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French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Alexia rated Tales of the City: 3 stars
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (duplicate)
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat …
Alexia rated The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: 3 stars
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Penguin Canada)
The first in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island …
Alexia rated Au bonheur des ogres: 3 stars
Au bonheur des ogres by Daniel Pennac
Côté famille, maman s'est tirée une fois de plus en m'abandonnant les mômes, et le Petit s'est mis à rêver …
Alexia rated Lunar Park: 1 star
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park is a mock memoir by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. It was released by Knopf in 2005. It …
Alexia rated En avant, route !: 3 stars
Alexia rated The Old Man and the Sea: 1 star
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo …
Alexia rated The human condition: 4 stars
The human condition by Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition, first published in 1958, is Hannah Arendt's account of how "human activities" should be and have been …
King Rat by James Clavell
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the …
Alexia rated Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited: 3 stars
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published …
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Cass R. Sunstein, Richard Thaler
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a book written by University of Chicago economist and Nobel Laureate …
Alexia rated Freakonomics: 3 stars
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What …
Alexia rated African History: 3 stars
Alexia rated Handmaid's Tale: 4 stars
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …
