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Rated La guerra 8/10

Wants to read The Power of Mindful Learning

Finished reading Deep Freewriting: How to Masterfully Navigate the Creative Flow

Rated Tripwire 4/10

Mah, not great. The book is inconsistent, stretched beyond its natural length by a lot of unnecessary digressions. But the fatal flaw, for me, is that Reacher just dawdles around the USA (with some tight timescales) for 400 pages with no sense of urgency. And the villain is a cartoonish guy with a damn hook, and (spoiler) Reacher blocks a bullet because his pecs are so thick... oh come on. Beyond parody.

Wants to read A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Wants to read The hierarchy of heaven and earth : a new diagram of man in the universe

Finished reading Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Wants to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Finished reading Da animali a dèi: Breve storia dell'umanità

Rated This Close 10/10

Not many short story collections are entirely wonderful. One or two stories, while not necessarily UNenjoyable, usually feel like filler. And yet, Jessica Francis Kane's new collection is quite near perfect. It left me wishing for one more story, which likely means that the length of the book is exactly right. Twelve stories, some related and some standalone, navigate the yearning for connection and the complex interior lives that we all have. <br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-close-stories-by-jessica-francis.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Rated The Many Daughters of Afong Moy 3/10

<div>Too many similes, too many words lifted from other people. The overall concept is interesting and understandable, but I didn't care for the the execution. In short, not for me.</div>

Finished reading How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment

Wants to read The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

Rated The No-Prep Gamemaster: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Random Tables 7/10

Rated Tempo. Il sogno di uccidere Chrónos 6/10

Rated Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro 8/10

Wants to read A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes

Wants to read A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

Rated Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy 10/10

Finished reading Declassified

Rated Walden by Henry David Thoreau 8/10

Finished reading Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

Wants to read Wolf Hall by Mantel, Hilary on 04/03/2010 1st (first) Picador Editio edition

Rated The Venus Throw 6/10

Wants to read Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life