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Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, …
I first read this 25 years ago and a revisit was due. It feels like every page somehow delivers a laugh, followed by a gut punch. More timely than ever.
One of the worst books I've ever read.
for 362 pages bookclub. i'm only 8 chapters in and it is one of the most infuriatingly awful books i've ever read.
Far too long, those who are naturally quiet, serious or sensitive have been overlooked. The …
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island …
I don't know how this ended up on my To Read list, but it annoyed me greatly. Feels like a book to satisfy a publishing contract.
In another land far from the shoreline of Aura, war was raging, and Lady Catherine …
for 372 pages
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. …
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when …
Overall very good. I was afraid it would be yet another "achieve more with this one crazy hack" type books, but it was more focused on the research.
The chapter towards the end that talks about the potential of AI felt cringey, misguided and tacked on, but understandable.
I almost feel like this book was written specifically for me. I read one chapter a day (admittedly missing occasional days) which worked really well. Every chapter had something relevant for me to take away and ponder further.
I plan to revisit it every few months.
Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's first novel. It was shortlisted …
No doubt a not insignificant amount of the love I have for this book is down to the borderline concerning degree to which I relate to the main character, Bob Comet, especially during his childhood.
It will stick with me for a long time. Probably my favourite book in a while.
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and …
