Tag: book
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BR188) “A Room with a View” Book Review
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. 2/5 rating. 224 pages. Book #24 of 2021. Read March 21, 2021. I couldn’t stand the characters in this book, though the last third or so of the book was just enough of a sappy happy ending to save it from being a 1. I realize that…
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BR143) “The Great Gatsby” Book Review
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 4/5 rating. 189 pages. Book #68 of 2020. Read September 29, 2020. This classic book of excess, unrequited love, and loss is really in two parts: the first being very slow, boring, and all about the over-the-top extravagance surrounding the narrator, and the second half showing why this…
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BR138) “Dream Work” Book Review
Dream Work by Mary Oliver. 3/5 rating. 98 pages. Book #63 of 2020. Read September 1, 2020. This is another one of Mary’s books of nature poetry. This book was fine, but I’ve read other books by Mary that really spoke to me; this one didn’t really do that as much. A few of the…
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BR71) Stumbling on Happiness Book Review
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. 4/5 rating. Book #146 of 2019. Read December 25, 2019. This was a very interesting, light-hearted, yet informative, psychology book. Daniel lays out many of the ways that our brains are really pretty bad at remembering, explaining our current feelings, and properly imagining both the positive and negative aspects…
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BR70) Eiger Dreams Book Review
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer. 4/5 rating. Book #145 of 2019. Read December 23, 2019. This was an interesting collection of some of Jon’s writings for different outdoor magazines. I imagine that my immense enjoyment of the book has to do with having a month before I go climb Kilimanjaro,…
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BR69) The Once and Future Liberal
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla. 5/5 rating. Book #144 of 2019. Read December 18, 2019. Wow, I absolutely loved this book! Mark talks about what Liberalism and the left once stood for: especially in Roosevelt’s time. He then illustrates how much this has changed and what needs to be…
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BR68) The Mysterious Affair at Styles Book Review
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. 4/5 rating. Book #143 of 2019. Read December 17, 2019. An Agatha Christie classic! This story follows the death of poor Mrs. Inglethorpe. In a beautiful house in England, everyone is a suspect, and no one can be trusted. Through countless twists and turns filled with various…
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BR67) Give and Take Book Review
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant. 4/5 rating. Book #142 of 2019. Read December 16, 2019. This is a lovely book about our reciprocity styles and the way that giving can help you succeed. Adam does a great job of going through many people and stories that illustrate the…
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BR66) The End of Oil Book Review
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts. 4/5 rating. Book #141 of 2019. Read December 15, 2019. I thought this was an interesting book and I learned a lot about oil and our current energy infrastructure. Paul does a good job working through info about oil, coal,…
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BR65) The End of Nature Book Review
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben. 2/5 rating. Book #140 of 2019. Read December 9, 2019. This book is a classic about global warming. As such, I wanted soooo bad to like it, but just couldn’t get into it. This book has some interesting ideas and was certainly powerful as one of the first…