Category: Book Reviews
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Year Of The Monkey
Title: Year of The Monkey Author: Patti Smith Rating: ★★★★1/2 Review: There’s a fine line trodden with stream-of-consciousness-type writing. It can seem indulgent, disjointed, illogical. Patti Smith falls the right side of the paradigm with this excellent set of memoirs and metaphors from the titular lunar year. It centres around a trip to a small…
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What You Are Looking For Is In The Library
Title: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library Author: Michiko Aoyama (translated by Alison Watts) Rating: ★★★★★ Review: A beautiful, thought-provoking book, full of inspirational ideas and concepts. The premise of a librarian handing out life advice and tips for self-improvement, but in a round-about kind of way is a wonderful one. The…
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White Moss
Title: White Moss Author: Anna Nerkagi (translated by Irina Sadovina) Rating: ★★★★★ Review: I mean, just wow! This has dethroned A Prayer For Owen Meaney as my favourite book of all time. There is so much to say here. The book describes the lives of the Nenets, nomadic natives of Siberia, or at least a…
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