I enjoyed this book, but I wish the author was better about including citations for certain facts. There are quite a few claims where I would have appreciated having the confidence of source material. There is a list of citations in the back, but these are not referenced in the text, so what fact came from where is impossible to distinguish.
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Sherbert1848 rated The Hidden Life of Trees: 4 stars

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the …
Sherbert1848 rated The Great Gatsby: 3 stars

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of …
Sherbert1848 rated The Te of Piglet: 3 stars

The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff (The Wisdom of Pooh, #2)
The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way …
Sherbert1848 rated Rock 'n' roll: 3 stars
Sherbert1848 rated Stranger Albert Camus: 4 stars

Stranger Albert Camus by Stuart Gilbert, Albert Camus
L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera …
Sherbert1848 rated Etoiles, garde à vous ! (Starship Troopers): 3 stars

Etoiles, garde à vous ! (Starship Troopers) by Robert A. Heinlein (J'ai lu. Science-fiction -- 562)
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids …
Sherbert1848 rated Too Loud a Solitude: 4 stars

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Funny, absurd, sad, ultimately tragic and at the same time affirmational, this story of Hanta is one of the great …
Sherbert1848 rated The Devil in the White City: 4 stars

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find …
Sherbert1848 reviewed Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Sherbert1848 reviewed The Iliad by Homer
Review of 'The Iliad' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Great story but there is a lot of extraneous detail. Unless you're a Greek historian and plan to make a chart of all the people in the book you could probably skip a large chunk of it with damaging the story.
Sherbert1848 reviewed The Odyssey by Homer
Sherbert1848 rated The Brothers Karamazov: 4 stars

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last …