books i read in 2020 (part 2 of 5)

Eh

These are the ones that were forgettable, missed their emotional mark, or didn’t have much to say.

The Boilerplate Rhino, David Quammen: Essays about environmental biology. You’ll learn some interesting facts and then promptly forget them.

Wind, Sand, and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Honestly, my main problem with this book was that my copy had a lot of typos; I think the press was shady. The stories are okay, it’s well-written enough but… I just wanted it to be The Little Prince.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjala: Fun summer reading!

House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday: Alcoholic Native American dude fucks up his life and watches his culture die. There were a couple beautiful paragraphs, but it was mostly just depressing.

The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten: A love letter to food that’s about 200 pages too long.

Mrs. Moneypenny’s Career Advice for Ambitious Women: Honestly, kind of adorable, and there’s some decent advice in there. Haha god, if I were a dude, that would be such a condescending thing to say.