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Bookshelf

Please consider the environmental impact when purchasing a new book. I buy and read books on my Kindle e-reader. If e-book is not a choice, maybe you can borrow a paper version from your local library?

What does the stars mean? 

5 ★ – I would absolutely recommend this book. It was well written, interesting and thought-provoking. It is likely that I will read this book again. 

4 ★ – The book was well-written and interesting but it is unlikely that I will read it again.

3 ★ – I think it this book was either poorly-written yet still interesting {or} it was well-written but not at all interesting. 

2 ★ – It was… okay? I guess? It wasn’t a complete disaster but I would probably suggest to read something else.

1 ★ – I think the book was boring, blasé, terribly-written etc.

2020

tbc

2019

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Testaments

Margareth Atwood

Rating: 4 out of 5.
The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.
The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.
Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-Sabi and More

Erin Niimi Longhurst

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Forgotten Women: The Writers – Forgotten Women

Zing Tsjeng

(reading list)

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Valeria Luiselli

(currently reading)

Memoirs Of A Geisha

Arthur Golden

Rating: 5 out of 5.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Truman Capote

Rating: 4 out of 5.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Maggie Nelson

Rating: 4 out of 5.
Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 3 out of 5.
Flux

Orion Carloto

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Rating: 3 out of 5.
Silence: In the Age of Noise

Erling Kagge

Rating: 3 out of 5.
When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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