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Utopia by Thomas More
4 of 5 stars
I need to not have pre-conceived notions about books before I read them. For some reason, I thought this was a more contemporary book. I knew that this book was what a lot of dystopian books are influenced by, but I didn’t realize it was written in [...]

Thorn Queen by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
I dove eagerly into Thorn Queen as soon as I finished reading Storm Born. Richelle Mead is a straight-forward writer and an excellent story-teller. Her descriptions of the other world and supporting characters made it incredibly easy to relate to Eugenie Markham, the main [...]

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
2 of 5 stars
This book can be read through two frames. While the author was observing and remarking how quaint and backwards the natives were, I was observing how quaint and backwards the author’s views on Africa was. I had to keep reminding myself of the decades [...]

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
(3 of 5 stars)
This is one of the times I wish we implemented half-stars in our rating system. As a non-fiction book about food, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper is above average. It’s informative, has recipes, is easy to [...]

After using the Nook for a little less than a week, I can justifiably say that ebook readers, are maybe just not for me for the time being.  When the more known Kindle first came out, I had gadget-envy just because e-ink was so different than the LCD screens I’ve grown accustomed to.  It was [...]

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
What could have been an informative, decent book on animal welfare and the environmental impact of our current factory farming system is marred by the author’s need to be clever and add some unconventional pages to his book. I ended up just glossing past [...]

After countless suggestions that I should read The Handmaid’s Tale if I liked dystopian novels, I finally picked up a copy. I’m glad that I read it, but I’m sorry that I read it so late after reading so many other novels with the same theme because I came to it with jaded eyes.
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