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jlevesque rated Atlas of the Heart: 4 stars
jlevesque rated Les Frères Karamazov: 4 stars
Les Frères 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 …
jlevesque rated The Alchemist: 3 stars
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of …
jlevesque rated The Dispossessed: 3 stars
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, and attempt to tear down …
jlevesque rated Braiding Sweetgrass: 3 stars
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)
From Brandon Sanderson―author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War …
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …
jlevesque rated Iron Kingdom: 4 stars
jlevesque rated La femme independante (extraits le Second Sexe): 5 stars
La femme independante (extraits le Second Sexe) by Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which …
jlevesque rated Talking to Strangers: 3 stars
jlevesque rated Four Thousand Weeks: 4 stars
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
