Kateryna's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:04:45 -0700 60 Kateryna's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1) 55196813
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.]]> 304 Nita Prose 0593356152 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.71 2022 The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains]]> 9778945 Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?

Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.

Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.

Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.]]> 280 Nicholas Carr 0393339750 Kateryna 3 3.90 2010 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
author: Nicholas Carr
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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]]> Жанна батальйонерка 40242402 504 Ґео Шкурупій 6175693728 Kateryna 3 4.13 1930 Жанна батальйонерка
author: Ґео Шкурупій
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[Метелики на шпильках. Б’� восьма. Повнолітні діти]]> 190800498 512 Iryna Vilde 6178257252 Kateryna 3 4.56 1939 Метелики на шпильках. Б’є восьма. Повнолітні діти
author: Iryna Vilde
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1939
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)]]> 8724626 Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification.

Why is it so hard to say “I made a mistake”—and really believe it? When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat others, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. As a result, we unconsciously create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-justification—how it works, the damage it can cause, and how we can overcome it.]]> 84 Frederic P. Miller 6131661405 Kateryna 3 4.00 2007 Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
author: Frederic P. Miller
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average rating: 4.00
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I really enjoyed reading this book. It focuses mainly on how people resolve cognitive dissonances in different spheres of their lives, and it does so with charm and warmth.
]]> <![CDATA[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation]]> 5206073 Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "[helps] liberate Gawain from academia" (Sunday Telegraph).]]> 208 Simon Armitage 0393334155 Kateryna 5 4.05 1375 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
author: Simon Armitage
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures]]> 210594739 Enter the dark side of discover the monsters, witches, and nightmarish traditions behind one of the most celebrated holidays in the world When we imagine the origins of Christmas, we picture halcyon images of mangers, glowing fireplaces, and snow-blanketed winter hills. But the holiday is celebrated during the darkest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere—a season so dark it has given rise to the most outlandish traditions imaginable. In The Dead of Winter, Oxford-trained historian Sarah Clegg delves deep into the folkloric roots of Christmas in Europe, comparing their often-horrific past to the way they continue to haunt and entertain us now in the 21st century. Detailing the hideous masks and curling horns of "Krampus runs" in Austria, the fearsome horseheads of "hoodenings"in Southeast England, and the candle-crowned young witches of Finland's St. Lucy Festival, the author captures the wild revelry at heart of the winter madness. In Clegg’s fascinating investigation, these strange, wonderful traditions are cast in their illuminating historical context. And the closer we get to the dark magic and bright enchantment described inThe Dead of Winter, the more we start to see how fun it might be to let just a bit of the ancient darkness in.]]> 208 Sarah Clegg 1643757083 Kateryna 5 audiobooks Now I know that in the Irish version of Malanka in place of The Goat, my favourite character, they have... Oliver Cromwell.
]]> 3.72 2024 The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
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Excellent non-fiction Winter Solstice time read!
Now I know that in the Irish version of Malanka in place of The Goat, my favourite character, they have... Oliver Cromwell.

]]> <![CDATA[Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea]]> 20736640
"The General will now enter the room."

Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear.

As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.

Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime.]]> 339 Jang Jin-sung 147676655X Kateryna 3 4.31 2014 Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
author: Jang Jin-sung
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average rating: 4.31
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Insightful and emotional. Yet for some reason i could not shake the feeling that the author is hiding something (like to deliberately minimize his involvement into party business, or feinging ignorance of the regime atrocities)
]]> Правік та інші часи 209734588 304 Olga Tokarczuk 617569614X Kateryna 0 to-read 4.57 1996 Правік та інші часи
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average rating: 4.57
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]]> <![CDATA[Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)]]> 23951 123 John Hodge 0786882212 Kateryna 5 4.39 Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)
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]]> <![CDATA[Подорож ученого доктора Леонардо і його майбутньої коханки прекрасної Альчести]]> 17280561 150 Maik Yohansen Kateryna 3 4.19 1928 Подорож ученого доктора Леонардо і його майбутньої коханки прекрасної Альчести
author: Maik Yohansen
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1928
rating: 3
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Монті Пайтон і приголомшлива природа України :)
]]> Dear Committee Members 19288259
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) workAccountant in a Bordello, based on Melville'sBartleby.

In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommendDear Committee Membersto you in the strongest possible terms.]]> 181 Julie Schumacher 0385538138 Kateryna 5 3.73 2014 Dear Committee Members
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> <![CDATA[Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout]]> 197773418 Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.

Our current definition of “productivity� is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?

Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers—from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe—Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,� a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for workers to replace them with a slower, more humane alternative.

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.]]> 244 Cal Newport 0593544854 Kateryna 3 audiobooks 3.65 2024 Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> Starter Villain 61885029
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389223 Kateryna 2 4.09 2023 Starter Villain
author: John Scalzi
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average rating: 4.09
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Franky, I did not find this book funny or engaging (though it has an adaptation potential). However, the author describes cats so lovingly, that I haven't got it in my heart to give it a one-star-rating.
]]> <![CDATA[Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)]]> 375802
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.]]> 324 Orson Scott Card 0812550706 Kateryna 2 4.31 1985 Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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average rating: 4.31
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rating: 2
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]]> The Life Impossible 198281740
“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…�

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.]]> 324 Matt Haig 0593489276 Kateryna 1 3.45 2024 The Life Impossible
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average rating: 3.45
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rating: 1
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]]> На дне 7625453 256 Maxim Gorky 5352016897 Kateryna 4 3.81 1902 На дне
author: Maxim Gorky
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 1902
rating: 4
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ну то есть как, "i really liked it", конечно же такое нельзя рилли лайк, но пьеса крутая. чтоб вот начинали запахи грязных тряпок и плохой водки чувствоваться при прочтении - это не всякий автор так умеет!
]]> Devils Kill Devils 203579239 Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters—angels, devils, vampires—and a heart-pounding race to save the world.

When all hell breaks loose, you need a devil on your side

Sarita has been watched over by a guardian angel her entire life. She calls him Angelo, and keeps him a secret. But secrets can’t stay buried forever� When Angelo murders someone she loves, Sarita begins to see what's really been lurking in the shadows surrounding her. And she will have to embrace the evil within if she hopes to make it out alive.

Johnny Compton, critically acclaimed author of The Spite House and master of dread, takes you on a terrifying race of one woman against the hordes of hell. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 281 Johnny Compton 1250841682 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.16 2024 Devils Kill Devils
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]]> The Examiner 207294238
Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom for her new master’s program before the university cuts her funding. The students are nothing but trouble from day one.

There’s Jem, a talented sculptor recently graduated from her university program and eager to make her mark as an artist at any cost. Jonathan, who has little experience in art practice aside from running his family’s gallery. Patrick runs an art supply store, but can barely operate his phone, much less design software. Ludya is a single mother and graphic designer more interested in a paycheck than homework. Cameron is a marketing executive in search of a hobby or a career change. And Alyson, already a successful artist, seems to be overqualified. Finally, there is the examiner, the man hired to grade students� final works—an art installation for a local cloud-based solutions company that may have an ulterior agenda—and who, in sifting through final essays, texts, and message boards, warns that someone is in danger…or already dead. And nothing about this course has been left up to chance.

With her trademark “unique and exhilarating� (Megan Collins, author of The Family Plot) voice, Janice Hallett weaves a fresh and mind-bending mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.]]> 480 Janice Hallett 1668023423 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.71 2024 The Examiner
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> ’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]> 483 Stephen King 0450031063 Kateryna 3 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
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average rating: 4.06
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I was surprised to find it scarier than It. For some reason I find King's novels quite soothing to read when sheltering during air raids. This one was _not_ soothing.
]]> The Known World 67 The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.

The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities.]]> 388 Edward P. Jones 0061159174 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.83 2003 The Known World
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> Война и мир. Том 1/4 23902108 473 Leo Tolstoy Kateryna 4 4.34 Война и мир. Том 1/4
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)]]> 92250
The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.]]> 119 Tony Kushner 1559360615 Kateryna 4 4.27 1993 Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Murder at the End of the World]]> 136276877
Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.

On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.

Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.

But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer—and they don't even know it.

And the clock is ticking.

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution.]]> 368 Stuart Turton Kateryna 3 3.63 2024 The Last Murder at the End of the World
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average rating: 3.63
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]]> James 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Kateryna 1 4.46 2024 James
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]]> Cut and Thirst 209411839 Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, and delicious retribution by Margaret Atwood, the #1 bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta. All they need is a plan with suitably Shakespearean drama. But as sweet and satisfying as revenge can be, it’s not always so cut and dried.]]> 35 Margaret Atwood 1662523335 Kateryna 3 3.13 2024 Cut and Thirst
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average rating: 3.13
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rating: 3
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]]> Soviet Milk 37554380 She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir?

At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 1969 and 1989. Yet just beneath the surface lies something far more positive: the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide � love, and the desire for life.]]> 192 Nora Ikstena 1908670428 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.20 2015 Soviet Milk
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness]]> 59088361 From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things.

Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us.

Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things, Magness teaches us how we can work with our body - how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience:

Pillar 1- Ditch the Façade, Embrace Reality
Pillar 2- Listen to Your Body
Pillar 3- Respond, Instead of React
Pillar 4- Transcend Discomfort

Smart and wise all at once, Magness flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life's challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.]]> 320 Steve Magness 006309861X Kateryna 3 audiobooks 3.78 2022 Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)]]> 22840421 This comical, fantastical, romantical, New York Times bestselling, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey is “an uproarious historical fantasy that’s not to be missed� (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind YA fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.

At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane gets to be Queen of England.

Like that could go wrong.]]> 474 Cynthia Hand 0062391798 Kateryna 3 Judging by the first 2 episodes the Prime series is better, but I still finished the book.
Probably doesn't deserve 3 stars, but it has (spoilers!) a happy ending, so here it is :)]]> 4.00 2016 My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
author: Cynthia Hand
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A summer read.
Judging by the first 2 episodes the Prime series is better, but I still finished the book.
Probably doesn't deserve 3 stars, but it has (spoilers!) a happy ending, so here it is :)
]]> <![CDATA[Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There]]> 176442617
Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible. They get used to dirty air. They stay in abusive relationships. People grow to accept authoritarianism and take foolish risks. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before.

But what if we could find a way to see everything anew? What if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don’t try to change?

Now, neuroscience professor Tali Sharot and Harvard law professor (and presidential advisor) Cass R. Sunstein investigate why we stop noticing both the great and not-so-great things around us and how to “dishabituate� at the office, in the bedroom, at the store, on social media, and in the voting booth. This groundbreaking work, based on decades of research in the psychological and biological sciences, illuminates how we can reignite the sparks of joy, innovate, and recognize where improvements urgently need to be made. The key to this disruption—to seeing, feeling, and noticing again—is change. By temporarily changing your environment, changing the rules, changing the people you interact with—or even just stepping back and imagining change—you regain sensitivity, allowing you to more clearly identify the bad and more deeply appreciate the good.]]> 288 Tali Sharot 1668008203 Kateryna 2 audiobooks 3.65 2024 Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World]]> 16043523 From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.

How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns—such as the law of gravity—our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But how do we do it?

In Probably Approximately Correct, computer scientist Leslie Valiant presents a masterful synthesis of learning and evolution to show how both individually and collectively we not only survive, but prosper in a world as complex as our own. The key is “probably approximately correct� algorithms, a concept Valiant developed to explain how effective behavior can be learned. The model shows that pragmatically coping with a problem can provide a satisfactory solution in the absence of any theory of the problem. After all, finding a mate does not require a theory of mating. Valiant’s theory reveals the shared computational nature of evolution and learning, and sheds light on perennial questions such as nature versus nurture and the limits of artificial intelligence.

Offering a powerful and elegant model that encompasses life’s complexity, Probably Approximately Correct has profound implications for how we think about behavior, cognition, biological evolution, and the possibilities and limits of human and machine intelligence.
]]> 208 Leslie Valiant 0465032710 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.62 2013 Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
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]]> Factory Girls 59892267
It’s the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism—away from her crowded home, the silence and sadness surrounding her sister’s death, and most of all, away from the violence of her divided community.

As a first step, Maeve’s taken a job in a shirt factory working alongside Protestants with her best friends. But getting the right exam results is only part of Maeve’s problem—she’s got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign, iron 100 shirts an hour all day every day, and deal with the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slick and untrustworthy English boss. Then, as the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on behind the scenes at the factory. What seems to be a great opportunity to earn money turns out to be a crucible in which Maeve faces the test of a lifetime. Seeking justice for herself and her fellow workers may just be Maeve’s one-way ticket out of town.

Bitingly hilarious, clear-eyed, and steeped in the vernacular of its time and place, Factory Girls tackles questions of wealth and power, religion and nationalism, and how young women maintain hope for themselves and the future during divided, violent times.
ձ> 294 Michelle Gallen 1643752456 Kateryna 3 3.67 2022 Factory Girls
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average rating: 3.67
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I fail to see how this novel is "funny" in any sense of the word, but I quite enjoyed reading it and found it thought provoking
]]> Wandering Stars 174147294
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother, Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.

Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage—a masterful follow-up to his already-classic first novel, and a devastating indictment of America’s war on its own people.]]> 315 Tommy Orange 0593318250 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.83 2024 Wandering Stars
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]]> <![CDATA[The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self]]> 55120630
But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.

Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.

Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.]]> 304 Michael Easter 0593138767 Kateryna 2 audiobooks 4.21 2021 The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough]]> 75494984
“Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive

Arewehardwired to cravemore? From food and stuff to information and influence,why can’t we ever get enough?

Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn’t you. The problem is yourscarcitymindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired “scarcitybrain� is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions—from dating and entertainment apps to our food and economic systems—are exploiting ourscarcitybrain. They’re bombarding us with subversive “scarcitycues,� subtle triggers that lead us into low-reward cravings that hurt us in the long run.Scarcitycues can be direct and all-encompassing, like a sagging economy. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car.

Easter traveled the world to consult with remarkable innovators and leading scientists who are finding surprising solutions for ourscarcitybrain. He discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have, including how

� Detect hiddenscarcitycues to stop cravings before they start, from a brilliant slot machine designer in a Las Vegas casino laboratory
� Turn alone time into the ultimate happiness hack, from artisanal coffee-making Benedictine monks
� Reignite your exploration gene for a more exciting and fulfilling life, from an astronaut onboard the International Space Station
� Reframe how we think about and fix addiction and bad habits, from Iraq’s chief psychiatrist
� Recognize when you have enough, from a woman who left a million-dollar career path to adventure the world

Our world is overloaded with everything we’re built to crave. The fix forscarcitybrainisn’t to blindly aim for less. It’s to understand why we crave more in the first place, shake our worst habits, and use what we already have better. Then we can experience life in a new way—a more satisfying way.]]> 304 Michael Easter 0593236629 Kateryna 3 audiobooks 3.87 Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
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]]> <![CDATA[Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence]]> 55723020
In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain...and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of Dopesick


INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant� riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
As heard on Fresh Air]]> 304 Anna Lembke 1524746738 Kateryna 2 audiobooks 3.88 2021 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving]]> 52668196 Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can't we just take a break?

In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside and start living instead of doing.

The key lies in embracing what makes us human: our creativity, our social connections (Instagram doesn't count), our ability for reflective thought, and our capacity for joy. Celeste's strategies will allow you to regain control over your life and break your addiction to false efficiency, including:

-Increase your time perception and determine how your hours are being spent.
-Stop comparing yourself to others.
-Invest in quality idle time. Take a hot bath and listen to music.
-Spend face-to-face time with friends and family

It's time to recover our leisure time and reverse the trend that's making us all sadder, sicker, and less productive.

]]> 288 Celeste Headlee 1984824732 Kateryna 0 audiobooks 3.84 2020 Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
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]]> Strangers 1347446 208 Taichi Yamada 1932234039 Kateryna 3 3.64 1987 Strangers
author: Taichi Yamada
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average rating: 3.64
book published: 1987
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VERY different from the movie with Andrew Scott. Also better than that movie :)
]]> <![CDATA[Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction]]> 36959766 Canada's productivity expert returns with a totally fresh angle on how to do more with less.

Throughout his experiments and research, Chris Bailey came across many little-known insights into how we focus (a key element of productivity), including the surprising idea that focus isn't so much a state of heightened awareness (as we'd assume), but a balance between two frames of mind. The most recent neuroscientific research on attention reveals that our brain has two powerful modes that can be unlocked when we use our attention well: a focused mode (hyperfocus), which is the foundation for being highly productive, and a creative mode (scatterfocus), which enables us to connect ideas in novel ways. Hyperfocus helps readers unlock both, so they can concentrate more deeply, think more clearly, and work and live more deliberately. Diving deep into the science and theories about how and why we bring our attention to bear on life's big goals and everyday tasks, Chris Bailey takes his unique approach to productivity to the next level in Hyperfocus, while retaining the approachable voice and perspective that made him a fast favourite.]]> 256 Chris Bailey 0735273685 Kateryna 2 audiobooks 3.86 2018 Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
rating: 2
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]]> Знову й знову 59862931 472 Ben Elton 9666799723 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.20 2014 Знову й знову
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention� and How to Think Deeply Again]]> 57933306 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]> 357 Johann Hari 0593138511 Kateryna 4 audiobooks Very entertaining. 4.22 2022 Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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Very entertaining.
]]> Ripe 62919394
Though isolated, Cassie is never alone. From her earliest memory, a miniature black hole has been her constant companion. It feeds on her depression and anxiety, its size changing in relation to her distress. The black hole watches, but it also waits. Its relentless pull draws Cassie ever-closer as the world around her unravels.

When her CEO’s demands cross an illegal threshold and she ends up unexpectedly pregnant, Cassie must decide whether the tempting fruits of Silicon Valley are really worth it. Sharp but vulnerable, funny yet unsettling, Ripe portrays one millennial woman’s journey through a late-capitalist hellscape and offers an incisive look at the absurdities of modern life.]]> 288 Sarah Rose Etter 1668011638 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.60 2023 Ripe
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]]> The Day Tripper 156347494 The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames.

He wakes the next day to find he’s in a messy, derelict room he’s never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn’t recognize, with no idea of how he got there. A glimpse in the mirror tells him he’s older—much older—and has been living a hard life, his features ravaged by time and poor decisions. He snatches a newspaper and finds it’s 2010—fifteen years since the fight.

After finally drifting off to sleep, Alex wakes the following morning to find it’s now 2019, another nine years later. But the next day, it’s 1999. Never knowing which day is coming, he begins to piece together what happens in his life after that fateful night by the river.

But what exactly is going on? Why does his life look nothing like he thought it would? What about Cambridge, and Holly? In this thrilling adventure, Alex must navigate his way through the years to learn that small actions have untold impact. And that might be all he needs to save the people he loves and, equally importantly, himself.]]> 368 James Goodhand Kateryna 0 to-read 3.70 2024 The Day Tripper
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]]> The Other Valley 176450755
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town--except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness.

When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. Edme––who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly see Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate, yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future.]]> 290 Scott Alexander Howard 1668015471 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.85 2024 The Other Valley
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]]> Yellowface 59357120
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 329 R.F. Kuang Kateryna 3 3.84 2023 Yellowface
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)]]> 206955 192 Richard Pipes 0812968646 Kateryna 3 3.73 1994 Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> Я бачу, вас цікавить пітьма 55168065
«Я бачу, вас цікавить пітьма» � історія про непробивну людську байдужість і пітьму всередині нас. Про чесність із собою й ціну, яку ми готові заплатити за забуття. Про гріхи, що матеріалізуються, і спокуту, дорожчу за спокій.]]> 664 Ілларіон Павлюк 6176798329 Kateryna 4 4.59 2020 Я бачу, вас цікавить пітьма
author: Ілларіон Павлюк
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems]]> 43852758 The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.

By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.]]> 308 Randall Munroe 0525537090 Kateryna 4 audiobooks 4.14 2019 How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
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average rating: 4.14
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception]]> 46168432
From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff’s appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a near-universal human tendency to operate within a mindset that can be characterized as a “truth-default.� We uncritically accept most of the messages we receive as “honest.� We all are perceptually blind to deception. We are hardwired to be duped. The question is, can anything be done to militate against our vulnerability to deception without further eroding the trust in people and social institutions that we so desperately need in civil society?

Timothy R. Levine’s Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception—truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially. Further, because most deception is enacted by a few prolific liars, the so called “truth-bias� is not really a bias after all. Passive belief makes us right most of the time, but the catch is that it also makes us vulnerable to occasional deceit.

Levine’s research on lie detection and truth-bias has produced many provocative new findings over the years. He has uncovered what makes some people more believable than others and has discovered several ways to improve lie-detection accuracy. In Duped , Levine details where these ideas came from, how they were tested, and how the findings combine to produce a coherent new understanding of human deception and deception detection.
ձ> 384 Timothy R. Levine 0817320415 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.48 Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
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]]> Три зозулі з поклоном 27422795 Григір Тютюнник Kateryna 0 4.32 1976 Три зозулі з поклоном
author: Григір Тютюнник
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> At Amberleaf Fair 3637557 192 Phyllis Ann Karr 044152009X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.70 1986 At Amberleaf Fair
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1986
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]]> Julia 86508927
But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department—a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith—when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note—a potentially suicidal gesture—she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.

Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.]]> 400 Sandra Newman 0063265338 Kateryna 4
Trigger warnings galore, but then of course you know what you're after when you take a book about the 1984 world. Just don't make a mistake of "oh I hardly remember Orwell's book, so maybe I should read Julia and listen to 1984 audiobook in parallel", that messes up with your head. I'd give it 4 stars, but one couldn't honestly say "I really liked it" about the novel that made one feel so rotten while reading it.]]> 3.71 2023 Julia
author: Sandra Newman
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average rating: 3.71
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rating: 4
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It's gruesome and wonderful. A satisfying second, female gaze to Winston's unreliable narration.

Trigger warnings galore, but then of course you know what you're after when you take a book about the 1984 world. Just don't make a mistake of "oh I hardly remember Orwell's book, so maybe I should read Julia and listen to 1984 audiobook in parallel", that messes up with your head. I'd give it 4 stars, but one couldn't honestly say "I really liked it" about the novel that made one feel so rotten while reading it.
]]> <![CDATA[Пхеньян: Подорож Північною Кореєю]]> 53401812
У творі «Пхеньян: Подорож Північною Кореєю» узагальнені ідеї й заслуги великого вождя товариша Кім Ір Сена та великого керівника товариша Кім Чен Іра в побудові справедливої, укріпленої та розвиненої країни, якою зараз є Північна Корея. Щасливими є мешканці нашої держави, яскраво освітлені напрямки й шляхи завершення справи соціалізму з використанням державної влади як політичної зброї.

Ми як видавництво докладемо всіх зусиль, щоби кожен, хто перетнеться із мальованою історією «Пхеньян: Подорож Північною Кореєю» оцінили, наскільки цей твір сповнений гідності, соціалістичної культури, правдивих описів північнокорейського життя, найкращої моралі. В книжці нема місця найменшим неблагодійним елементам, спотворенню культури побуту корейського зразка, ідейних перегинів та ознак морального занепаду. Вона відповідає естетичним смакам нашого часу та прагненню до якнайповнішого оприявлення ідейно-культурних позицій переможної Корейської Народної Демократичної Республіки.

Після прочитання даного твору ніщо не змусить вас повернутися й зупинити переконливий прогрес себе, як читача, що має тверді переконання і волю вірити у власні сили і здатність відкривати для себе нове і незнане, яким поки що є і мистецтво мальованих історій.]]> 176 Guy Delisle 6177818137 Kateryna 2 4.08 2003 Пхеньян: Подорож Північною Кореєю
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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]]> The Marriage Act 62967873 What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey?

Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills � the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single.

But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives � monitoring every word, every minor disagreement � and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honor and obey.]]> 432 John Marrs 1335005935 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.73 2023 The Marriage Act
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> In the Lives of Puppets 60784549
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,� he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.

When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.

Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?

Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.]]> 432 T.J. Klune 125021744X Kateryna 0 to-read 3.90 2023 In the Lives of Puppets
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]]> The Country of Ice Cream Star 22350219
In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies--a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.

When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.

A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.]]> 592 Sandra Newman 0062227092 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.57 2014 The Country of Ice Cream Star
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> <![CDATA[Записки українського самашедшого]]> 10392355 У світі надмірної (дез)інформації і тотального відчуження він � заручник світових абсурдів � прагне подолати комунікативну прірву між чоловіком і жінкою, між родиною і професією, між Україною і світом.
За жанровою стилістикою «Записки українського самашедшого» � насичений мікс художньої літератури, внутрішніх щоденників, сучасного літописання і публіцистики.]]> 416 Lina Kostenko 9667047881 Kateryna 0 4.08 2010 Записки українського самашедшого
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> A Redbird Christmas 199532 193 Fannie Flagg 0345480260 Kateryna 3 3.89 2004 A Redbird Christmas
author: Fannie Flagg
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> Foe 37510662
We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have.

In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone—not even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company.

Told in Reid’s sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.]]> 261 Iain Reid 150112742X Kateryna 3 3.70 2018 Foe
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average rating: 3.70
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I found it sort of predictable, but well done nonetheless.
]]> There There 36692478 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375.

Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.

Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.

Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.]]> 294 Tommy Orange Kateryna 2 audiobooks Can't decide on the rating, so leaving it blank.]]> 3.98 2018 There There
author: Tommy Orange
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.98
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rating: 2
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A very sad story of phantom (but all too real) pains in the amputated culture.
Can't decide on the rating, so leaving it blank.
]]> малий український роман 55249702 208 Andriy Lyubka 6177807070 Kateryna 2 3.67 малий український роман
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]]> Тигролови 11729590
Серед картин знущань над людьми, приниження людської гідності, насилля автор звертає увагу на волю до життя, родинні відносини, вічність традицій предків, ролі особистості у суспільстві, знаходить місце для гармонії людини і природи, а головне для великого справжнього кохання, сильнішого за смерть.]]> 256 Ivan Bahrianyi 9666727722 Kateryna 3 4.62 1944 Тигролови
author: Ivan Bahrianyi
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.62
book published: 1944
rating: 3
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]]> The Penelopiad 17645 Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making.

In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids.

In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.]]> 198 Margaret Atwood 1841957178 Kateryna 3 3.71 2005 The Penelopiad
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average rating: 3.71
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rating: 3
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]]> It 830502
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]> 1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Kateryna 4 4.28 1986 It
author: Stephen King
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 4
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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.�

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Kateryna 4 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
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average rating: 4.10
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues]]> 61327450 An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs

According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.

Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions.

By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.]]> 304 Jonathan Kennedy 0593240472 Kateryna 3 3.92 2023 Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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average rating: 3.92
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More like 3.5. Very insightful, especially the first half of the book.
]]> <![CDATA[Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing]]> 18053732
At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster and more efficiently: that drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. Books such as Getting Things Done, The One Minute Manager, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People regularly top the bestseller lists, and have spawned a considerable industry.

But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness� is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being. He makes a compelling case � backed by science � that filling life with activity at work and at home actually hurts your brain.

A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma� training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled a self-described “loathing� of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax � right now."

--OR Books]]> 148 Andrew Smart 1939293103 Kateryna 2 3.40 2013 Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.40
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches]]> 60018635 A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life.

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.

As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....
]]> 318 Sangu Mandanna 059343935X Kateryna 1 4.04 2022 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.04
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]]> We Should All Be Feminists 22738563 We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.

Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Kateryna 2 4.42 2012 We Should All Be Feminists
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name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2012
rating: 2
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]]> Танці з кістками 61867327
Проста, на перший погляд, історія про патологоанатома-невдаху. Северина не цінують на роботі й мало платять, з особистим життям чоловіка відбувається щось незрозуміле, самооцінка на нулі. Тож перебуваючи практично на дні, він одразу ж хапається за можливість підзаробити. Так, пропозиція не зовсім легальна, так, навряд чи можна чекати чогось доброго від ринку трансплантації органів, але так спокусливо нарешті влаштувати собі забезпечене життя. Зрештою, Северин має забрати в уже мертвих людей якусь дрібничку, те, що їм і так не потрібно. Поки що у мертвих людей, поки що дрібничку.

Крок за кроком, рішення за рішенням патологоанатом змінюється, трансформується � так в усіма зневаженого чоловіка на межі алкоголізму спершу проростає впевненість у собі, а за нею і безпринципність.

Скоївши один злочин, він набагато легше вчиняє інший, а за ним і наступний. Те, що вчора Северин вважав неприпустимим, стає новою нормою. Та й узагалі виникає питання: чи здатен він тепер зупинитися і як далеко може зайти?


Андрій Семʼянків � лікар, автор блогу MED GOblin та бестселера «Медицина доказова і не дуже».]]> 368 Андрій Сем’янкі� 6177960677 Kateryna 2 4.40 Танці з кістками
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]]> Культурна експансія 75630884 240 Євген Лір 9661545731 Kateryna 2 4.38 Культурна експансія
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Kateryna 2 sad and sort of contrived 3.66 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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average rating: 3.66
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sad and sort of contrived
]]> Half of a Yellow Sun 18749 A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,� Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.

With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.]]> 435 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1400044162 Kateryna 5
Також дуже несподівано книга виявилася дуже терапевтичною, і от прямо зараз усім її рекомендую читати.]]> 4.34 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun
author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.34
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rating: 5
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One of the best books I've read in years. Couldn't put it down, can't understand how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie could be so pitch perfect when describing families, and power dynamics, and expat life, and war.

Також дуже несподівано книга виявилася дуже терапевтичною, і от прямо зараз усім її рекомендую читати.
]]> <![CDATA[Чому зебри не страждають на виразку]]> 56677589 400 Robert M. Sapolsky 6170965037 Kateryna 4 4.56 1993 Чому зебри не страждають на виразку
author: Robert M. Sapolsky
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2023/05/26
date added: 2023/05/26
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]]> The Langoliers 61328441 Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn't.

6 Audio Cassettes / 8 Hours 41 mins]]> 320 Stephen King Kateryna 2 3.90 1990 The Langoliers
author: Stephen King
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1990
rating: 2
read at: 2022/07/13
date added: 2023/03/29
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]]> Перверзія 14762393 What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky -- poet, provocateur, and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Certain evidence points to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern European tradition of coerced suicide. It may be related to the religious cult ceremony he unluckily happened upon in Munich. . . or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older women.

Or, then again, it may not.

Perverzion reconstructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps of paper. Perfetsky, the personification of the Ukrainian artistic superman (for example, he plays countless musical instruments so well he collaborated with Elton John during the star's secret sojourn in Ukraine), is bound for Venice to participate in a seminar to save the world from its absurdity. On the way he becomes a Ukrainian Orpheus, descending into the sophisticated decadence of the West, navigating through surrealistic adventures and no less surrealistic seminar topics as he charges head up (and pants down) toward his fate.

A work of sly, subversive humor and fantastic wordplay, Perverzion is a look into the new Ukraine's post-Soviet literary culture by one of the country's foremost contemporary writers.

]]> 288 Yuri Andrukhovych 9667493083 Kateryna 3 3.83 1997 Перверзія
author: Yuri Andrukhovych
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2023/01/17
date added: 2023/02/13
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]]> Fairy Tale 60177373 Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder.

Because within the shed is a portal to another world—one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the “Fair One.� And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time.

A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King’s work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying.]]> 607 Stephen King 1668002175 Kateryna 3 4.05 2022 Fairy Tale
author: Stephen King
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> Mrs. Wickham 62337424
Imagine if you made one little mistake when you were young and were punished for it for the rest of your life. Well, that’s what happened to Lydia (yes, that Lydia, the youngest Bennet sister from Pride and Prejudice), and she’s here to set the record straight. Hold on to your teacups and get ready for sophisticated (and a little bit naughty) hot takes and witty banter that’ll make you laugh—and think.

We meet Lydia just as she is denounced by her family, exiled miles from home, and married to the rogue George Wickham, who seems to love all women...except his own wife. She must learn to summon great bravery to carve out a place for herself in the society that has brutally rejected her.

Lydia isn’t the traditional Austen heroine, and this isn’t a traditional, polite period drama. Lydia is a badass. A trailblazer. She’s fierce and fiercely funny. And she might inhabit the Regency period, but she’s fighting the same battle many of us are today—having to defend the decisions she’s made and the person she chooses to love, to shut out the 'trolls' and gossips, to hold her head high in a world that will judge her for any mistake she makes.

Starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley (Fargo, The Lost Daughter) and Johnny Flynn (Lovesick, Stardust), this hilarious and timely listen is for fans of classics with a twist. Writer and creator playwright Sarah Page says that she wrote Mrs. Wickham to 'entertain people with a romantic, optimistic, and seductive comedy,' but that there’s also a 'message held at its heart to treat each other with kindness.'

If you binged Bridgerton, this one’s for you.

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins]]> 2 Sarah Page Kateryna 1 audiobooks 3.77 2022 Mrs. Wickham
author: Sarah Page
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2023/02/13
date added: 2023/02/13
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]]> In a Holidaze 50892287 Alternate cover edition can be found here

One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
]]> 307 Christina Lauren 198212394X Kateryna 2 3.65 2020 In a Holidaze
author: Christina Lauren
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 2
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A Hallmark movie in a book form. Goes down better with eggnog.
]]> Місто 17228896
Створене у 1927 році, «Місто» є першим урбаністичним романом в український літературі. Новаторство Валер’ян� Підмогильного � в тому, що Київ також постає у творі одним із його героїв: саме вплив міста визначає долю Степана. Цю думку поділяє й ілюстратор книжки Максим Павлюк.]]> 288 Valerian Pidmohylny Kateryna 4 4.32 1927 Місто
author: Valerian Pidmohylny
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1927
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/20
date added: 2022/11/05
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 42815544
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.]]> 307 Mona Awad 0525559736 Kateryna 3 3.53 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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It's like A Secret History, but with a cast of Mean Girls and at some point the acid kicks in, but throughout the subsequent trip it's still an entertaining satire of the good ol' Ivory Tower. I picked up this book two weeks before Halloween and it turned out to be a great time to read this novel!
]]> Red, White & Royal Blue 41150487
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?]]> 448 Casey McQuiston 1250316774 Kateryna 2 4.06 2019 Red, White & Royal Blue
author: Casey McQuiston
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2022/08/31
date added: 2022/09/21
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]]> To Paradise 57739876 From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances.

These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvellous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love � partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens � and the pain that ensues when we cannot.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385547935 Kateryna 0 to-read 3.74 2022 To Paradise
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.74
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]]> Sea of Tranquility 58446227 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." --The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.]]> 259 Emily St. John Mandel 0593321448 Kateryna 0 to-read 4.04 2022 Sea of Tranquility
author: Emily St. John Mandel
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Коротка історія українського фемінізму: мальопис]]> 61884473
Ви тримаєте в руках книжку, яка покаже й розкаже, хто посприяли появі фемінізму на території України, хто підтримували і поділяли феміністичні погляди, а хто їм усіляко опиралися. Це наша скромна спроба охопити неосяжне на помірній кількості сторінок.

До прочитання цієї книжки ви могли й не знати, хто такі Наталія Кобринська, Мілена Рудницька, Ольга Кобилянська чи Соломія Павличко. Але якщо знаєте � комікс приверне увагу до цікавих дрібничок і нюансів у їхніх біографіях, що їх ви до того могли не помічати, а ще окреслить сучасний контекст теми українського фемінізму в дотепних вставках-інтермедіях.

Тож гарної подорожі в історію!]]> 104 Микола Ябченко 617781879X Kateryna 3 4.26 2022 Коротка історія українського фемінізму: мальопис
author: Микола Ябченко
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2022/08/12
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Я навіть не знаю, що сказати. З одного боку: ура, український мальопис про історію і сьогодення українського фемінізму. З іншого: нам про все це зі сторінок менсплейн двоє чоловіків, автор і видавець. I mean, really? Але намальовано добре, і однозначно треба купляти :)
]]> Comfort Me with Apples 56179382
It's just that he's away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect.

But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband's face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can't quite meet her gaze...

But everything is perfect. Isn't it?]]> 103 Catherynne M. Valente 1250816211 Kateryna 4 3.58 2021 Comfort Me with Apples
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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A dark fairy tale, just as I like them!
]]> The Test 41940388 Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.
He wants his family to belong.

Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.

When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.
How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?]]> 108 Sylvain Neuvel 1250312833 Kateryna 3 3.82 2019 The Test
author: Sylvain Neuvel
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/08/01
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як для нас і зараз, то треба ставити тріґґер ворнінг. але повість мені сподобалась. такий собі літературний епізод Чорного Дзеркала.
]]> Violeta 57933338 The epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. . . .

She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics.

Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.]]> 322 Isabel Allende 0593496205 Kateryna 3 3.97 2022 Violeta
author: Isabel Allende
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Кім Джійон, 1982 року народження]]> 60112662
Роман про нелегке життя жінки у консервативному патріархальному суспільстві, попри те, що Південна Корея аж ніяк не надається до визначення країни, відсталої в культурному й економічному розвитку. Відверта й розпачлива історія «другої статі», у якій сотні тисяч жінок по всьому світу впізнають себе.]]> 160 Cho Nam-Joo 6177654819 Kateryna 2 4.33 2016 Кім Джійон, 1982 року народження
author: Cho Nam-Joo
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at: 2022/02/10
date added: 2022/07/03
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]]> За лаштунками імперії 58785076 Уже не одне століття речницею антиколоніального дискурсу є вітчизняна література. Від Котляревського, Квітки-Основ’яненк�, харківських романтиків аж до епохи модернізму й зрештою постання держави вона пропонувала різні моделі ідентичности, підважуючи імперські претензії й утверджуючи власну культурну самодостатність.
У цій книжці авторитетна літературознавиця Віра Агеєва через призму культурного процесу аналізує український спротив імперії та боротьбу за збереження колективної пам’ят�.]]> 360 Віра Агеєва 6177960324 Kateryna 2 4.41 2021 За лаштунками імперії
author: Віра Агеєва
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2022/04/30
date added: 2022/07/03
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]]> Billy Summers 56852407
How about everything...]]> 517 Stephen King 1982173610 Kateryna 3 4.11 2021 Billy Summers
author: Stephen King
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/05/26
date added: 2022/07/03
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]]> Рівне/Ровно 12566823 224 Олександр Ірванець 9660351070 Kateryna 3 3.61 2001 Рівне/Ровно
author: Олександр Ірванець
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2022/06/26
date added: 2022/07/03
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]]> Надруковано в Бейруті 54540095
У романі Жаббура Дуейги вміло поєднується за­хоп­ливий сюжет з історичним тлом і вишуканою іронією, з якою він описує сучасне ліванське суспільство.]]> 202 Jabbour Douaihy Kateryna 3 3.64 Надруковано в Бейруті
author: Jabbour Douaihy
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.64
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2020/12/18
date added: 2022/05/12
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]]> Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 1295990 125 Oscar Wilde 1853260665 Kateryna 3 3.80 1887 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1887
rating: 3
read at: 2018/06/05
date added: 2022/05/05
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]]> Мина Мазайло 16069036
У творі використано широкий діапазон живої і тому колоритної мови, що відбиває специфіку духовних та національних цінностей основних персонажів. Комедія характеризується широкою палітрою інтонацій та мелодійних візерунків � веселих, ніжних, мажорних, романтичних, елегійних, сумних, трагікомедій них і навіть фантасмагорійних.]]> 144 Mykola Kulish Kateryna 4 4.29 1929 Мина Мазайло
author: Mykola Kulish
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1929
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/01
date added: 2022/05/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)]]> 720987
When the doctor advises Bertie to live the quiet life, he and Jeeves head for the pure air and peace of Maiden Eggesford. However, they hadn't reckoned on Bertie's irrepressible but decidedly scheming Aunt Dahlia, around whom an imbroglio of impressive proportions develops involving The Cat Which Kept Popping Up When Least Expected. As Bertie observes, whatever aunts are, they are not gentlemen.]]> 167 P.G. Wodehouse 0140041923 Kateryna 3 4.21 1974 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1974
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/25
date added: 2022/03/27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ocean at the End of the Lane]]> 15783514
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.]]> 181 Neil Gaiman 0062255657 Kateryna 5 4.00 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/17
date added: 2022/02/17
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I've read this book 8 years ago, in October 2013, but then lately I realized I couldn't remember anything about it except maybe a vague feeling it was scary and very Doctor Who- like. Which, considering the plot, now that it's still fresh in my mind again, makes the book even more Neil Gaiman-y. This is a very good book!
]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)]]> 483103
Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.

For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance...]]> 375 Agatha Christie 0007122594 Kateryna 3 3.81 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1929
rating: 3
read at: 2022/02/01
date added: 2022/02/02
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Agatha Christie cosplaying PG Wodehouse in a somewhat dated, but entertaining story :)
]]> The Scarlet Letter 12296 279 Nathaniel Hawthorne 0142437263 Kateryna 3 3.43 1850 The Scarlet Letter
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Kateryna
average rating: 3.43
book published: 1850
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/23
date added: 2022/01/30
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]]> <![CDATA[Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)]]> 131359
Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.� Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems…]]> 352 Agatha Christie Kateryna 3 4.13 1937 Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kateryna
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1937
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/07
date added: 2022/01/30
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