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Review: 'Magritte' by Marcel Paquet
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Magritte by Marcel Paquet explores the famous surrealist painter René Magritte’s life and art. It is divided into the...
Caroline Selby
Jan 1, 20211 min read
Review: 'The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain'
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, beginning with an introduction and brief timeline of the famous writer’s life, contains...
Caroline Selby
Dec 31, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Quantity Theory of Insanity' by Will Self
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self consists of six short stories. In 'The North London Book of the Dead,' the...
Caroline Selby
Dec 31, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Elements of Style' by William Strunk
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Elements of Style by William Strunk, as the introduction states, “aims to give in brief spaces the principle requirements of...
Caroline Selby
Dec 31, 20201 min read
Review: 'Uelsmann: Process and Perception' by Jerry Uelsmann and John Ames
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Uelsmann: Process and Perception by Jerry Uelsmann and John Ames contains photographs and commentary by Uelsmann along with...
Caroline Selby
Dec 29, 20201 min read
Review: 'Steal Like an Artist' by Austin Kleon
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, as the cover states, details “10 things nobody told you about being creative.” The 10...
Caroline Selby
Dec 29, 20201 min read
Review: 'Rumi, Day by Day' by Maryam Mafi
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Rumi, Day by Day by Maryam Mafi is an anthology containing poems on topics including friendship, love, spirituality, and life...
Caroline Selby
Dec 24, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin gives a voice to the civil rights movement as it was emerging in the early 1960s. It...
Caroline Selby
Dec 24, 20201 min read
December 2020 Classic of the Month: 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
Why Khaled Hosseini's story about two women in Afghanistan needs to be heard. The classic of the month for December 2020 is A Thousand...
Caroline Selby
Dec 19, 20204 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: November 2020
Looking forward to December! In November 2020, I read a total of 6 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) Twelve Angry Men...
Caroline Selby
Dec 10, 20201 min read
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
November 2020 Classic of the Month: 'Frankenstein'
How a novel Mary Shelley wrote at just 19 years old has continued to impact the world, centuries after being written. The classic of the...
Caroline Selby
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: October 2020
Looking forward to November! In October 2020, I read a total of 3 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) The Nobel Lecture...
Caroline Selby
Nov 7, 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
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