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A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April …
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at …
4.5 probably but I’ve found myself thinking about this world more often than almost any book I’ve read this year. (The Great Believers is #1, but that could be recency bias)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier …
3.5 stars
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do …
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is …
Part one is a slog. Picks up in Part Two. They’re not good books, but they’re fun, enjoyable books.
My biggest issue being that the writing feels anachronistic at times. It’s not clear what time the book is set in, but I really don’t think anyone in whatever time it is would says “what the actual fuck”
The ex-Mormon-learning-to-swear energy isn’t as strong in this book though. I’ll definitely keep reading the series.
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” …
Many of my favorite stories center around what it means to be a good person, redemption, and ethics. Upon finishing a quote from The Good Place (of all places) popped into my head.
“It turns out life isn’t a puzzle that can be solved one time and it’s done. You wake up every day, and you solve it again.”
I would die for Lee, and I would happily read an entire book of him and Sam chatting about life.
At some point we all make a bad decision, do something that harms another person, or cling to an outdated …
Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, has become a galvanizing force for social change; here, …
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues, …
