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Reading Dune

Rated Project Hail Mary 6/10

Rated Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution 10/10

Wants to read Adulthood Is a Myth

Rated Tai-Pan 8/10

Wants to read Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22

Rated NANO Fiction Volume 5, Number 2 8/10

Rated The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process 7/10

Wants to read The Traveler

Rated Payasos en la lavadora: Novela (Colección Fábula) (Spanish Edition) 5/10

Rated The Institute 10/10

Added La charge raciale to Read Books

Added The Dispossessed to Read Books

Reading Ufred: Russland fra innsiden

Rated Let the Great World Spin 10/10

This book is well worth the time, cover price, and its National Book Award. Circling around Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers, McCann weaves together the fragile connections between eleven New Yorkers. It is both a story of its time and a thoughtful 9/11 allegory in which grief, passion, and observance are at the root of every character.<br><br>I read a lot of great books this year, but only a few did I know I would love from the first page, more than one set in New York City. Maybe at times sulking naysayers like to disparage the “New York Novel,” claiming that it’s all been done before, but I don’t know how anyone could reasonably believe that. In the United States’ most populous city, how could you possibly think that every story has been told? When the world is filled with short story collections depicting the most microscopic of events in two-bar towns, how is the expanse of five boroughs and 8.4 million people “overrated?” How is it any less real?<br><br>If anything, Let The Great World Spin is an antidote to that kind of contrary thinking. Whether or not we know it consciously, we are all connected. We share the same air — spouses, subway riders, café frequenters, best friends, and drunks — and somewhere there is a common thread. For as big as the world is, sometimes it doesn’t take much bring us together.<br><br>(Full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/12/let-great-world-spin-by-colum-mccann.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Rated Doctor Who: The Girl Who Never Was 8/10

This was a pretty good send off for Charlie, but it also sort of felt like this story could have been written without cybermen. Everything could have revolved around some other, less used outside force.

Rated Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost 8/10

<div>A good, spooky gothic horror. If you liked Crimson Peak, you'll probably like this.</div>

Rated Doctor Who: An Ordinary Life 8/10

Wants to read The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Wants to read Close to Death

Reading Circe

Wants to read A Line to Kill

Finished reading The Word is Murder

Rated Bloodchild and Other Stories 8/10

Wants to read The Twist of a Knife