Time Shelter

author: Georgi Gospodinov name: Kim average rating: 3.51 book published: 2020 rating: 3 read at: 2024/05/29 date added: 2024/05/29 shelves: review: A very different kind of bookWritten as a series of vignettes that sometimes hangs together, sometimes not. The...

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

author: Antony Beevor name: Kim average rating: 4.12 book published: 2022 rating: 4 read at: 2024/04/04 date added: 2024/04/04 shelves: review: The forgotten war that rendered the revolution a mythAnthony Beevor at his best, the detail he gets across is astonishing,...

High Heels and Low Blows

author: Jill Valentine name: Kim average rating: 4.33 book published: rating: 3 read at: 2024/03/20 date added: 2024/03/20 shelves: review: A story rarely told from an insightful authorA glowing review in the Financial Review made me buy it, as there are not many...

The Thinnai

author: Ari Gautier name: Kim average rating: 4.11 book published: rating: 3 read at: 2024/02/25 date added: 2024/02/25 shelves: review: Lovely writing, confusing storyTempted by the many glowing reviews, I set out on what was a strange reading journey. Some beautiful...

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

author: Angela Saini name: Kim average rating: 4.11 book published: 2023 rating: 5 read at: 2024/02/21 date added: 2024/02/21 shelves: review: The long and convoluted history of the patriarchyMany interesting insights into different cultures and the history of why and...

The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

author: Upton Sinclair name: Kim average rating: 5.00 book published: 1962 rating: 5 read at: 2024/02/09 date added: 2024/02/09 shelves: review: Fascinating insights into an extraordinary manI generally prefer biographies to autobiographies, the latter risk being self...

The Jungle

author: Upton Sinclair name: Kim average rating: 3.87 book published: 1905 rating: 5 read at: 2024/01/12 date added: 2024/01/12 shelves: review: A classic still as relevant today as it was in 1906The conditions of the meat works are no doubt better, the workers there...

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