Avid bedtime reader, lover of sci-fi, mystery, and suspense. If you looked at my bookshelf you'd see a lot of nonfiction, despite how little I read it. All the good fiction I read gets passed on, the rest gets donated.
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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap …
The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities
“A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to …
The Book Thief is a novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and is his most popular book. Published in …
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last …
Absolutely harrowing. I find myself in awe of Sir Shackleton's ability to lead his crew through two years of survival against impossible odds.
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set …
A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a …
A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a …
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like …
After feeling stupid for having missed obvious foreshadowing in American Gods, I was vigilant while reading Anansi Boys, yet I was still surprised at the end. Great read!
Aims to help alcoholics change their relationship with drinking, showing the psychological and cultural aspects …
I owe this book, Annie Grace, Albert Hofmann, and the community at /r/StopDrinking an enormous debt of gratitude. With their help, I was able to quit drinking, which I had started at age 14.
While there are many approaches to treating alcoholism, Annie Grace uses a non-dogmatic, evidence-based, logical approach to understanding the mechanisms of addiction. The thought is that the more you understand how addiction occurs in the mind, the more you have to draw upon to get free from it.
I still have things in my life to work on, but I'm no longer holding myself back.
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying …
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like …
I loved American Gods, so I'm coming back for more.
Beth Harmon, an orphan by eight years old, is unremarkable. She is plain and she knows it. In the Kentucky …
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres is massive enough to hold …
