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What have I been reading? 2011 Edition!
Christmas brought me a bounty of reading material; much to my father’s chagrin. My Christmas presents were all fiction as well, as I have been trying to beat down my non-fiction bias lately. Here’s some of the books I’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Classics, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction, Penguin
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A Room Of One’s Own
Author: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1928 Pages: 112 I bought ‘A Room Of One’s Own’ for three reasons. Firstly, it was $10; who can say no to such prices? Secondly, Virginia Woolf possibly has one of the most … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥ - 4/5, Essays, Non-Fiction
Tagged Anne Bronte, Book Reviews, books, Charlotte Bronte, Classics, England, Essays, Feminism, Feminist, Fiction, George Eliot, Jane Austen, John Milton, Literature, men, Non-Fiction, Penguin, Poverty, reviews, sex, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, women
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The Origin of Species
Author: Charles Darwin Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1869 Pages: 459 I have finally finished ‘The Origin of Species’, a book that is still so controversial that a movie about Darwin’s life couldn’t even find distribution in the United States. It took me … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥½ - 3½/5, Non-Fiction, Science
Tagged animals, Biology, Book Reviews, books, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Classics, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Natural Selection, nature, Non-Fiction, Penguin, Pidgeons, religion, reviews, Science, sex
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
The Story of My Experiments With Truth Author: M.K Gandhi Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1927-1929 Pages: 454 Gandhi succeeded in uniting India in a national movement and did as much in the first half of the twentieth century as any other … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥ - 3/5, Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Politics
Tagged Ahimsa, autobiography, Biography, Book Reviews, books, Christianity, civil disobediance, civil rights, Classics, Colonialism, England, Experiments, Gandhi, Hinduism, History, Humanity, India, Islam, Non-Fiction, non-violence, Penguin, Politics, Racism, religion, reviews, Satyagraha, Truth, Vegan, Veganism, Vegetarian
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Speak, Memory
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Publisher: Penguin Date Published: Originally published under the title ‘Conclusive Evidence’ in America and ‘Speak, Memory’ in England in 1951. This Penguin addition with additional ‘Chapter 16’ was published 2000. Pages: 272 An Autobiography Revisited ‘Speak, memory’ said Vladimir … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥ - 4/5, Biography, Non-Fiction
Tagged America, art, autobiography, Berlin, Biography, Bolshevists, Book Reviews, books, Cambridge, Classics, Conclusive Evidence, culture, family, France, Germany, History, Hitler, Life, Lolita, love, memory, modern, Non-Fiction, nostalgia, Paris, Penguin, reviews, Revolution, Russia, Soviet Era, Vladimir Nabokov, War
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The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Authors: Malcolm X and Alex Haley Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1965 Pages: 512 Malcolm X’s blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥½ - 4½/5, Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Politics
Tagged African American, Alex Haley, America, Biography, Black, Book Reviews, books, Christianity, civil rights, death, Islam, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nation of Islam, Negro, Non-Fiction, Penguin, Politics, prison, Racism, religion, reviews, White
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Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Author: Patrick Suskind Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1985 Pages: 263 Patrick Suskind’s Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste … Continue reading
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
Author: William S Burroughs Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1969 Pages: 192 In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥ - 2/5, Classics, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
Tagged America, Book Reviews, books, Classics, Contemporary, culture, death, drugs, Fiction, fucking, gay, Homosexuality, Humanity, lust, magic, modern, Murder, Penguin, reviews, sex, sexuality, straight, The Wild Boys, Violence, War, William S Burroughs
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The Well of Echoes Quartet
Author: Ian Irvine Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 2001-2004 Pages: Total of 2,798 over four books Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker, is using a new crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her talent for geomancy, … Continue reading
Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1955 Pages: 336 ‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.’ Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥½ - 3½/5, Classics, Fiction
Tagged abuse, America, Book Reviews, books, childhood, children, Classics, culture, England, family, Fiction, fucking, Humbert, incest, Innocence, Life, Lolita, love, lust, men, modern, nymphet, paedophile, paedophilia, Penguin, rape, reviews, sex, sexual abuse, sexuality, Vladimir Nabokov
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