fabian commented on The devil all the time by Donald Ray Pollock
"Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a …
not an ideal bedtime story
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fabian reviewed God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, …
Vonnegut's best
5 stars
fabian rated The House of My Mother: 5 stars
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke
From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse …
fabian reviewed The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at …
Judy Poovey was a real one
5 stars
fabian reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. …
couldn't put it down
5 stars
fabian finished reading I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. …
read in one sitting
fabian rated The Bell Jar: 5 stars
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into …
fabian stopped reading Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
I loved Fight Club, but this book didn't click with me. I found myself hating every character, and the sex scenes were gratuitous, repetitive, and just - overdone to the point of boredom. I got to two-thirds of the book before continuing to read on felt like a chore.
fabian finished reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …
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fabian reviewed Less than zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, …
Disappear Here.
4 stars
I read Less Than Zero after reading American Psycho about a year ago. This is an incredibly powerful book with solid motifs and themes - it almost feels like a prototype of Ellis's future work. Clay's lifestyle, as described, is completely alien to me, personally. Still, Ellis is so effective at conveying the emptiness and the disconnect at the core of these youths' psyche that I cannot help but feel for them despite their overwhelming privilege. The plot isn't exactly linear, but Ellis manages to gets his point across nonetheless. Overall, Less Than Zero is an impressive endeavour for such a young author that I greatly enjoyed reading.
fabian rated When Breath Becomes Air: 5 stars
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi …
fabian rated This Is Going to Hurt: 5 stars
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, …
The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs
The Deep is a 2019 fantasy book by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. It depicts …
fabian reviewed The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods …
Review of 'The Hidden Life of Trees' on 'Storygraph'
Borrowed this from Libby on a whim.
A tad too much wishful thinking and anthropomorphism for my liking. You can tell the author sees his forest's beeches like his own darling children. I admire his passion, but to me, claiming that plants have feelings and such very much diminishes how informative this book would be otherwise.
Still, I appreciated the information on the Wood Wide Web, which I intend to do more reading on.
Borrowed this from Libby on a whim.
A tad too much wishful thinking and anthropomorphism for my liking. You can tell the author sees his forest's beeches like his own darling children. I admire his passion, but to me, claiming that plants have feelings and such very much diminishes how informative this book would be otherwise.
Still, I appreciated the information on the Wood Wide Web, which I intend to do more reading on.
A tad too much wishful thinking and anthropomorphism for my liking. You can tell the author sees his forest's beeches like his own darling children. I admire his passion, but to me, claiming that plants have feelings and such very much diminishes how informative this book would be otherwise.
Still, I appreciated the information on the Wood Wide Web, which I intend to do more reading on.
Ice by Anna Kavan
Published July 1st 2006 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1967)