Alexia rated The pit and the pendulum and other stories: 3 stars
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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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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Jack London
Contains: The call of the wild -- White Fang -- Bâtard -- Moon-face -- Brown Wolf -- That spot -- …
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 Vulture Peak: 2 stars
Vulture Peak by John Burdett
Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. …
Alexia rated Democracy in America: 3 stars
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Penguin classics)
De La Démocratie en Amérique (French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the …
Alexia rated Trainspotting: roman: 2 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 Fahrenheit 451: 4 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, …
Alexia rated The skull mantra: 3 stars
Eliot Pattison: The skull mantra (2001, St. Martin's Paperbacks)
The skull mantra by Eliot Pattison (St. Martin's Minotaur mysteries)
A Chinese official is murdered in a slave camp in Tibet. One of the prisoners, a disgraced Chinese prosecutor, is …
Alexia rated Water touching stone: 2 stars
Alexia rated Bone Mountain: 1 star
Alexia rated The Hotel New Hampshire: 1 star
John Irving: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986, Black Swan)
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second …
Alexia rated The Flanders Panel: 3 stars
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Harvest book)
When Julia is cleaning a 15th century Flemish painting, in a corner she finds the words: "Who killed the knight?" …
