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32% complete! ks has read 16 of 50 books.
The bezzle: The days, months or years that elapse between the commission of the crime and it's discovery. This is the period when the embezzler has his gain and the man who has been embezzled feels no loss. There is a net increase in psychic wealth :-)
— The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow (Page 73)
....attributed to John Kenneth Galbraith.
Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence …
A series of essays, some really short, the longest only a few pages long, that seemed all over the map, but she still brought it all together very well.
This book won the Giller prize, and whilst it gave a great insight into the lives of these porters and the vast gap in wealth between them and the people riding the train, I never got hooked.
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of …
The writing in this book is beautiful, but I struggled to keep up with the characters and the generation changes, so I'm thinking it's my fault more than the author's.
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
A team of astronauts in …
Short book, but very thoughtful and actually makes you feel like you're in orbit with the crew on the space station. Every day, they're amazed to look back on our little blue dot in the universe. The notion of having 8 ? sunrises and sunsets per day while they orbit I found fascinating.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from …
Gilda is a depressed, hypochondriac, atheist lesbian who gets a job as a secretary in a Catholic church. This is pretty dark subject matter but there are some very funny scenes when Gilda is at mass and trying to figure out the lines..... "The jig is up!!". Had no idea what this was going to be about, but I really enjoyed it.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated …
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Good version and deviation from the original story. Came to this book after reading reading The Time of the child, which I enjoyed much more, so I may be being hard on it by only giving it four stars.
There is a long series of books featuring Dave Robichaux and Clete Purcel set in and around New Orleans. Kind of hard boiled vets who follow their own code, which is usually honest but not quite within the law. Didn't enjoy this as much as some earlier ones - I think I'm done with this series.
Like the setting of these books in Louisiana
I LOVED this book. Williams is such a beautiful writer who makes me laugh at …
Best book I've read in a long time. Lots of fantastic sentences which are funny, descriptive and very evocative of Ireland in the sixties.
I LOVED this book. Williams is such a beautiful writer who makes me laugh at his wonderful turns of phrase. …
