Thursday, October 29, 2020

Review: The Awakened Kingdom

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 I didn't realize that there was a novella called The Awakened Kingdom  in The Inheritance Trilogy (which I reviewed: The Hundred Thousa...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Review: The Paper Magician

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 The Paper Magician is available to read for free if you're a Prime member, I checked it out, and to my surprised found myself enjoying...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Review: Spellbreaker

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  Spellbreaker is set in preindustrial London, in a mythic world where magic exists and is used by everybody, with prices set by markets. Th...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Review: Physics of the Impossible

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 I checked out Physics of the Impossible from the library, not noticing that it was incredibly dated. The book was written 12 years ago, bu...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Review: Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Chaos

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  Complexity purports to be a book about the science and math of emergence. In reality, it actually is an account of the history and foundin...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Review: Blood and Truth (PSVR)

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 I got the PSVR several years ago, but until recently never got around to actually finishing a game on it. Part of it is that the medium do...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

Review: Garmin Varia UT800 Urban Edition

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 My light selection from 2017 is no longer in stock on Amazon, just as the battery (which is soldered to the motherboard on the device) is ...
Monday, October 05, 2020

Review: Jetboil Flash Camping and Backpacking Stove

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 For many years, I've been using the cheapest stove I could find on Amazon . The $12 specials are nothing special, but they're light...
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Thursday, October 01, 2020

20 Lakes Basin/Hummingbird Lake Trip

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 The labor day forecast was for 100 degree+ weather in the Bay Area and bad air quality. Arturo had suggested Leavitt Meadows, but a look at...
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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...