Category: Book Review: Non-Fiction
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Small Pleasures
“Never before had she considered that all these experiences that had nearly demolished her had built her into something better.”
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The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism
“Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained.”
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Staggering Hubris: The Memoir Of Boris Johnson’s Most Classic Spad: The ‘Rona Years, Vol. 1
“2019 was a year to celebrate! We overcame Corbyn and his Bolshevik revolution and successfully duped the northerners into thinking we care about them (lol) to win an enormous election victory; Brexit is in the oven/defrosting/ready to be put in the microwave at some point and we have Boris at the helm.”
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
“Make a place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to the imagination.”
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
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Wow, No Thank You
“Hello, 911? I’ve been lying awake for an hour each night, reliving a two-second awkward experience I had in front of a casual acquaintance three years ago, for eight months.”
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Ayoade On Top
“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”
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Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism
“Leaving women out of the story isn’t a simple slip-up. It is a consequence of a world that tells us they just aren’t quite as important.”
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How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: Essays on Modern Life
“In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.”
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