Seven Pillars of Wisdom

author: T.E. Lawrence name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 1926 rating: 4 read at: 2018/06/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: The movie is one of my all time favourites, the man an intriguing character of a tragic period of history. I have always had...

Too Soon to Say Goodbye

author: Art Buchwald name: Kim average rating: 4.05 book published: 2006 rating: 2 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: My dad loved Art Buchwald, and I was once a big fan, too – had kind of forgotten about him for a few decades when I...

Lincoln in the Bardo

author: George Saunders name: Kim average rating: 3.76 book published: 2017 rating: 1 read at: 2018/01/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: It’s won prizes, so it’s one of those books that one is “supposed” to love. Well I didn’t,...

The Pirates

author: Matthew West name: Kim average rating: 3.51 book published: 2015 rating: 4 read at: 2018/07/14 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves:...

Sound of a Murder: A Scandinavian Crime Thriller (Marius Tokle)

author: Pål Undall name: Kim average rating: 4.00 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2018/07/14 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: Needless to say – five stars from me – I translated it!Want to get a bit of background about the book, go to...

The Hand that Signed the Paper

author: Helen Dale name: Kim average rating: 3.65 book published: 1994 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2018/01/25 shelves:...
Churchill and Orwell – The Fight for Freedom

Churchill and Orwell – The Fight for Freedom

At first glance they may seem like an odd couple, but their influence on the seminal events and the thinking of the 20th century are equally profound. Winston Churchill defined and led the resistance against the tyranny of Adolf Hitler, George Orwell understood and explained the nature of totalitarian regimes. They were both men who were prepared to change themselves in order to change the world.

Saving Virginia: A novel

author: Melinda Edwards name: Kim average rating: 4.00 book published: 2014 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2018/01/23 shelves: review: Well written and surprisingly entertaining considering it contains no murders, no wars, no unsolved mysteries, not even a tiny little...

The Signature of All Things

author: Elizabeth Gilbert name: Kim average rating: 3.84 book published: 2013 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2018/01/23 shelves: review: Profoundly movingThis is the first (fiction) book of Elizabeth Gilbert that I have read, and it may well be the last. I won’t...

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

author: Rutger Bregman name: Kim average rating: 4.21 book published: 2014 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2018/01/23 shelves: review: This is not just about universal income, it is a book that challenges almost every antiquated notion about what our affluence is built...

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