A little life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015). This is a 800+ pages book and I have to admit that I skipped some pages, partially because frankly it’s overwritten and also because it is quite boring at some parts. But It is actually a good story. There are several characters in the book, and it seems […]
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Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell ( 1990). This the first of a long series of thriller/mystery novels where K. Scarpetta is the main character. However my favorite character in this novel is Sergeant Pete Marino. Marino is the typical hard core police investigator that pops up in your mind when you want to describe a Hollywood-type
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The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell (1994). I read this book almost entirely on the bus, during my weekly commute. I think this is the third book I read from P. Cornwell and it will probably be the last one. It is not that her books are bad, but I realized she uses the same
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016). I finished this book a few days ago but I’ve been so busy that I didn’t have the time to write a few lines about this fabulous book. This book is about life and death. It is about how to learn to enjoy life even when you
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Replay by Ken Grimwood (1986). I discovered this book thanks to a recommendation from someone online, and I think it is probably one of the best novels I’ve read this year. The book is about Jeff, a 43-year-old man who works in an office and is unhappily married. Suddenly, he dies and wakes up as
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Wild Swans by Jung Chang (1991). This book is like a detailed photograph of the recent history of China, and by reading it I gained some new insights and understanding of the Chinese people. The core of this book starts early in WW2 when a good part of China was still under the control of
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The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon. This is the sequel to “The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver.” The new book begins when serial killer Michael, while in prison, takes his own life and then time-travels ten years into the past to live his life again as a six-year-old version of himself. In
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Penpal by Dathan Auerbach. This the most disturbing book that has come to my hands in a while. My jaw dropped to the end of the second tale “Balloons”. An elementary school teacher asks the kids to use balloons to send letters to start a penpal correspondence. A kid starts receiving letters and photos of
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. Written in 1974 and it is about ‘quality’. Quality about anything: why something is or isn’t good? This is not really about ethics, but about perception.
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman. This is probably one of the best non-fiction books I’ve read. It is not only beautifully written and well-organized but it really teaches something. This book is about the evolutionary psychology of consciousness. The author explains with many examples how our physiology has evolved from
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