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5 stars
Playfully cerebral, not too much work. A nice bedtime / morning read.
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counterclockwise rated The Color Purple: 5 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Celie, arm, zwart en geminacht, wordt uitgehuwelijkt aan een oudere man die haar misbruikt. Het leven is niet gemakkelijk voor …
counterclockwise rated The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland: 3 stars
counterclockwise rated Helgoland: 5 stars
Helgoland by Erica Segre, Simon Carnell, Carlo Rovelli
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in …
counterclockwise rated When We Cease to Understand the World: 4 stars
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.
Albert Einstein …
counterclockwise rated A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees: 4 stars
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Kenko Yoshida
Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century …
counterclockwise rated Ninth Street women: 5 stars
Mary Gabriel: Ninth Street women (2018)
Ninth Street women by Mary Gabriel
"Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes …
counterclockwise rated The defense: 5 stars
The defense by Vladimir Nabokov
The Defense is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov after he had emigrated to Berlin. It was published in …
counterclockwise rated Breasts and Eggs: 3 stars
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, David Boyd, Sam Bett
On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the …
counterclockwise rated Stranger Albert Camus: 5 stars
Stranger Albert Camus by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera …
counterclockwise rated Hokusai: 5 stars
F. Scott Fitzgerald: GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald : ( the Original Uncensored, Unabridged Edition a F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel ) (2021, Lulu Press, Inc.)
GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald : ( the Original Uncensored, Unabridged Edition a F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life …
counterclockwise rated The Virgin Suicides: 5 stars
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides is a 1993 debut novel by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set …
counterclockwise rated Sylvia Plath's The bell jar: 5 stars
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar by Harold Bloom (Bloom's guides)
counterclockwise rated Women, Race & Class: 5 stars
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of …