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All the Light We Cannot See
written by Anthony Doerr rated 10 / 10 Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr A riveting and insightful novel, descriptive in the most poetic ways. Undoubtedly the best historical fiction I have and will have read this year. Despite…
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The Killer Angels
Author | Michael Shaara Rating | 10 Recently, I’ve been reviewing many books on the Second World War. Now we’re moving back to the 1860s, to the American Civil War. Regarding this war, and the Battle of Gettysburg specifically, a novel you can’t miss is The Killer Angels. Never before has there been a historical…
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What is the Purpose of the Lottery?
As humans, we don’t like change. As practices and routines settle down deep into our bones, we become so used to it that we lose focus as to why we began to do such things in the first place, and yet we still continue. To illustrate the dangers of this senseless following of tradition, Shirley…