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Review of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger is an inspiring piece that takes the reader into a new perspective of what it means to be alive on this planet. In her book, Schlanger goes into details on the complex nature of plants and come up with strong arguments that plants have their own form of intelligence and communication as that of the animals. The author uses numerous scientific sources, traditional wisdom, and her own experience to help the readers reconsider the interconnection between plants and all the living beings.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner
Russ Buettner’s Lucky Loser is a detailed look at the machinations of Donald Trump and the factors that helped him achieve fame and fortune through inherited wealth, media manipulation, and dubious business tactics. The title itself hints at the overarching thesis of the book: This is where Trump was able to leverage his father’s money to build his own empire while at the same time recasting the narrative as one of personal achievement. Buettner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, applies his keen insight and thorough research to this vital and engaging account of one of the most polarizing figures in American history.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty is a memoir that documents her life experiences, main areas of concern being triumph over adversity, learning, and the struggle for liberty. Clinton, a powerful woman in the American politics and world politics, offers not only the thoughts from the public life but also her personal reflections, and especially the story of love and loss and the idea of freedom in the contemporary world. The book is as much about the philosophy that the Clintons hold, the social issues that they have witnessed and the strategies that they would like to implement in the future.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Here One Moment is another piece of contemporary fiction that is perfectly built and where the author combines the themes of relationships, family and personal struggles. Moriarty is famed for humor and realism in portraying contemporary life and once more she gives an impressive performance in this book. In Here One Moment, Moriarty has presented her readers with the issues of memory, identity, as well as the transient nature of joy.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: The Vineyard Remains: A Novel by Addison McKnight
The Vineyard Remains by Addison McKnight gives the readers a multi-leveled story that is filled with passion, emotion, and suspense. This novel is set in the vineyard and tells the story of complicated relationships, the secrets that people keep, and the subtleties of grief. McKnight’s storytelling blended with the description of the environment come out as a wonderful story that conveys the message about the hardships of life and the necessity of confronting one’s past.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Review of Task Force Hammer: Expeditionary Force, Book 17 by Craig Alanson
Task Force Hammer is the 17th book in the series of the military science fiction novels called the Expeditionary Force written by Craig Alanson. When you get to Book 17, you already know that you are in a roller coaster of non-stop battles, politics, and artificial intelligence twists, so how does Task Force Hammer maintain this momentum? It is high time to look closer to the novel and discuss its advantages and disadvantages in this new and promising milestone of the series.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, celebrated for his thought-provoking works on history and the future of humanity, has once again captivated readers with his latest offering, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. In this book, Harari discusses the development of information networks and their effects on the history of human beings. Starting with basic forms of communication and moving to the complex system of networks that connect the world today, Harari gives a historical account that brings together past, present and future. This type of review focuses on the major issues of Nexus and offers readers a detailed description of the book’s advantages and disadvantages without revealing the principal conflict.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand: A Comprehensive Review
The Perfect Couple is a riveting novel written by Elin Hilderbrand, which tells the reader a story of love, passion, and betrayal as well as reveals how people can easily surprise us. The story is a perfect combination of suspense, romance and family issues which are developed in the beautiful setting of Nantucket. An author who is often praised for her apt writing of characters and their realistic portrayals, Hilderbrand does not disappoint the reader by presenting another story of flawed lives behind beautiful facades.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Review: I Will Ruin You: A Novel by Linwood Barclay
I Will Ruin You is the latest novel by Linwood Barclay that is once again a worthy addition to his bibliography that features fast-paced narrative, witty dialogues and plot twists. This novel will provide the tension and the intensity which is expected by the readers of the Barclay’s novels. The plot develops in the small town, where everyone has his price and the dark-sinned past is always close behind. The protagonist in the story is a confusing man with a hidden past and as soon as the story begins, the protagonist finds himself in a dangerous game of chase and escape that will leave readers breathless.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Book Review: Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen
In "Don't Believe Everything You Think: It is for this reason that in his article, “Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering,” Joseph Nguyen leads his readers through an entirely new paradigm shift different from what Bouton portrays in course of his book. A show of immense clarity and understanding, Nguyen walks the audience through how that which has been taken as actual reality is the very root of suffering. This book is not simply philosophical, it is perhaps the most practical guide for anybody who is looking to free themselves from those thought processes that constantly relegate them to their dark periods of sadness and suffering.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Review of Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor
Not Till We Are Lost is the fifth novel in Dennis E. Taylor’s Bobiverse series, and it is aimed to captivate the reader into the familiar world of eccentricity of AI, space travel and laughter even deeper. In a world of cloned artificial intelligence beings, space exploration, and technological advancements, this installment provides the audience with more profound exploration of such elements as the essence of human beings, their existence, existence of technology and its effects on civilizations. As the stakes in this series increase higher and higher, Taylor provides readers with another brief look into the future of the Bobiverse while grappling with yet further issues both philosophical and existential. This is because when providing a review on a book, it entails that one explain fanasies and details about the book without giving out the main twist to those who have not read the novel, or those who wish to read it without being influenced by opinions of others. Thus, in this review, I shall be pointing out some of the good and bad aspects of the novel without relating some of its main surprising features.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
Review of Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Starter Villain by John Scalzi can be described as science fiction — humor-based, pointing to the weird and practically absurd, with a great amount of unadulterated cleverness, surprising plot turns, and, of course, rather fascinating protagonists dynamics. All things considered, it is quite serious and, at the same time, contrive a convincing system of values for the sort of comedy the author serves up, where high stakes lie hidden beneath a veil of playful nonchalance. Despite its quirkiness, Scalzi’s name for his universe and the serious issues of right and wrong, power and greed, and identity all blow through this novel on the winds of humor that distinguish this science fiction book. It is easy to read; the poem’s thought flow is fast and it does not take a reader long to finish it in three or less sitting at most.
By William Walkerabout a year ago in BookClub
