :D There were challenging sections of kanji characters that I just flat out didn’t recognize but luckily the grammar and listening sections felt more comfortable. Even if I don’t immediately use the certification, signing up for a test like this gave a nice deadline to motivate myself to study.
Here’s your weekly trove of recommendations. If you enjoy it, please feel free to forward this along to friends.
This Two books I’m digging into
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor.
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption.
A faithful video-game to HBO series adaptation
via @mrjeffu: Osaka’s Tennōji Zoo held a training exercise today to prepare staff for the possibility of a lion escape. As you can see from this NHK news video, they put great effort into making it very realistic.
Thanks for reading Trove. See you next week!
What was your favorite recommendation this week? Want to just say hi?
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-Tobin