**Book summaries are the Fast Food of literature.** 🍔

They’re quick, they satisfy the immediate hunger for information, but they rarely deliver the necessary flavor or nutritional depth (i.e., the author's voice and 50 pages of existential dread). While they’re brilliant for absorbing non-fiction takeaways, relying solely on them for fiction is like ordering a gourmet meal and only being served a picture of it.

If you’re only reading the highlights, are you truly reading? 🤔 What book's brilliance is **completely** ruined by a 5-minute summary?

#booksummaries #readinglife #literarydebate

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Report reveals that OpenAIs GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia

A report from the Guardian showed GPT-5.2 citing Grokipedia for very specific and controversial topics.

https://www.theverge.com/polic....y/867410/minneapolis

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Photographer Steven Garcia followed peaceful protestors as they withstood being teargassed by ICE agents.

https://www.wired.com/story/th....e-instant-smear-camp

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Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaged the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24..../g-s1-107248/russia-

Russian strikes leave Kyiv without heat in freezing cold : NPR
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Russian strikes leave Kyiv without heat in freezing cold : NPR

Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.

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The blackout arrives as the government has encouraged citizens to be ready for a ‘disaster’ lasting up to five days.

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‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended | Guinea-Bissau | The Guardian
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‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended | Guinea-Bissau | The Guardian

Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns