Fields of Blood (2014) by Karen Armstrong & Is Religion the Cause of All Major Wars?
A compendium of history, politics and religion since the dawn of the agrarian age in human civilization.
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Go Set a Watchman (2015) by Harper Lee & the Death of a Beloved Hero
“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”
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Oracle Bones (2006) by Peter Hessler & the Tears of Regret for the Poet Chen Mengjia
“Recovery, in all its varied forms, is simply a human instinct.”
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River Town (2001) by Peter Hessler & the Imperialist vs the Poet
“To travel through Sichuan countryside is to feel the history, the years of work that have shaped the land, the sheer weight of humanity on patches of earth that have been worked in the same way for centuries.”
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On the Art of Writing (1916) by Arthur Quiller-Couch & the Dark Age of Lord Coke
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”
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Haroun and Luka (2013) by Salman Rushdie & the Great Storytelling Animal
“There are places in the world where nothing ever happens, and Time stops moving altogether.”
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Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson & the Hope of Saving the Planet
In “Rivers of Death” Carson continues the onslaught of scientific facts which illustrate how pesticides and insecticides not only destroy the land but how they also contaminate water supplies, indirectly poisoning human beings.
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