Greenlights (2020) by Matthew McConaughey Genre: Memoir Pages: 304 Summary: There has always been something so cool about Matthew McConaughey. It is in the way he talks and presents himself in interviews, it’s an aurora about him that I have always found attractive – a persona of confidence that never seems forced. In his memoir,…
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham (2019) – Nonfiction Rating: 4.5/5 The disaster at Chernobyl is a historical event that I have always been obsessed with. It fascinates me. The aftermath has been widely documented and the deserted city of Pripyat that was built around the…
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…
Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen – Fiction Rating: 4/5 Northanger Abbey is my least favorite Austen novel. It only receives this distinction because it is the book I have read the least. Northager Abbey was the first completed novel by Austen but published posthumously along with Persuasion. Keeping that idea in mind, it makes…
The Warmth of Other Suns – The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) by Isabel Wilkerson – Nonfiction Rating: 5/5 An epic story. “Epic” is the best word to describe this 500-plus page book. It is a book that chronicles almost a century of time in American history and an event that is probably…
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