Jamie rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 4 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
I really have to read this whole cycle now.
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I go through periods of heavy reading, but I've been in grad school for a bit now and I'm not posting all those. When I get back to more pleasure reading, there will be a lot of sci-fi, literary fiction, and occasional histories and biographies.
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Jamie rated Go Set A Watchman: 3 stars
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, …
Jamie rated Little Book of Hygge: 3 stars
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers …
Jamie rated The Water Dancer: 4 stars
Jamie rated Escape from Freedom: 4 stars
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar …
Jamie rated And Shall Machines Surrender: 4 stars
And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies-called …
Jamie rated The Rosewater Redemption: 2 stars
The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #3)
Jamie rated Something Wicked This Way Comes: 3 stars
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic …
Jamie reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #6)
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
Review of 'The Dispossessed' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Jamie rated The Ascent to Godhood: 4 stars
The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang (Tensorate, #4)
The Protector is dead.
For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies …
Jamie rated How Emotions Are Made: 4 stars
Jamie rated How music works: 4 stars
How music works by David Byrne
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into …
Jamie rated An elderly lady is up to no good: 4 stars
An elderly lady is up to no good by Helene Tursten
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This …