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Rated Wintertide 8/10

Wants to read Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

Wants to read Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Wants to read How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Rated The Hollow Places 8/10

Rated Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 8/10

Wants to read The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Wants to read The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education

Rated Cop Hater 8/10

Wants to read Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Wants to read Once An Eagle: A Classic Novel of Leadership and Valor in Military History

Finished reading Saevus Corax Gets Away with Murder

Wants to read The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

Wants to read To Play the Fool

Wants to read Confessions of a Public Speaker

Wants to read The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Rated The Final Days 10/10

Rated What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 10/10

Wants to read On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

Rated Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?: Stories 10/10

Rated The Name of the Wind 8/10

Wants to read From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Wants to read A Place for Us

Rated Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite 8/10

A very brave and well-done piece of journalism; a Korean-American woman goes semi-undercover as an English teacher in an elite North Korean school. rare, compellingly-drawn glimpse into the deeply strange parallel universe of North Korea.

Rated Between the World and Me 8/10

Beautiful and important. A letter from the author to his teenage son about growing up black in America, and the very real risk of bodily harm that comes with it. A sharp, lyrical mixture of autobiography, history, and sociology, centered around the memory of a friend who died from police violence. Powerfully makes the case of America's racial divide not in abstract moral terms but viscerally, physically, in terms of injuries, rapes and death, in terms of exploited labor and stolen wealth and enforced poverty.