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Review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Watching yourself slide down a slope, knowing it's happening, and feeling you can do nothing about it. A kind of out-of-body experience. Were this written today, it might be about Trump and called The Cable News Network. When you want to believe the worst, your mind can make up plenty of stories, given real and imagined inputs, to get you there...

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Review: A Half-Century of Conflict

A Half-Century of ConflictA Half-Century of Conflict by Francis Parkman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Seemed a bit drier than some of the earlier works. Looking forward to finishing this series off with the next one. The scalpings by the Indians continue. You really start to feel for the remote settlers.

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Orbital by Samantha Harvey My rating: 2 of 5 stars Philosophizing while on a spaceship looking out the window. May work better as an entr...