Thursday, April 27, 2023

Review: The Steerswoman

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 After reading Ra , I remembered that another fantasy to science fiction series of novel started with The Steerswoman . I discovered that in...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Review: Bea Wolf

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 I ran across a review of Bea Wolf somewhere on the internet, saw that it was easily available from the library, and checked it out. It dis...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Review: Astro City - Victory

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  Victory is a very different graphic novel from its predecessors. While previous Astro-City pieces focus on sideline characters in the uni...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Review: Superfreakonomics

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 I guess I never read Superfreakonomics before because it had acquired a bad reputation for its attempt to minimize the impact of global wa...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Review: Astro City - Shining Stars

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 Astro City - Shining Stars explores various themes. I especially loved its exploration of Samaritan with one of his arch-enemies. One thin...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Review: Song of the Cell

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 I read Song of the Cell hoping for more from the same author of The Emperor of All Maladies . The book was written during the pandemic, an...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Review: Astro City - Through Open Doors

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 It was many years ago when I first picked up Astro City, but for a while they stopped publishing collections, so I put it out of my mind. T...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Review: Amazon Kindle Scribe

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 Eva was telling me that she really liked her Remarkable tablet. The price for that one was $400, but I saw that Amazon had a competitor, th...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Review: Ra

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 Ra is a novel which dramatically changes its nature 3/4 of the way through the book. Since I don't really wish to spoil the book, I...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Review: Deep Secret

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 Deep Secret is Diana Wynne Jones' multiverse novel. The narrator, Rupert Venables is a Magid, a wizard who oversees multiple worlds bu...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Review: Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

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 I checked out Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach from the library on a lark, started watching the first episode and was ...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Review: How to Raise an Adult

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 How to Raise an Adult is a book about over-parenting. It's written by Julie Lythcott-Haims , who was Stanford's freshman dean, who...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Review: A half-Built Garden

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 A Half-Built Garden is science fiction, but in the rarest sub-genre, political science fiction. It's also a first contact story. It...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Review: Pixel Buds Pro

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 My 3 year old Jabra Elite 65t active were finally getting to the point where I would run out of battery during a normal workday. I thought ...
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Review: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

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 Of course I went on a Gabrielle Zevin binge, despite not really liking Young Jane Young. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds me a lot ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Review: Dispel Illusion

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 Dispel Illusion showed up as part of the Kindle Unlimited Library, so I picked it up, despite my misgivings about book 2, Limited Wish . I...

Review: The Beginning of Infinity

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 My wife bought a copy of The Beginning of Infinity , so it popped right onto my kindle and I just read it as a matter of course. I started ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Review: Neugent Cycling A422TwoX wheels

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The thing with ball bearing wheels is that I learned that I can't be bothered to overhaul them myself. While it's possible to do the...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Review: Free to Learn

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 Free to Learn is Peter Gray's indictment of the modern industrial style school. It starts with a personal story about his child rebell...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Review: Young Jane Young

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 After reading the brilliant Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow , I went back to read other Zevin books. Young Jane Young was published in...