hilbertscurve's reviews
207 reviews

Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation by Christopher Kemp

3.5

Good mix of accessibility and scientific details but could’ve been better organized

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

3.0

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

1.5

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

4.0

Thank god I’m never climbing Mt. Everest

The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook

2.5

The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim

3.0

The River by Peter Heller

3.5

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

2.0

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

3.5

Much to unpack here. Probably could have cut like 100 pages of high school tedium.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, Violence, and Murder

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

2.5

Wish there had been more sociological/psychological discussion and fewer transcripts of gchats