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Le monde selon Amazon by Benoît Berthelot
2019, Le Cherche Midi, Paris (The world according to Amazon). Not available in English. So read on! I bought this book at the Gare du...

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Mar 2, 20204 min read


The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson
2016, Harper I found this book in my daughter’s apartment, peeking out of her roomate's shelf in the room I was borrowing. I hadn’t...

kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20202 min read


The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k by Sarah Knight
2015, Quercus Editions Ltd, London How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do...

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Feb 17, 20202 min read


Ce que je peux enfin vous dire by Ségolène Royal
2018, Fayard In Ce que je peux enfin vous dire (What I can finally tell you), which I bought in the supermarket over a year ago,...

kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20203 min read


“I feel bad for books” inspired by Dylan Rigal
2020, nopublisher A non-book post Yesterday I was talking with Dylan on the phone and he surprised me by saying he’d actually started...

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Jan 27, 20203 min read


Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
2013, Scribner France: Zéro Déchet, 2013, Editions des Arènes Bea Johnson is a French woman living in the USA. She and her family have...

kelliebooksblog
Jan 20, 20202 min read


The Female Brain by Dr Louann Brizendine
2006, Morgan Read Books Are men stronger than women? Some say obviously, others say no way! Michelle Wolf in her stand-up on Netflix...

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Jan 20, 20202 min read


Idiss by Robert Badinter
2018, Librairie Arthème Fayard Not available in English Welcome to 2020. Here's my first post of the year. Some of my readers wish I...

kelliebooksblog
Jan 6, 20205 min read


Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
2019, Macmillan I highly recommend this book about how our personal data is processed, stored, and made available to governments and...

kelliebooksblog
Dec 9, 20196 min read


Un jour, j'irai là by Jacqueline Zuinghedau
L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006 While in her 80s, my husband’s great aunt wrote this book about surviving and surpassing a strict religious...

kelliebooksblog
Dec 2, 20194 min read


A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Crown Publishers, 2016 A Mother’s Reckoning is written by the mother of Dylan Klebold who, along with...

kelliebooksblog
Nov 19, 20193 min read


Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions 2018, Bloomsbury Circus If you have ever been down, or felt lost,...

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Oct 22, 20193 min read


Les passeurs de livres de Daraya by Delphine Minoui
Editions du Seuil, 2017 Marie-Aimée told me about this non-fiction book one day while we were having lunch together. The story sounded...

kelliebooksblog
Oct 14, 20193 min read


Retour à Birkenau by Ginette Kolinka
Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 2019 Ginette Kolinka, 94, was deported to Birkenau from France in 1944. She never spoke of her...

kelliebooksblog
Oct 7, 20191 min read


Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Stories from a South African Childhood 2016, Speigel & Grau I just finished reading this book (summer vacation 2019 book 2) one minute...

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Sep 3, 20192 min read


The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so. I'll add more content later.

kelliebooksblog
Jun 24, 20191 min read


Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
Granta Publications, 2014 Essays dealing with relationships between men and women, wherein women are still getting shafted but there's...

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Apr 14, 20191 min read


In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
Published 1935 My copy Routledge Classics 2006 (given to Max for his birthday however) Introduction copyright 1996 Howard Woodhouse This...

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Apr 14, 20196 min read


Becoming by Michelle Obama
Penguin Random House, 2018 I just finished Obama’s book and was surprised to find it was one of those books which make you feel sad it’s...

kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20193 min read


The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume 3 (1944-1969)
Volume 3 Simon and Schuster 1969 This third and last volume of Bertrand Russell’s autobiography covers the last two decades of Russell's...

kelliebooksblog
Apr 14, 20194 min read

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