We present our list of the Top 10 Best Books of 2018. Top 10: Manuscripts from Accra (Paulo Coelho) “In life’s most significant moments we are always alone.” The year is 1099, and the Muslims, Jews, and (Coptic) Christians of Jerusalem are about to be overrun by the armies of the European Crusaders. The people…
Category: Not so geeky books (NGSB)
2018 Geek Prize List of Nominees
Best Books of 2018 Nominees A Hologram for the King Call Me By Your Name Every Last Word Ginger Kid Happy Again How to Stop Time Manuscripts from Acra Running with Lions The Silent Cry The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze They Both Die at the End Top Ten What Happened What To Say…
Death-Cast called to tell him he’s going to die today: The Geek book review of “They Both Die at the End”
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera HarperTeen, 2017 Geek Rating: Sun god worthy (4 out of 5 stars) “No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.” “What would you do if you found out you were about to die?” That was the question the author Adam Silvera apparently…
“Some of them weren’t my friends at all”: Ginger Kid book review (+ Burning Maze, Without Merit, What to Say Next)
We take a look at four books this week from Rick Riordan’s third book in The Trials of Apollo series: The Burning Maze, to Julie Buxbaum’s What to Say Next, Colleen Hoover’s crazy story Without Merit, to comedian Steve Hofstetter’ personal essay Ginger Kid. The Burning Maze Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion 2018 Geek rate: Thief worthy (2 out of…
The past resides inside the present: the geek book review of Matt Haig’s “How to Stop Time”
How to Stop Time Matt Haig Canongate, 2018 Geek Rating: Sun god worthy (4 out of 5 stars) “To cling to who I was, right at the beginning when I was just a small boy with a long name who responded to time and grew older like everybody else. But there is never a way…
The Geek book review of Kenzaburō Ōe’s Man’en Gannen no Futtoboru (万延元年のフットボール)
Man’enGannen no Futtoboru Kenzaburō Ōe First Published: 1960 Geek Rating: Mortal worthy (3 out of 5 stars) “The things you believe you really saw — the memories you’ve been constantly raking over — were nothing more than dreams all the time.” First published in 1967, Kenzaburō Ōe’s Man’enGannen no Futtoboru (titled “The Silent Cry” in…
Nevertheless She Persisted: “What Happened” book review
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon and Schuster, 2017 Geek god rating: Sky god worthy (5 out of 5 stars) “Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. We need to move on. We should already have done that like months ago. We should have done that on the night…
A Hologram for the King book review
A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers Vintage Books, 2012 Geek Rating: Helios worthy (4 out of 5 stars) Eisenberg Rating: 1,100 out of 2,000 stars “What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense…
From world news, sports, movies, TV series and books: The 2017 geek god review Year-End Wrap-up
From the stunning triumph of Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election in France, to the victory of Die Mannschaft in the Confederations Cup to the demise of the Netherlands Football Team to this year’s TV series, movies and books, we present our year-end wrap up: World News Alt-Right vs The Resistance: Paul Joseph Watson vs William…
10 Best Books of 2017: The Geek List from “Magnus Chase” to “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”
We present the Top 10 books of 2017 from “Magnus Chase” to “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”: Top 10: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead (Rick Riordan) The Magnus books are not that special compared to the other Riordan stories but what was magical about (the book)…
