Rbeagrie rated Factfulness: 3 stars
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. …
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Rbeagrie rated The Wise Man’s Fear: 5 stars
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger …
Rbeagrie rated The Bone Clocks: 4 stars
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is …
Rbeagrie rated The Three-Body Problem: 5 stars
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1)
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with …
Rbeagrie rated Say Nothing: 5 stars
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this …
Rbeagrie rated The Good Immigrant: 5 stars
Rbeagrie rated The Name of the Wind: 5 stars
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan …
Rbeagrie rated The Midnight Library: 3 stars
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on …
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She …
Rbeagrie rated BookofTrespass: 4 stars
BookofTrespass by Nick Hayes
Non-fiction memoir, The Book of Nick Hayes (Berkshire, public school, Cambridge, and it shows)
Rbeagrie rated The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: 5 stars
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …
Rbeagrie rated Wuthering Heights: 3 stars
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (The World's classics -- 10)
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families …
Rbeagrie rated Ramble Book: 3 stars
Rbeagrie rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 3 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …