Thursday, February 27, 2020

Review: Beat Saber (PSVR)

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I usually have a rule about finishing a game before I write a review, but I'll make an exception for Beat Saber.  The game's been ar...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Review: Words on the Move

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After reading Bill Bryson's lackluster book about English, I reflected that John McWhorter's audible series about human language w...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Review: Nimona

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I clicked through the sample of Nimona , and found myself enjoying it enough to keep reading, so I checked it out of the library and read it...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Review: Invisible Influence

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Invisible Influence is the a book about social pressure, and how peers and friends influence us. Many of the examples in the book are proba...

Review: Resmed Airfit N30

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I bought the newly introduced Resmed Airfit N30 from Lofta because they offered a 30 day money-back guarantee, and because they had a decen...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Review: The Names of the Dead

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The Names of the Dead is a shallow, made for Hollywood story. The plot is predictable, the characters stereotypical, and even the places an...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Review: The Fifth Risk

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I bounced off The Fifth Risk the first time I tried to read it. The opening always made me depressed and sad, since it was obvious to me th...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Review: The Mother Tongue

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After reading The Body , I set off to read another Bill Bryson book, and found The Mother Tongue. Having bounced off several other books abo...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Review: Super Graphic - A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe

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Super Graphic is designed by Tim Leong, who was the Director of Digital Design at Wired Magazine. It's not a book about super-heroes --...
Monday, February 03, 2020

Review: Gut - The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

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Gut is a strange book. The author, Giulia Enders has a fun sense of humor (I guess that's what it takes to be a gastroenterologist): ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Review: The Body - A Guide for Occupants

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I've bounced of a number of other Bill Bryson books before, so I approached The Body with low expectations. To my surprise I found myse...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Review: Superior Spider-Man

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I picked up Superior Spider-Man from Comixology Unlimited after reading the first issue, which posted a heck of a fun premise: Doctor Octop...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Review: Zero G

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Zero G is an Audible-exclusive radio play written by Dan Wells. It's clearly intended for a younger audience (the protagonist is 10), bu...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Review: Specialized BG Sport Full Finger Gloves

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I'd poked holes through every finger of my old long-fingered gloves, Specialized BG gloves have always fitted me quite well, though they...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Review: Judge Dredd Year One

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Judge Dredd is pretty much of relevance only to those who grew up in the English colonies, with regular access to the weekly newsprint comic...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Reread: Saga of the Swamp Thing Books 2-6

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After reading Swamp Thing Vol 1, I realized that I'd never actually read the entire Alan Moore run of the Swamp Thing in one go, so I s...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Review: What Doesn't Kill Us

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What Doesn't Kill Us  suffers from a fundamental problem with science as explained by English majors, which is that the plural of anecdo...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Review: Did you just eat that?

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You've probably heard of the 5-second rule, or the story the electric hand dryers spew germs all over the bathroom. Did you just eat tha...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Reread: Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 1

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The thing with reading a lot of comic books is that after a while you realize that none of them can hold a candle to Alan Moore's work, ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Review: The True Queen

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The True Queen is a sequel to Sorceror to the Crown. The events in this novel take place after the events of Zen Cho's earlier novel, b...