Zoë Camille reviewed Passions by Giacomo Leopardi (Margellos world republic of letters book)
"Revenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able …
Review of 'Passions' on 'Goodreads'
Loved the translation!
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Zoë Camille rated Gitanjali: 5 stars
Zoë Camille rated Emergent Strategy: 4 stars
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
Inspired by Octavia …
Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and …
Review of 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Buy this book to learn of the one weird trick that leads to success!, which is basically this: being a human being is not necessarily a defect in a capitalistic setting, if it serves capitalistic ends. Of course, it is filled with a fair dose of yellow-unionism advocacy with just the right level of triumphalism characteristic of the book's age.
Zoë Camille reviewed Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Review of 'Babel-17' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
In a story so much predicated on the concept of language, the printing errors do stand out for and by themselves.
Zoë Camille rated Eva Luna: 5 stars
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Eva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1987 and translated from Spanish to English by …
Zoë Camille rated Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: 4 stars
Zoë Camille rated The Power of the Powerless: 5 stars
Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless
The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel
The Power of the Powerless (Czech: Moc bezmocných) is an expansive political essay written in October 1978 by the Czech …
Zoë Camille rated Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches: 5 stars
Zoë Camille rated Always Coming Home: 5 stars
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin (S.F. Masterworks)
Zoë Camille reviewed Discipline and punish by Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de …
Review of 'Discipline and punish' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Or, how we've been going into this oppressive surveillance society here since the 18th century.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to …
Review of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
It remains a well-aged book, from which the author's humour and enthusiasm jump at you and massage your brain. Well-suited for those taking interest in mathematics.
Zoë Camille rated Four Quartets: 5 stars
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. …
Zoë Camille reviewed A bodyknows by Melanie A. May
Review of 'A bodyknows' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is a small but scintillating book about human condition, mortality, and search for authentic life. Everyone can read it, no matter their religiosity or sect membership.