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[BOOK REVIEW] How to Read a Book, by Adler & Van Doren (Touchstone)
While the title will make you snigger, this is possibly the most important book you will ever read.
[BOOK REVIEW] Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
The true value in this work is the author’s ability to hold onto your soul and show it some truths about the world, such that you won’t be the same afterwards.
[BOOK REVIEW] Banksy: The man behind the wall, by Will Ellsworth-Jones (Aurum)
This review looks at a relatively recent work (2012) that attempts to draw as complete a portrait as possible of the world’s most famous anonymous artist: Banksy.
[BOOK REVIEW] Live what you love, by Naomi Simson (Harlequin Mira)
This is a book about passion. But it is passionless and flat, weirdly autobiographical without being introspective or emotional, written extremely simply… and aimed at people who are just clearly not at all like me. No, this is not a…