transtwill's reviews
554 reviews

The Lost Boys of Montauk

Amanda M. Fairbanks

3.25

informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

John Strausbaugh

4.25

informative fast-paced

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

DID NOT FINISH: 15%

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i don’t read memoirs, i find them tedious, there’s entirely too much of the author and too little cut and dry history for my taste

Shootdown: Flight 007 and the American Connection

Richard William Johnson

3.5

informative medium-paced

Breaking Twitter

Ben Mezrich

3.5

informative medium-paced

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

4.75

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

Sara Vladic, Lynn Vincent

4.25

informative medium-paced

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

T.S. Eliot

3.0

reflective slow-paced

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i enjoyed “The Waste Land” and “The Hollow Men” but everything else was a mixed bag. he seems particularly found of heavy word/phrase repetition in some poems which,,, i’m sure someone likes but i personally just found tedious.

A Mountain in the Wind: An Exploration of the Spirituality of John Denver

Christine Smith

3.75

fast-paced

The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

Matthew J. Davenport

3.75

informative medium-paced