Crux
By Gabriel Tallent
I'm calling it: This is book of the year. I could write a dissertation on this book, but suffice to say for now that Tallent strikes again. He's so...
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By Gabriel Tallent
I'm calling it: This is book of the year. I could write a dissertation on this book, but suffice to say for now that Tallent strikes again. He's so...
By Kaitlin Tremblay
This one is tough, some really good reflections on the game being written about, but also the author posits that her opinion and interpretation are...
By Christopher Brown
The interpretation of urban design as "closed access," efficiently shunting people between their centers of consumption (i.e., their home) to centers...
By Candace Fleming
So far, I love this book but can only read about 25 pages at a time before I get so upset. Like Fleming wrote, he was a racist anti-racist. So there...
By Catriona Ward
It was SO GOOD until you hit the back third. Too many twists and layers to be able to follow it all.
By Herman Wouk
Nothing additional to add over the comments in The Winds of War. This was an exceptional followup.