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J. S. Foer: Here I Am (Paperback, 2016, Penguin Random House UK) 4 stars

Review of 'Here I Am' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Beautiful and sad.

A little too awkwardly sexually graphic at points. For example, I could have done without the lengthy, lengthy, lengthy description of all the creative ways the adolescent boy discovered to masturbate himself.

Mari Andrew: Am I there yet? (Hardcover, 2018, Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony) 2 stars

This on-point guide to growing up by Instagram sensation Mari Andrew captures the feelings and …

Review of 'Am I there yet?' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I went through and read all the comics and thought they were cute, but I couldn't connect with any of the essays. They read like personal diary or travel journal entries, and just weren't that interesting.

I think I would have found the essays much more interesting if I was in my 20s. I think I would have found them worldly and inspirational if I was in college or in my teens.

reviewed The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Harbrace paperbound library -- HPL 30)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The little prince (1971, Harcourt, Brace & World) 3 stars

Le Petit Prince est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. …

Review of 'The little prince' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

it was okay.

My primary interest in this work is how universally translated it is. I'm almost to the level in my Spanish studies where I can tackle it.

I have it in toki pona but never finished it due to the unique difficulties of drawing any kind of objective, concrete meaning from any toki pona text. And I never actually read the English version until now.

So there's that. I look forward to reading this sorta okay story in Spanish later.

reviewed Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Giunti classics)

William Shakespeare: Hamlet (2001, Giunti) 4 stars

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder …

Review of 'Hamlet' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Nostalgic re-read. I remember reading this as it was being created, waiting for new updates to show up in my RSS reader.

Why I picked it up

First of all, this was hard to pick up! First of all, it's kind of hard to google "What was the name of that 'great' webcomic about ramen?" Secondly, the website is down. Luckily, all the material was preserved by archive.org's Wayback Machine, so I was able to download it and make a CBZ to read on my iPad.

I thought about it initially because I just finished Good to Great, and thinking about greatness in general, I remembered Mr. Phipps and how much I enjoyed this story. It was shorter overall than I remembered, but it was still really good.

What I want to remember

  • I still really like how the characters age and change over the course of the story. …