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Ehmbee Way
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Akron, Ohio
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January 2023
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Compunction
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The Esoterian: Ramblings of a Madman
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This collection from Tolstoy contains seven "short" stories--though at least two of them are more like novellas. I really wanted to give this book a five star review because I found five of the seven stories to be absolutely brilliant. The Raid and T
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| John Casey’s Spartina is a story about one man’s constant struggle to embrace the future while simultaneously holding onto his past. This universally recognized concept naturally draws the reader in quick. Meanwhile, the effortless-seeming flow of Ca ...more | |
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| I first heard about this book from the Philosophize This! podcast earlier this summer. The premise, as I understood it then, was that in the 1980’s, the prevailing thought in the west was that nihilism existed as a kind of sickness. And that the most ...more | |
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| Many of Peterson's takes were interesting and certainly thought-provoking but, overall, I found it a little too pedantic for as lengthy of book as it is. In other words, as a non-scholastic, casual-minded reader, I found the text to be a little too f ...more | |
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| While the argument that “no narrator should ever be considered reliable” isn’t necessarily new or poignant in the literary world, Victor Ward—Bret Easton Ellis’s protagonist in Glamorama—is such an extreme case of being unreliable that it makes the c ...more | |
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L.I. Henley’s Whole Night Through is a novel in verse that tells the modern story of a young woman who goes missing while her husband is deployed. But it isn’t so much the story that makes it great. It’s more the way that it’s told—i.e. through poetry ...more |
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I’ve spent a good portion of my adult life struggling to find a meaning or a purpose for my own existence. And as such, I’ve read a myriad of books on this topic. Still, to this day, I read them. It’s unlikely I’ll ever stop reading them. I’ve studie ...more |
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| Immersive, gut-wrenching and engaging in a way that few authors will ever be. From the moment I finished it, it fundamentally changed the way I think about writing and the art of storytelling. | |
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Stranger in a Strange Land started off with an intriguing premise: a human baby is raised on Mars by Martians, without any concept of Earth culture and society. But where it ultimately ended up was disappointing, to say the least. The first two-third ...more |
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At a lecture I attended earlier this year, Iheoma Nwachukwu said that he feels African writers writing for western audiences have a duty to write didactically. And that’s a theme that I definitely found to be present in Japa and Other Stories. There a ...more |
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It Came from Ohio by acclaimed journalist James Renner is the kind of light-reading book that can easily be consumed in one sitting. It is, in other words, short, simple and far from exhaustive. And while that might sound like criticism—the idea that ...more |
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