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rickwysocki rated Four Thousand Weeks: 4 stars
Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks (2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
rickwysocki rated Mass made simple: 3 stars
rickwysocki rated Come closer: 4 stars
Come closer by Sara Gran
Astonishly addictive, genuinely frightening
Amanda loves her life, her converted loft apartment and her job as an architect. On the …
rickwysocki rated The Vegetarian: 5 stars
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Han Kang
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is …
rickwysocki rated I'll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky: 5 stars
rickwysocki rated Rip It Up and Start Again: 3 stars
Stephen King: Stories That Thrill, and a Novel That Chills...from Stephen King : Four Past Midnight/Needful Things by Stephen King
Contains:
- [Four Past Midnight][1]
- [Needful Things][2]
[1]: openlibrary.org/works/OL81606W [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL81607W/Needful_Things
rickwysocki rated The Geneaology of Morals: 4 stars
The Geneaology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last two centuries, deals with master/slave morality …
rickwysocki rated The analects (Lun yü): 5 stars
The analects (Lun yü) by Confucius (Penguin classics)
rickwysocki rated My Heart Is a Chainsaw: 2 stars
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants …
rickwysocki rated Cultish: 4 stars
Cultish by Amanda Montell
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and …
rickwysocki rated Dubliners James Joyce 1914: 5 stars
Dubliners James Joyce 1914 by Richard Ellmann
Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own …
rickwysocki rated Season of migration to the North: 5 stars
rickwysocki rated The Hound of the Baskervilles: 2 stars
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (2001, Devon Books)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
In this classic mystery set in 19th-century England, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are faced with discovering the truth behind …