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Collection of lectures by award-winning American poet Mary Ruefle.
The author writes an account of her relationship with her pit bull Rosie. Starting from …
i’m not sure i would recommend this widely because maybe 25% of it was too loose association for me and i couldn’t follow. i think the more eileen myles you’ve read the better you’ll be able to follow those parts
otherwise very beautiful passages about life sex dogs god mailmen humans as animal etc.
not so sad for a dog book. rosie!
This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing …
BIG NOVEL!!
contains vast expanses of life, including about three dozen incredibly beautiful passages of characters reflecting on their life with the full scope of birth and death behind them and before them.
that being said it’s VERY long and there were only barely enough plot points or tension scraped onto the dry whole wheat toast to get me through it.
the treatment & experiences of the non white people brutalized by colonialism was (imo) nuanced but still very minimized. it’s a whhite book and i didn’t possess my own supplemental understanding of the region’s history to layer in my own context & nuance. :/
i look forward to reading some of her shorter work
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and …
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq.
Then a search of …
Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they …
i love this angle on understand human spaces, tons of thoughtful digestible insights. the format is weird, it would actually work better as a website- think an opinionated TV tropes for architecture and interior design.
5 stars if it had a modicum or class awareness
The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated …
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns …
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
Albert Camus: [1948 Modern Library Edition] The Plague by Albert Camus; Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert (1948, ML)
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a …
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
