I would love to have more time to read, but life is what it is. With what time I do have, I read a lot of news and occasionally get to read a book. I read English, French, and Arabic.
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This is a haunting and tender tale of an orchardist’s solitary existence, thrown into emotional turmoil when he becomes obsessed …
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds …
A sci-fi action adventure with an inventive story line. This book is almost certainly the inspiration for the new streaming series Silo.
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a …
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a …
An interesting bit of historical fiction that turns Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James Russell Lowell into sleuths solving murders around Boston.
A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing …
A fine story about a moon colony breaking free from its colonial masters on Earth. Viewers (or readers) of The Expanse will see similarities between the moon's residents and the belters.
A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population …
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
There are better books about government control and censorship. Try "Wool" by Hugh Howey, for instance. This reads more like the outline of a good book and lacks any literary power whatsoever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
This is an exchange of letters between two primary players, both aristocrats with nothing better to do than play games with others' lives, manipulating others into sexual relationships only to then discard them or insult them. In the age of Jerry Springer, it's not too shocking a story, and the literary style, while elegant, is ponderous.
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue.
In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle …
This is essentially part six of the Three Musketeers trilogy, the third book of which is split into three. Reading it after the Three Musketeers, there was a lot missing from the back story. The Man in the Iron Mask plays on rumors of Louis XIV replacing his brother and locking him away as a young man. It's quite an astonishing story but lacks the literary punch of The Count of Monte Cristo or the playfulness of the Three Musketeers.
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue.
In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, …
