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Vanessa rated Nit fidel i virtuosa: 4 stars
Nit fidel i virtuosa by Louise Glück
Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major …
Vanessa rated Alaana's Way: Shadows (Volume 3): 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Summer Book: 5 stars
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (New York Review Books classics)
Translated from Swedish.
Vanessa rated Last child in the woods: 4 stars
Last child in the woods by Richard Louv
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder is a 2005 book by author Richard Louv that …
Vanessa rated Alaana's Way: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Alaana's Way:The Calling (Volume 1): 4 stars
Vanessa rated We Should All Be Feminists: 3 stars
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of …
Vanessa rated In Shadows: 4 stars
Vanessa rated When Breath Becomes Air: 5 stars
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi …
Vanessa rated A Little Life: 2 stars
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …
Vanessa rated Fortune Smiles: 4 stars
Vanessa rated I'm Thinking of Ending Things: 3 stars
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
Jake …
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, …