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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon

The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung

The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin

The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon

Mrs Bridge by Evan Connell

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

April 18, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Madame Maigret’s Friend – 4/5 Stars I liked this Maigret more than a lot of others I’ve read. Our mystery involves someone being arrested with a bloody coat hanging in his closet and the burnt remains of a body in his furnace. HIs lawyer maintains that he’s completely innocent of any wrongdoing (including questioning whether or not it’s actually known for sure that wrongdoing has occurred) because of the failure to link physical evidence to the crime. This becomes a bit of a musing on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, Evan Connell, georges simenon, isaiah berlin, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, Rachel Carson, Walker Percy

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:161 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, Evan Connell, georges simenon, isaiah berlin, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, Rachel Carson, Walker Percy ·
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But the Hedgehog knows one big thing.

May 4, 2018 by vel veeter 1 Comment

I decided to read this for three reasons: It was on David Bowie’s book list, I recently-ish read War and Peace and had some questions, and it connected to the other topics I was thinking about in the recent weeks, namely, what it feels to be in the throes of history. In the 1990s, I never felt like I was within history. Then 9/11 happened, I grew up, and I read The Handmaid’s Tale, which has the forgotten ending section that describes the Gilead timeperiod […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: isaiah berlin, the fox and the hedgehog

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:126 · Genres: History · Tags: isaiah berlin, the fox and the hedgehog ·
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    Update: read the whole thing in one sitting, it was excellent. Thank you!
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