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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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chianti_cimex_reads rated We Should All Be Feminists: 3 stars
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of …
chianti_cimex_reads rated What Is Anarchism?: 3 stars
What Is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman (Working Classics, 1)
chianti_cimex_reads rated Grapefruit: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Bluest Eye: 4 stars
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Written on the Body: 4 stars
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
"The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Child of God: 3 stars
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Call of the Wild: 3 stars
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, …
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2) by Marjane Satrapi
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful …
chianti_cimex_reads rated All About Love: 4 stars
All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published in 2000 that discusses aspects of love in …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Angry Queer Somali Boy: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Hobbit (Collins Modern Classics): 3 stars
The Hobbit (Collins Modern Classics) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Uzumaki: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Life of Pi: 3 stars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Ghost World: 3 stars
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing …