I loved the stories, but I wanted more in the way of an explanation for most of them. Some were so strange that I wanted to know the significance. Why was this story included?
Overall, it is a great collection, though.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

The Peripheral by William Gibson

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challenging

2.0

Quick Review: Not a fan. I was confused... maybe it's just not my kind of sci-fi. I had hoped the book would shed more light on the tv show, but it was an entirely different story.

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Quick Review: This book was beautiful and ended up being more than I expected it to me. I left it feeling hopeful and encouraged that we can do better in this world. I want more people like this!

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

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challenging reflective

4.0

Quick review: This is my second read of Swann's Way. It's beautiful, rambling and so beautiful. The descriptions of places and people, feelings... I love it.

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Quick Review: Finished this book with my heart racing and my mind feeling as if the universe were expanding into infinity and my self was riding it, knowing exactly my part in the whole. I'll never see the world the same way again.

Replay by Ken Grimwood

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adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Quick Review: THAT was not what I expected at all. Wow, what a ride!

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