1991
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Data scientist, avid book reader, elderly puppy herder
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Joerg rated And they didn't die: 4 stars
And they didn't die by Lauretta G. Ngcobo (The women writing Africa series)
Joerg rated The Country of the Blind: 5 stars
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn …
Joerg wants to read How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Elizabeth Acevedo
Joerg rated Little Family: 4 stars
Joerg rated General in His Labyrinth: 4 stars
Joerg rated The Manual of Detection: 4 stars
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, …
Joerg rated A Natural History of Empty Lots: 4 stars
A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown
During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of …
Joerg reviewed Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: …
A fart, not even wet
1 star
I have no idea how this got these rave ratings. Someone had about a quarter of a short story and then filled in odious amounts of ramblings that are pseudo-ominous with bizarre sprinkles of discussions of race and class written by those aliens from the cartoon that do not really understand even the most basic human things but try to imitate them.
Joerg rated In the Dream House: 5 stars
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. In this extraordinarily candid …
Joerg rated The Prospector: 3 stars
Joerg reviewed The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas
Mixed bag
3 stars
On the one hand, there are a lot of very smart little insights into trying to become an adult and dealing with different cultures, cleverly presented without any anchor points to make them all of ambiguous value. On the other hand, all the characters are absolutely fucking annoying.
Joerg rated The Glass Castle: 3 stars
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once …