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sjchristopher

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Madeline Miller: Circe (Hardcover, 2018, Little, Brown and Company) 4 stars

The daring, dazzling, and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song …

Review of 'Circe' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I forgot how much I love reading good fiction. Many other folks said the pacing was slow, and while I agree to some extent, I think Miller used the pacing to reflect on immortality and the true length of time for one who is immortal. 

Gorgeous storytelling!

Richard Wagamese: Indian horse (2018) 4 stars

Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the …

Review of 'Indian horse' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Searing indictment of the Canadian residential school system. Previously read for Canadian Politics at Ohio State.

James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library) (Hardcover, 1995, Modern Library) 5 stars

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the …

Review of 'Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)' on 'Storygraph'

No rating

Surprisingly can't read 4 books at once ! I'll come back to this when I finish everything else I'm working through :))

In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed …

Review of 'Christianity and the new spirit of capitalism' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Absolutely brilliant! I loved this so much :')

Review of 'Suddenly last summer' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

"We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"

Brilliant. Just brilliant.