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Katie Lawrence (1 KP) rated Death's Mistress in Books

Oct 12, 2017

Death's Mistress

Terry Goodkind | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

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While this book completely breaks off from Richard and Kahlan and delves into Nicci and Nathan, it does have some of the overused plot lines that have existed throughout the series. I would highly recommend this book as it is much more refreshing than the last couple of books but can be difficult to follow.

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Oct 12, 2017

Never in history have so many diverse books from the Nordic nations been translated, and in the last five years in the UK and the USA the list has been growing.

There should be something here for every boreal-minded reader to cherish in the coming winter.

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The Guardian's Best Nordic Books

As a year-long festival celebrating the region’s writers gets under way in the UK, Icelandic novelist Sjón selects essential reading from the far north.

Inside Voices, Outside Light

Sigurður Pálsson and Martin Regal

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This book presents poems from Palsson's ten collections written between 1980-2008. Swirling with...

Poetry

The Gravity of Love

Deborah Bragan-Turner and Sara Stridsberg

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"I'll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim -...

Fiction

The Tower at the Edge of the World

William Heinesen and Glyn Jones

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The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is...

Fiction

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Dorthe Nors

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Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's...

Fiction

Crimson

Niviaq Korneliussen and Anna Halager

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This is the story of a group of friends, on the cusp of adulthood, exploring life, seeking...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed the World in Books

Oct 12, 2017

Clearly, we only know a fraction of our minds

We know that the field of behavioral economics is a kind of the wild west of the sciences, filled with speculation, outlaws, and not a little shenanigans. And yet it is by far one of the most fascinating and controversial sciences on the popular stage.

This story is almost like a love affair between two visionary scholars, Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky. Their shared admiration and respect for one another, and opposite personalities, led them across the world from Israel, in the pursuit for knowledge.

The author notes the halo effect in which people see favourable attributes and let that impression impact the assessment of other attributes. Kahneman and Tversky later refer to this as Representativeness involving premature characterisation of an object or an individual.

While this is less plot driven than the author's other works The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short, it is still an endearing tale.