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  • Book Review: About a Boy

    About a Boy by Nick Hornby. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. About a Boy is a simple tale about a relatively shallow man in his thirties who thinks he has everything, and a twelve year old boy who is struggling to fit into life at a new school after the separation of his parents.…

  • Book Review: Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. My rating: 1 of 5 stars. Atlas Shrugged is a behemoth of a book that doesn’t know what it is. It wants to be a novel, but it also wants to be a vehicle for Rand’s objectivist philosophy. By trying to be both, it fails to be either. For a…