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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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.
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.
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 …
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There …
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the …
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary …
Imagine America devastated by a vast killer plague that moves from coast to coast. Imagine the countryside destroyed and great …
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
