I like this non-American perspective in a spy novel.
I have read:
My list of what I've read. Everything goes in here, even the embarrasing stuff. That way I, (hopefully), don't get duplicates as gifts, and eventually I can be proud of my long list.
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
The Danish Way of Parenting
Cougar Annie’s Garden
Alternative title: homesteading against all odds.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The portrayal of “imaginary” things, (like religions, countries, and corporations), that we sapiens use to organize ourselves made me smile every time it came up.
Some words I learned:
perdition: eternal damnation
indolent: lazy
polity: an organized society, State, (OED’s 2nd definition).
As money brings down the dams of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace.
from the chapter “The Scent of Money”
No Oxford comma. Hmmm.
