Rated The Alchemist 10/10
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Rated Carl's Doomsday Scenario 8/10
Wants to read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 8/10
Rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 8/10
Rated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 8/10
Rated Excavation 10/10
What Wendy Ortiz’s writing does is startle me. It makes me want to at once confess and hide. Like fellow Future Tense author Chloe Caldwell, her writing makes me feel vulnerable within its truth. It’s difficult to say that I <i>loved</i> this memoir, for it’s like loving the most difficult parts of oneself. Yet, <i>Excavation</i> is indeed one of the best memoirs I’ve seen. I read along knowing that her relationship with Jeff was wrong, but I squirmed over knowing how similarly I would’ve acted in her situation. Everything I’ve read from Ortiz makes me want more, to keep poking at those wounds, to see how we both keep on living. If one must use that desire as a measure of a book’s success, then let it be so.<br><br>(My full review can be found at <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2014/07/book-review-excavation-by-wendy-c-ortiz/">Persephone Magazine</a>.)
Rated The First Amendment 6/10
Wants to read 1Q84 Haruki Murakami Speak
Rated The Body: A Guide for Occupants 8/10
Fantastic story telling of the human body as told by Bryson. Given we all occupy one it’s worth the read.
Wants to read Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Wants to read A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Wants to read Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
Rated Poison for Breakfast 6/10