This books was recommended to me by one of my teachers at university and I really liked it! Inspired by Voltaire’s Candide, Steven Lukes combines theory and fiction to explore complex but nonetheless important political and social concepts. The main character, Nicholas Caritat is a professor of the Enlightenment who is sent on a mission …
Continue reading The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat – Steven Lukes
Science-Fiction pick of the day! Imagine that you had the opportunity to leave our technology-driven world for a more fulfilling life on another planet. This is the journey our main character Iris undertakes. Tired of the surface, shallow bonds she has, the hegemony of social media and all the screen-staring it entails, her boring job …
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A very special book. When All is said is one of those books that profoundly moves you until you have no choice but to become attached to the characters. Anne Griffin tells the story of an old man named Maurice, who raises a toast to the five people who meant the most to him throughout …
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A wonderful ode to self-discovery that I cherished until the very last page. Gilbert's talent for storytelling blew me away once more, making her other books climb up my pile of books on my shelf. The story starts with a narration of Elizabeth's extremely hard divorce which led her to desperately turn to God for …
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