Lauren Cono, 129 TESS Title: Bangkok Eight Author: John Burdett Published: 2003 It is a paradoxically slow and chaotic storyline that encapsulates Thai culture quite well. At the same time, it is […]
Book Reviews with Lauren: Bangkok Eight
Book Reviews with Lauren: The Inheritance Cycle
Lauren Cono, 129 TESS Title: The Inheritance Cycle: Books #1-4 Author: Christopher Paolini Published: 2002-2011 Background on my current state of mind: When I applied for English books for my school’s library, […]
Book Reviews with Lauren: Bel Canto
Lauren Cono, 129 TESS Title: Bel Canto Author: Ann Patchett Published: 2001 Historical Context and Synopsis: This story was inspired by an incident in Lima, Peru during the late 90s when a […]
Book Reviews with Lauren: Siddhartha
Lauren Cono, 129 TCCS Title: Siddhartha Author: Herman Hesse Published: Germany, 1922 Synopsis: “Based on the early life of Buddha, this novel is about the search for self-realization by a young Brahman, […]
[Book Review] The Poisonwood Bible
Yousif Al-Amin, 129 TCCS Title: The Poisonwood Bible Author: Barbara Kingsolver Published: Harper (1998) Synopsis: In 1959, an overzealous Baptist minister named Nathan Price decides to move his wife and four daughters to a desolate, isolated […]
[Book Review] Sit and Cry: Two Years in the Land of Smiles
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Title: Sit and Cry: Two Years in the Land of Smiles Author: Burgess Needle, RPCV Thailand, 1967-69 Published: Wren Song Press (2017) Synopsis: Somewhere in Buriram, Thailand, there are people […]
[Book Review] On Tyranny
William Blackford, 128 YinD On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder was published early 2017, in part a response to the outcome of the 2016 elections in the […]
[Book Review] The Snow Leopard
Michael “Beaux” Mudd, 128 TCCS The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen Several years ago, I was searching for books in the local library where I was living. While searching I came across […]
[Book Review] Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Mante Petersen, 128 YinD Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, by Daniel Quinn As we have been conditioned to consume varying amounts of information at an exponential rate, fatigue sets […]
[Book Review] The Geography of Bliss
Carly Allard, 129 YinD Title: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World Author: Eric Weiner Published: Twelve (2008) Synopsis: Former NPR correspondent and self-proclaimed “grump” Eric Weiner takes readers […]
[Book Review] First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
Author Eve Brown uses her creatively titled memoir to tell a tale of exploration, determination, and love. And not just love of the “Peace Corps Poster Boy” she falls in love with and (spoiler alert) marries, but love of foreign places and unfamiliar lifestyles.
The Demon in the Freezer
Erin Capina, 127 YinD In 1966, the world declared war on smallpox, a virus that stalked humanity for thousands of years, and in the years that followed aggressive surveillance, containment and vaccination […]
Can you hear the sound of the Wind-up Bird?
Carlos Bean, 127 YinD Review of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Do you like normalcy? Do you like your regular life, living day after day content in your existence? So did Toru Okada, […]
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Allie Holtzer, 127 How is your relationship with death? Is death something you’re comfortable with, something you think about with ease? Or are you scared of death? Is death something you’ve faced […]
The Three-Body Problem Universe
Carlos Bean, 127 This review is of the first two books in a trilogy. The first being The Three Body Problem and the second being The Dark Forest. I refer to the […]
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