Thursday, September 24, 2020

Review: Democracy in Chains

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 It is rare that a book takes me a full 3 weeks to read when checked out from the library. Democracy In Chains took me this long not becaus...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Review: The Night Tiger

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 Someone on Facebook recommended The Night Tiger as a novel over Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians series. I picked it up and read it over...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Review: The Calculating Stars

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 The Calculating Stars won the 2018 Nebula Award for best novel.  It postulates a world in which a meteorite strikes the Atlantic Ocean in ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Review: Mother Knows Best?

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  Mother Knows Best is a kindle freebie. It's a book about all the old wives tales (and occasional sailor's stories) that may or ma...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Review: Hacking Darwin

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 I checked out Hacking Darwin because the Amazon reviews were good. I'm lucky I didn't spend money on it and just checked it out fr...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Review: The Invention of Surgery

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I picked up The Invention of Surgery expecting a tightly focused book about surgery, but instead, what I got was a comprehensive history of...

Review: HexClad Non-stick Cookware

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 If you've ever visited Costco, you might have seen the Hexclad demo. There's a guy with the non-stick pots and pans and woks, and h...
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Thursday, September 03, 2020

Review: Tomboyland

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Tomboyland is Melissa Faliveno's collection of essays. I picked it up because of Amazon's Kindle First Reads program. These essays ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Review: Temtop M10 Air Quality Monitor

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 With the fires raging near us, I broke out all the air purifiers I bought last year during Amazon Prime Day, purchased specifically for suc...
Monday, August 31, 2020

My Covid 19 Excursion List

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With COVID19's shelter in place in effect, our vacation plans were needless to say, all cancelled. Rather than sit home and mope, I deci...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Review: Uncanny Valley

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I came across Uncanny Valley from various reviews --- as a book about Silicon Valley, you can't avoid the reviews. Anna Wiener is a dec...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Review: Takeya Cold Brew Ice Coffee Maker

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I tried StarBucks cold brew once and wasn't impressed. It felt like an excuse to serve you watered down coffee by dumping lots of ice in...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Review: Achtung Baby

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Ever since Pam Druckerman wrote Bringing up Bebe, there's been an increasing number of books discussing how parenting happens in other ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Review: Sex and Vanity

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By now, you know what to expect from a Kevin Kwan novel: lots of footnotes, attention to the details of the lives of the ultra-wealthy, and ...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Review: Topeak Smart Guage D2

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I've been making do with the gauge on various pumps in the house for ages, and relying on feel to decide how high to pump up the tires. ...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Review: How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm

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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm is a parenting book about different cultures approach certain areas of parenting. It's an intriguing...
Monday, August 03, 2020

Review: Snow, Glass Apples

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Snow, Glass, Apples is a Neil Gaiman's re-interpretation of the snow white fairy tale. Gorgeously illustrated by Colleen Doran, it'...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review: The Road

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I finally tried reading The Road again, this time keeping in mind that it was one of the inspirations for The Last of Us . It's a surpr...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Review: Lock Laces

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I'm not one of those people who believes in shoe laces. I gave up on them several years ago when I switched to shoes that didn't nee...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Review: Swearing is Good For You

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Swearing is Good For You is Emma Byrne's debut book about the research and science behind swearing. It turns out that Byrne is actually...