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‘The Trial’ – Laura Bates

20 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm

A solid read, which will serve its purpose if it gets just one person to think about the way they treat others. Once again, Laura Bates brings her social commentary to a story that you find yourself drawn into. I don’t usually comment on covers, but...

‘Bad Girls Never Say Die’ – Jennifer Mathieu

20 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm

Bad Girls Never Say Die is a book being touted as a feminist reworking of The Outsiders. While it focuses on a group of female characters, the book remains set in the 1960s and – for me – this led to the whole thing having a rather dated premise. If...

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune [⭐⭐⭐]

20 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment trumanrose

The House in the Cerulean Sea is about a Case Worker named Linus Baker, assigned to an orphanage with magical children classified as extremely dangerous. There, he must decide whether the orphanage was well-taken care of (according to some rules and...

For Classic Literature Geeks Only: The Scarlet Letter

24 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment redheadblues

Recommends it for: Marquis DeSade companions only This book can only be read by a very calm, patientand sadistic person. The dialogue isn't exactly the easiest to follow (as is for most books from the freaking 19th certury!) Now you'll ask why I'm...

Book Review: Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan, Amazon Video Premiere November

18 Sep 2021 2 minute read 1 comment b_eleven

Book Review: Eye of the World First Book of The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan Amazon Video Premiere Scheduled for November 2021   Now is the time to read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan if you have been putting it off as I have. I f...

Are You A Crypto Trader?

5 Sep 2021 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

This post serves as a book review for "The Crypto Trader" by Glen Goodman. I scored A in Math my entire life but examining trends and forecasting breakout points in price charts has got to be my idea of a worst nightmare rather than a preferred way o...

Book Review: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

21 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments b_eleven

Book Review: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson Genre: Fantasy/Fiction Released  in 2009 “My life to yours. My Breath become yours.” That is how characters in Warbreaker can transfer their Biochroma or breath to another being. It is your breath that al...

The Winklevoss Twins & Gemini

8 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

This is my book review on "Virtual Billions" written by Eric Geissinger.    Always fascinating when learning occurs in bits and pieces before it splurts as the cogs in my mind work overdrive to put two and two together. I vaguely heard of the Winklev...

1984 [Part 1] - Oceania

4 Aug 2021 8 minute read 0 comments PiiJr36

"to mark the paper was a decisive act" (p. 7)   We view this world through the mind of Winston Smith and almost immediately we're presented with a depressive outlook where “there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastere...

If You Knows Nuts About Ethereum, Read This Book

24 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

This book review on "The Infinite Machine: : How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum" first appeared on my IG handle (@diaperfinancingfund). I only became interested in crypto after Hodlnaut - a Singapore crypto lend...