I must confess to being uncertain about how exactly to review this book.
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Tag: 2 stars
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
This book includes the intertwined stories of two men who left and then returned to their home in the valley of the Nile after an education and various adventures in England, as told by an unnamed narrator.
Continue readingEugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
I don’t even remember why this one made it on my to-read list at this point, other than it’s a big title in classic literature and everyone is supposed to read in order to be a worthwhile citizen… or something.
Continue readingThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
I have to be honest here; I could barely finish the book.
Continue readingThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Alas, I struggled.
Continue readingThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
I think based on my experiences with the genre so far, it’s safe to say that early-20th century crime fiction is just not my thing.
Continue readingTristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Reading this one was a challenge; one I’m glad I tried, but even more glad that I’m finished with.
Continue readingThe Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
To be quite honest, I would not recommend this book to most readers. It’s probably worth a read if you’re a hard-core fantasy genre fan! But I certainly wouldn’t recommend this particular audiobook version to any reader.
Continue readingFoundation by Isaac Asimov
I put this on my to-read list because it is supposed to be one the top classic sci-fi stories or all time; it’s been described as an epic space opera with a focus on compelling, universal themes.
Continue readingThe Next Species by Michael Tennesen
This is a decent pop-sci introduction to modern hypotheses regarding mass extinction events and evolutionary mechanisms, with a bit of “humans are probably going to accidentally suicide as a species” thrown in for funsies.
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