Book Review: I Never Met A Straight Line I Didn’t Like
June 24, 2024
It has a refined design with great photographs, with exposed beams and interesting combinations of textures and materials.
It has a refined design with great photographs, with exposed beams and interesting combinations of textures and materials.
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Touching on the importance of each fascinating creature, this book serves as a glorious reminder of how truly unique our ecosystem is.
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This is a cracking good read – even for those with no previous interest in maritime history. Also, how did they keep their record books dry?!
Billed as a memoir but reads easily as a collection of essays on lived experiences, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Covering the history, manufacture, origins and traditional uses of rare and enigmatic fabrics, this book is a love letter to textiles.
The uncomplicated writing and interesting subject matter had me wishing that the book was longer just so I could keep reading!
Thought-provoking and intriguing, you may have to re-read to grasp his point but this only makes the eventual realization all the better.
This book stresses the role that we can play in the climate crisis as consumers and introduces some exciting new alternatives…
Nici is real and generous, and her recipes are varied, simple and delicious. These recipes are designed for one, but can easily be modified.
A collection of prose essays, but the spacing and structure seemed designed to slow the reader into appreciating the rich, evocative language.
This book provides the reader with a deeply personal account Orwell’s time as a soldier, which would radically influence his later works.
An incredibly important collection of poignant essays which translate individual experiences within unimaginable circumstances.
The breadth of this book is so vast that it would seem impossible to condense it to just under 300 pages, yet somehow Hari does it.
An often frantic, regularly profound, and deeply heartbreaking coming of age memoir focuses on Hua and his friendship with Ken.
Written by the pioneer of the newly-coined ‘trap feminism’, Sesali Bowen, this book tells her lived experience as a fat, black, queer women.
Feral gives the layman like me the tools to better understand our screwed-up systems and how to solve them.
Ypi’s unique style of writing makes for an entertaining read, that conveys the power of indoctrination in an Albania dominated by Marxism.