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Tag: Christopher Hitchens

Books for the Lockdown – Moving Gems

On April 27, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

Welcome to week six! I hope you are all still safe and healthy. After last week's relatively depressing fare I wanted to treat you this week to some of the most moving books I've read since I started writing this blog. Some of them are funny, others full of hope, yet others are tragic. What …

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Top 17 of 2017

On December 26, 2017December 26, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

I hope you all had wonderful Christmas, that you managed to find time to relax, breathe and think, but also to be, fully consciously be, with your family and with yourselves. I have a feeling I'm late to the party on this one, or at least cutting it very fine, but here's my list of …

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Letters to a Young Contrarian – Christopher Hitchens

On June 15, 2017June 11, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

It is a short book, so I'll keep my review short too. The length of the book does not make it any less important. Hitchens writes a series of letters to an imaginary young contrarian, explaining what it means to him to be a free-thinking rebel. He is extremely full of himself, overly confident to …

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