War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020) by Margaret MacMillan – Nonfiction Rating: 4/5 One of my favorite college classes was a class on WWII. Prior to college, my history classes in high school and middle school consisted of cursory glances over this time period. It was always very formulaic : a general idea of what…
A Deadly Education (2020) by Naomi Novik – Fiction Rating: 3.5/5 Continuing my traverse through the fantasy genre, I picked up A Deadly Education. Coming in at a doable 320 pages, the novel moves quickly and efficiently. I enjoyed it, but at times I had to put in a lot of effort to move through…
Transcendent Kingdom (2020) by Yaa Gyasi – Fiction Rating: 5/5 I don’t know if there is a word for it – but Transcendent Kingdom is one of those books where nothing happens. There isn’t necessarily a plot or a villain or something to overcome. But it is probably the most beautiful book I have read…
Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen – Nonfiction (2012) Rating: 4.5/5 We are in information overload. For the past six months since the pandemic started, the world has turned upside down. Or so it seems for a lot of us. Schedules changed, businesses closed, jobs were lost. But the…
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