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Matthew Merkovich

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Joined 3 years ago

I should update my books read more often, and I should write better and more reviews.

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Hank Green: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (2020)
Michael Crichton, Michaël Crichton: Sphere (AudiobookFormat, 2001, Random House Audio)
T. S. Eliot: The Wasteland Prufrock and Other Poems (2008, Waking Lion Press)

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Maurice Gee: Motherstone (2005, Puffin Books)
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Maurice Gee: The priests of Ferris (1984, Oxford University Press)
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Maurice Gee: The Halfmen of O (1982, Oxford University Press)

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Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged (1999)

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reviewed Until I Say Goodbye My Year Of Living With Joy by Bret Witter

Bret Witter: Until I Say Goodbye My Year Of Living With Joy (2013, Hodder & Stoughton General Division)

I could relate to her struggle with her own mortality and struggle with ALS, but ...

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She's not particularly easy to empathize on a social level. She's enjoyed a lot of luck in life leading up to her diagnosis, and the journalist in her seems to not want to go into a deeper exploration of her emotions. As a result, I didn't connect with the material at all.

reviewed Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Year of Magical Thinking (2005, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

How a wealthy powerful person feels when her wealthy powerful husband dies.

Hard to empathize with the author with all the socioeconomic baggage she lays out in this book, and she appears to have no self awareness about this. Having spent a life in the movie business myself, I've met many like her. She seems to be the prototypical limousine liberal.