Rated Døden er et kjærtegn 10/10
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Wants to read Agincourt: Great Battles Series
Wants to read The World of the Crusades
Wants to read How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Rated Real Life 10/10
What a beautiful, sad, true book. The way Brandon Taylor uses all five senses in his writing reminds me of Tessa Hadley, in that one can almost taste and smell and BE right there along with the characters. I loved this.
Finished reading Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner
Rated Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America 7/10
<div>This will be a useful book for those who have newly left evangelical communities and need it all laid out from an outside perspective that, yes, this really is as wildly damaging as it seems. It will also be useful for anyone who is perhaps <em>loosely</em> aware of Christian Nationalism, but would like to have some of the dots connected and need a jumping off point.<br><br>That said, I wish there had been a firmer editorial hand in the writing itself. (We understand; you like the word "aegis," and maybe also we don't need to use "perfervid" twice within the same chapter? etc.) I think I was hoping for something that was a little more journalistic. Not dumbed down for the general populace, but perhaps writing that really laid out the facts in a clear way that didn't also feel like a vocabulary worksheet. I love a good word! I do! Still, there are ways to use those words without undermining the effectiveness of your writing.<br><br>However, there are a lot of smart thoughts contained within, and I still learned some things about the terrible way of being that our country seems to be doubling down on, currently. If you have abuse in your past, please make sure you are feeling particularly supported and robust before reading some chapters.</div>
Rated Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear 6/10
<div>Too many similes for my taste, as though the author's anxieties included being unclear, saying the wrong thing. Her admissions of childhood exaggeration seems to inform adulthood catastrophe imagining, which makes sense in a book examining fear, even if I found some parts naive. There are also many good insights, and some of those similes are quite apt. This is more memoir than wolf study, which is preferable for me, but ymmv. Lots to like, but it wasn't love.</div>
Wants to read A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603 - 1714