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by Neil deGrasse Tyson & with Gregory Mone Read expert recommendations “Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History…We felt this book was just really nicely written. In the first sentence he writes, ‘in the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, th...
It ended up being a very well written book about Lowe’s rise to fame, his most recent projects (circa 2015) but mostly about his family and the relationship that he has with his two sons, the oldest of which left for college in the middle of his writing this. I enjoyed this book a...
Femina is a really interesting book about medieval women and history by Oxford-based historian Janina Ramirez. The title is revealing in itself: ‘FEMINA’ was what Ramirez found scribbled in library catalogues alongside texts known to be written by a woman. It's likely they were considered less...
Written over a decade after Simenon left the U.S.,The Man on the Bench in the Barntakes the theme of guilt by inertia ofBelleand refines it down to a cold existential minimalism. Two couples get stuck in a blizzard near one of their houses. One of the men gets separated from the ot...
Jeffrey Sokolow writes to say, “I have just finished reading BOUND FOR CANAAN: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND THE WAR FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA by Fergus M. Bordewich (New York, NY: Harper Collins; 2005), a well-written and inspirational narrative history of the largest interracial movement of...
The City We Becameby N.K. Jemison (for enjoyment) Kathmanduby Thomas Bell (for relaxation) Up Next Someday / On Pause / Abandoned Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Educated by Tara Westover Team Human by Douglas … Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon Brando ...
3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman My rating: 5 of 5 stars DC Site If you love a good story, you really can’t go wrong with Gaiman. This volume consists of four standalone pieces of short fiction set in the Sandman universe. “Calliope,” like Greek Mythology, envisions an anthropo...
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I finished reading Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel and I loved it, it was such a beautifully written novel and one that will stay with me. After that I devoured The Last Passenger by Will Dean in one sitting, this was a wild ride of a novel that kept me hooked all the way through. ...