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Dec 9, 20196 min read
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
2019, Macmillan I highly recommend this book about how our personal data is processed, stored, and made available to governments and...
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kelliebooksblog
Dec 2, 20194 min read
Un jour, j'irai là by Jacqueline Zuinghedau
L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006 While in her 80s, my husband’s great aunt wrote this book about surviving and surpassing a strict religious...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 19, 20193 min read
A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Crown Publishers, 2016 A Mother’s Reckoning is written by the mother of Dylan Klebold who, along with...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 22, 20193 min read
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions 2018, Bloomsbury Circus If you have ever been down, or felt lost,...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 14, 20193 min read
Les passeurs de livres de Daraya by Delphine Minoui
Editions du Seuil, 2017 Marie-Aimée told me about this non-fiction book one day while we were having lunch together. The story sounded...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 7, 20191 min read
Retour à Birkenau by Ginette Kolinka
Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 2019 Ginette Kolinka, 94, was deported to Birkenau from France in 1944. She never spoke of her...
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kelliebooksblog
Sep 3, 20192 min read
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Stories from a South African Childhood 2016, Speigel & Grau I just finished reading this book (summer vacation 2019 book 2) one minute...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 24, 20191 min read
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so. I'll add more content later.
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
Granta Publications, 2014 Essays dealing with relationships between men and women, wherein women are still getting shafted but there's...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20196 min read
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
Published 1935 My copy Routledge Classics 2006 (given to Max for his birthday however) Introduction copyright 1996 Howard Woodhouse This...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Penguin Random House, 2018 I just finished Obama’s book and was surprised to find it was one of those books which make you feel sad it’s...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20194 min read
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume 3 (1944-1969)
Volume 3 Simon and Schuster 1969 This third and last volume of Bertrand Russell’s autobiography covers the last two decades of Russell's...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Faith by Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 2018 Former US President Jimmy Carter talks about his religious faith and his work as Sunday school teacher,...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
Faber & Faber 2018 Before my friend Sue joined the London public library to reduce her massive book budget, she let me take a look in her...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs, Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro gave this Lecture in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 for his «novels of...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Harvard University Press 2017 Talks by Toni Morrison delivered at Harvard University on "the literature of belonging". Forward by...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20195 min read
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol. 2 (1914-1944)
Volume 2 Atlantic - Little, Brown & Company, 1967 In Volume 2 of his autobiography, which is almost as fascinating as Vol 1, Russell...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20192 min read
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 1 (1872-1914)
Volume 1 Atlantic - Little Brown & Company, 1967 This is another of my random book choices found at a book giveaway. I picked it up...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Riveting, well-written behind the scenes account of the War and Post-war reconstruction period in Iraq (2004)....
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20193 min read
French Ways and Their Meaning by Edith Wharton
First published 1919 This work was written during World War I to help American soldiers understand French culture in comparison with...
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