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Books Which Ring for Your Curiosity
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items Everything I read and I loved.
English is not my first language, and in order to help me upgrade my language skill, so I tried to read English books.
These are the books that for me easy to digest, yet has an interesting storyline worth to dig dive...
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Julian Barnes | Love, Life, History and Memory ⏳️
Science | The Universe Against Us 🌏🌌
Classic Old Time 💃
Julian Barnes | Love, Life, History and Memory ⏳️
Fallin' love for the first time with books
I like how the writer (Barnes) turns memory into both a theme and a weapon. The narrator, Tony Webster, is so ordinary — yet through him, Barnes explores how subjective and slippery memory can be. The book shows that what we remember isn't necessaril...
The Sense of an Ending (Booker Prize Winner)
This books is a shirt, deeply felt meditation on love, loss and the nature of grief. Blending historical reflectiob, romance and personal memoir. Barnes explores how love elevates life and how loss devastates it.
The book's final chapter, in which ...
Levels of Life: A Memoir|Paperback
When I close d the book, I question inside my head - Can there be an unbiased assesment of world history? Indeed, this is one of those books that lead you to every nook and cranny of history and mythology in serach of answers.
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (Barnes & Noble)
Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius.
A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and enter...
Flaubert's Parrot|eBook
Science | The Universe Against Us 🌏🌌
The more you know, the more you don't know
Explores the history of Homo sapiens from the Stone Age to the 21st century, focusing on how biology and history shaped our species. The only parts of this book that really grabbed my attention were the chapters on early humankind, and especially the...
Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]: A Brief History of Humankind|eBook
You’ve heard “We are made of starstuff.” Want to dig deeper? This is the book for you. It has inspired generations of explorers, thinkers, stargazers, science communicators and science fiction authors — will you be next?
Cosmos|eBook
"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding question...
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry|eBook
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, ...
The Three-Body Problem (Three-Body Problem Series #1) (Hugo Award Winner)|eBook
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins ar...
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition|eBook
The story of Henrietta Lacks is a shocking, engrossing, and thought-provoking read. Skloot chronicles how scientists took Henrietta’s cells without consent, being used across the medical field for various research projects such as the polio vaccine a...
There are some books that I finish and am left in awe, questioning everything that I thought I knew on a subject. Or, as is the case hear, having learned so much about which I knew nothing. My jaw is still on the floor after I finished this book and ...
There are some books that I finish and am left in awe, questioning everything that I thought I knew on a subject. Or, as is the case hear, having learned so much about which I knew nothing. My jaw is still on the floor after I finished this book and ...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks|eBook
Classic Old Time 💃
Melancholia in a bounding papers
When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother...
Wuthering Heights|Paperback