Uncommon Type By: @tomhanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Book 73/100 Pages: 405 Tom Hanks is infatuated with typewriters. Like more than he was with that volleyball in Cast Away. This is his first collection of short stories, it includes a number of vignettes that are often humorous or light-hearted (much like Tom). Tom focuses on several themes in [...]
The Basketball Diaries By: Jim Carroll ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 72/100 Pages: 224 This is a coming of age tale, feature sex, drugs, and basketball. Growing up on New York’s “mean streets” Jim Carroll was a rebellious teen who wanted to make a name for himself during the mid-1960’s. Carroll explores New York City while exploring who [...]
My Sister, the Serial Killer By: Oyinkan Braithwaite ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Book 71/100 Pages: 226 Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel describes the relationship between two sisters, Ayoola and Korede. Their relationship is far from normal, everyone Ayoola seems to date and she ends up killing them and sister Korede is left to clean up the mess. The novel [...]
The Memory Police By: Yoko Ogawa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 70/100 Pages: 274 This is the first of Yoko Ogawa’s work that I’ve read, and I feel I’ve been missing out. The story begins a somber dystopia that slowly twists and turns into a surreal haunting of a sense of ones self. Ogawa’s writing appears simple but [...]
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By: Richard Rothstein ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 69/100 Pages: 368 An extensively researched chronicle of how America’s cities were racially divided through de facto segregation because of government policies and the actions of private institutions including banks and real estate agencies. Richard Rothstein retells [...]
The Power of the Dog By: Don Winslow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 68/100 Pages: 542 The Power of the Dog is an epic tale of the drug trade, weaving a fictional story framed by real-life events. Beginning in 1975 and ending in 2004, encompassing multiple lives of people caught up in cartels, federal government, the mob and [...]
Go Tell It on the Mountain By: James Baldwin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫 Book 67/100 Pages: 226 “There are people in the world for whom ‘coming along’ is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.” James Baldwin is a favorite author of mine and this is one of few works I haven’t read. His [...]
Between The World and Me By: Ta-Nehisi Coates ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Book 66/100 Pages: 152 “An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.” A beautifully crafted piece, a portrait painted of America through the eyes of Ta-Nehisi Coates. [...]
Stories from The Twilight Zone By: Rod Serling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 65/100 Pages: 418 It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the [...]
Homesick For Another World By: Ottessa Moshfegh ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Book 64/100 Pages: 294 This is the first Ottessa Moshfegh (such a cool name) I’ve read, despite having a number of her works on my to be read list. Homesick for Another World is a collection of fourteen short stories, covering self-deception across a spectrum of individuals [...]
