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Review: 'Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack' by Benjamin Franklin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin is a short book that contains hundreds of quotes and sayings...
Caroline Selby
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Review: 'A Man Without A Country' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut is Vonnegut’s final book written and published before he died. Rather than a novel,...
Caroline Selby
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Review: 'To A God Unknown' by John Steinbeck
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck tells the story of Joseph Wayne, a man who embarks on a journey to California in order to...
Caroline Selby
Jul 25, 20202 min read
Review: 'God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut is a short book containing 21 fictional interviews given by the author to...
Caroline Selby
Jul 20, 20201 min read
Review: 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a classic dystopian novel narrated by the story's protagonist Alex. At first it...
Caroline Selby
Jul 20, 20202 min read
Review: 'If This Isn't Nice, What Is?' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? contains 18 speeches given by Kurt Vonnegut, which are selected and introduced by his friend...
Caroline Selby
Jul 19, 20201 min read
Review: 'Blue Horses' by Mary Oliver
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Blue Horses by Mary Oliver is a poetry collection that contains 38 poems by the poet, each with a unique style, structure,...
Caroline Selby
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Review: 'Best Remembered Poems' by Martin Gardner (Editor)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Best Remembered Poems, edited and annotated by Martin Gardner, is an extensive collection of poetry that contains poems from...
Caroline Selby
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Review: 'All My Sons' by Arthur Miller
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 All My Sons by Arthur Miller is a play that recounts the story of machine shop partners Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, who...
Caroline Selby
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Review: 'Men Without Women' by Ernest Hemingway
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway is a collection comprised of fourteen short stories, ten of which were previously...
Caroline Selby
Jul 13, 20201 min read
July 2020 Classic of the Month: 'Slaughterhouse-Five'
How Kurt Vonnegut's famous war book is much more personal than you think. The classic of the month for July 2020 is Slaughterhouse-Five...
Caroline Selby
Jul 13, 20203 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: June 2020
Looking forward to July! In June 2020, I read a total of 4 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) They Say / I Say by...
Caroline Selby
Jul 3, 20201 min read
Review: 'Closely Watched Trains' by Bohumil Hrabal
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, and finished it yesterday. This short novel tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a...
Caroline Selby
Jul 2, 20201 min read
Review: 'Jailbird' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut tells the life story of Walter F. Starbuck. Narrating his first days of freedom after being in...
Caroline Selby
Jul 2, 20202 min read
Review: 'A Hell Called Ohio' by John M Hamilton
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Hell Called Ohio by John M Hamilton tells the story of Warrell Swanson, a factory worker living a simple life in Defiance,...
Caroline Selby
Jun 17, 20202 min read
June 2020 Classic of the Month: 'Night'
How Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir will break your heart over and over again. The classic of the month for June 2020 is Night by Elie...
Caroline Selby
Jun 13, 20202 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: May 2020
Looking forward to June! In May 2020, I read a total of 5 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) Charles Bukowski: A...
Caroline Selby
Jun 2, 20201 min read
Review: 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel narrated by Offred, a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. In...
Caroline Selby
May 30, 20202 min read
Review: 'Slapstick' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut tells a story through the eyes of Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, the current King of Manhattan and...
Caroline Selby
May 19, 20202 min read
Review: 'Night Road' by Kristin Hannah
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Night Road by Kristin Hannah tells the story of the Farraday family, and Lexi Baill, the girl who changes their lives...
Caroline Selby
May 13, 20201 min read
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