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Lucy Cooke: The Truth About Animals (2018)

When seeking to understand animals, context is key. Humans have a habit of viewing the …

Review of 'The Truth About Animals' on 'Goodreads'

This book was hilarious and informative. I learned so much about how great thinkers of their time got even basic things wrong about different animals. Was fascinating to see the animals from their rather primitive perspective due to the limited scientific understanding at the time. Makes you appreciate how we all stand on the shoulders of Giants.

Jason Matthews: Red sparrow (2013, Scribner)

Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, …

Review of 'Red sparrow' on 'Goodreads'

I keep thinking, this is definitely written by a man.

I liked the first parts of the book. But when her uncle brings her in to do a "favor" that ends up pimping her out, that was gross. And then later, she's put on whore school? Not credible and gross to me. Narrator says she finds various things distasteful yet she keeps doing them.

And Nate is supposedly blame worthy for being outed as a spy by process of elimination and good basic tracking of comings and goings at the embassy? Not buying it.