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2025
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One
At the Edge of Empire
By Daniel KrausI think this is tailor made for a movie. (As a book, it dragged on for a while.) However, the narrator's voice was unique and engaging, even if the details were quite gory and grotesque.
The intended takeaway seems to be that you can't overcome your nature, no matter how many shots you get. The anti-hero of the story just consistently let down or abandoned people who helped him and tended to cater to those who were toxic. Bad habits die hard (or never die at all...).
There is a Book 2, but I don't know if I have the stamina to take it on.
*Discovered this in a Little Library in my neighborhood. :)
Globaloney 2.0
The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization
By Michael VesethRequired reading but still would've read anyways.
On Tyranny Graphic Edition
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy SnyderThis is my review
Demon Copperhead
By Barbara KingsolverSo good
The Secret of the Indian
By Lynne Reid Banks
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
By Michael Pollantesting fiction/nonfiction designation. it worked
2023
The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara KingsolverI've read this. Why is the stat not updating on my list?
2012
Me Talk Pretty One Day
By David SedarisI still snort when I think of some of the stories in this book...especially now that I've also lived in a French-speaking country.