Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Review: Ultimate High

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 Arley Lewis recommended Ultimate High as the opposite of incompetence literature. It's an account of Goran Kropp's  trip to climb ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Review: What We Owe The Future

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 When I first heard about What We Owe The Future , I thought that longtermism would be easy to explain and the book wouldn't have much t...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Review: Politics is for Power

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 Politics is for Power is an indictment of something I've been guilty of: treating politics the way sports fans treat sports, reading a...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Review: Lovers Quarrel

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 Lovers Quarrel is an Astro City story arc focused on Quarrel and Crackerjack. Earlier volumes have established Crackerjack as a blowhard, b...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Review: The Language of Power

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 The Language of Power  is the most recent novel in Rosemary Kirstein's series about a medieval society set in a science fiction world. ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Rivendell Roadini 1000 mile review

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 1000 miles should be enough to review a bicycle, even one as flexible and multi-use as the Rivendell Roadini . I started with it configured...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

Review: Astro City - Private Lives

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 Private Lives returns to the formula that I love about Astro City --- instead of focusing on superheroes, the stories revolves around the ...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Review: The Lost Steersman

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 The Lost Steersman is the 3rd book in Rosemary Kirstein's fantasy series in a medieval world that's really a far future science fi...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Review: Life is Strange - True Colors

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 I kept intending to play Life is Strange: True Color s, but what tipped me over was seeing it at the library and checking it out. It took m...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Review: The Outskirter's Secret

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 After reading The Steerswoman , I immediately bought The Outskirter's Secret to continue the story. The story proceeds slowly, with sl...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Review: The Phantom Tollbooth

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 I got bored with reading The Sword in the Stone to Boen, so midway through I checked out The Phantom Tollbooth from the library and starte...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Review: Witch Hat Atelier 1-10

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 I picked up Witch Hat Atelier while browsing the kindle unlimited store. As usual, only issue #1 is available, hoping to entice you to buy...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Review: The Sword in the Stone

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 I thought I'd read The Sword in the Stone before as a kid, so when Boen wanted bed time reading I started reading it to him.  It turns...
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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