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Review: 'A Moveable Feast' by Ernest Hemingway
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is a memoir telling Hemingway’s experiences in Paris in the 1920s. Before much of his...
Caroline Selby
Dec 10, 20201 min read
Review: 'Death is Hard Work' by Khaled Khalifa
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa tells a story set right in the heart of Syria’s cataclysmic civil war. In order to...
Caroline Selby
Nov 17, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Subterraneans' by Jack Kerouac
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac tells the story of the relationship and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, two...
Caroline Selby
Nov 17, 20201 min read
Review: 'Exile and the Kingdom' by Albert Camus
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus contains six stories told from a variety of perspectives, all of which portray people...
Caroline Selby
Nov 13, 20201 min read
Review: 'Twelve Angry Men' by Reginald Rose
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose tells the story of twelve jurors, faced with the task of deciding the fate of a teenage...
Caroline Selby
Nov 12, 20201 min read
Review: 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Snyder
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder details “twenty lessons from the twentieth century” on tyranny and how to avoid its control....
Caroline Selby
Nov 7, 20201 min read
Review: 'In Praise of Wasting Time' by Alan Lightman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman argues, as the title states, in favor of wasting time. He suggests that “wasting...
Caroline Selby
Nov 7, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Nobel Lecture' by Bob Dylan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan contains the speech Bob Dylan gave when, on October 13, 2016, he became the first American...
Caroline Selby
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Review: 'Forever' by Pete Hamill
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Forever by Pete Hamill tells the story of Cormac O’Connor, a man who is given immortality, with one small catch - he can never...
Caroline Selby
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Review: 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, the author's first novel, details the life of Paul Proteus. Partly inspired by Vonnegut's...
Caroline Selby
Sep 28, 20201 min read
Review: 'Why I Write' by George Orwell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Why I Write by George Orwell is a book containing four essays written at various times in the author’s life. The essays are...
Caroline Selby
Sep 23, 20202 min read
Review: 'Post Office' by Charles Bukowski
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Post Office by Charles Bukowksi tells the story of Henry Chinaski, a man who’s spent over 12 years working in the U.S. Postal...
Caroline Selby
Sep 20, 20201 min read
Review: 'Anxious People' by Fredrik Backman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman tells the story of a failed bank robbery turned hostage situation when the would-be bank...
Caroline Selby
Sep 19, 20202 min read
Review: 'The Poetry of Walt Whitman'
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Poetry of Walt Whitman is a collection containing 49 poems by the famous poet. The poems range in length from 75 pages...
Caroline Selby
Sep 14, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the sequel to the author's famed dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Although this is...
Caroline Selby
Sep 10, 20201 min read
Review: 'Everything I Never Told You' by Celeste Ng
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng tells the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family living in small-town Ohio...
Caroline Selby
Sep 10, 20202 min read
Review: 'Against Happiness' by Eric G. Wilson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson argues against the societal and especially American addiction to happiness. Wilson...
Caroline Selby
Sep 2, 20202 min read
Review: 'Scar Tissue' by Anthony Kiedis
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis (with Larry Sloman) is the autobiography of the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and...
Caroline Selby
Aug 28, 20202 min read
Review: 'Unsolved Enigmas' by Sam Pilger and Leo Moynihan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Unsolved Enigmas by Sam Pilger and Leo Moynihan contains 39 “incredible events that have puzzled the greatest minds,” as the...
Caroline Selby
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Review: 'Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations' edited by Sam Weller
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations edited by Sam Weller contains four of Bradbury’s final...
Caroline Selby
Aug 18, 20202 min read
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