Michel L. started reading Teach Your Cat Irish by Anne Cakebread
As Marian Keyes said, what a great idea! And we don’t even have cats anymore
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Brotopia
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is a 'Brotopia' where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. …
Michel L. rated How to Resist Amazon and Why: 4 stars
How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses …
Michel L. rated Alistair MacLean's Air Force One is Down: 3 stars
Michel L. rated Hostage Tower: 3 stars
Hostage Tower by John Denis, Alistair MacLean
Introducing UNACO – the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation – an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest …
Michel L. rated Cosmopolites: 4 stars
Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing …
Michel L. rated Recognizing the Stranger: 5 stars
Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. …
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake is a 1997 semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Marketed as a novel, the book was described as a …
Michel L. reviewed The Rule of Threes by Jeffery Deaver (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
Constant Marlowe follows a serial killer deep into the dark heart of a small town …
Both awful and a page turner at the same time
2 stars
I wanted to know what would happen, but the plot is too outlandish and the glorification of police brutality is just too much.
Abscond by Abraham Verghese
Fate challenges a boy to find his place in the world in a powerful short story from Abraham Verghese, the …
Michel L. rated Eleven Numbers: 4 stars
Eleven Numbers by Lee Child
An American mathematician’s assignment in Russia spirals into a high-stakes maze of shifting loyalties and intrigue in a propulsive short …
Michel L. rated The Southern Tour: 4 stars
The Southern Tour by Jonathan Chatwin
A History Today Book of the Year 2024
On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former …
Michel L. reviewed How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
The influence of modern life on the civil wars, with an emphasis on grievance, faction …
Overly optimistic in hindsight
5 stars
... But the concepts are useful (e.g. anocracy). And the prescription to regulate social media is as important as ever
Michel L. started reading Charlotte by Martina Devlin
My first Cambridge book club book! Had to switch my Kobo to Ireland to get it
Michel L. reviewed Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler
Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the …
Probably the best John Rain novel yet
5 stars
The origin story - as usual, well researched, but also an intriguing guide to the parts of Tokyo from the 70s that still exists today
The origin story - as usual, well researched, but also an intriguing guide to the parts of Tokyo from the 70s that still exists today