Thursday, May 29, 2025

Review: The Adventures of Mary Darling

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 The Adventures of Mary Darling is a mash up of Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes. If you don't remember Mary Darling, it's because she...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Review: The Power Broker

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 After reading Robert Caro's series on Lyndon Johnson, I bought (through audible) the audiobook version of The Power Broker , which is h...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Reread: Exhalation

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  I recently got a chance to see Ted Chiang in person at SJSU. He was great, and it triggered me to re-read Exhalation . One of the big them...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Review: The Shape of a Life

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 The Shape of a Life is the autobiography of Shing-Tung Yau , ghost-written by Steven Nadis, since Yau is not a native English speaker and ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Review: The King's Peace

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 All the reviews of The King's Peace mentioned that it was an Arthurian retelling. It's also Jo Walton's first novel, and it sh...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

Review: The Thinking Machine

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 The Thinking Machine is a biography of Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, and a chronicle of the company he led through founding to becoming ...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Pigeon Point Overnight 2025

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Day 1 GPS Track Day 2 GPS Track Mark Brody's Pictures Arturo's Pictures We tried to visit Pigeon Point earlier this year, but a bout...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Review: Stronger

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Stronger is a badly written book about an important topic. The book's subtitle promises to tell you everything about muscles and streng...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Review: Abundance

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  Abundance is Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book about what they called supply-side liberalism. It's an indictment of the system...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

How to buy digital editions of my books

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 I finally noticed that the website hosting the purchase links for digital editions of my books went dead. ( No thanks to Google ) I've ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: Normal People

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 I don't know how Normal People made it into my borrow list from the library, but when it showed up I read it and found it easily reada...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: Careless People

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 Careless People is Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir of her time at Facebook as Manager of Global Policy, a position she herself created and...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Review: Why Your Bike Is Made in Asia

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 Why Your Bike Is Made in Asia is Bill McGann's memoir of his career first as a bike shop owner, then as a wholesale distributor (Torel...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Review: Rethinking Diabetes

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 Rethinking Diabetes is about the history of diabetic treatment, and the various back-and-forths about diet for diabetic patients over the ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Reread: Outlive

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  Outlive was onsale for $2 on the Kindle so I bought it and read it again. I keep being surprised at how detailed this book is, with a dee...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Review: Silca SuperPista Digital Floor Pump

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 There was a sale on the SuperPista Digital Floor Pump. While I had a perfectly operational pump, the idea of a pump with a gauge that was ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Review: Soldier Son Trilogy

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Soldier Son Trilogy  was on sale for a low price, so I bought it since Robin Hobb had a good reputation Narrated from a first person point o...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Review: Zatanna

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  Zatana was billed as being written by Paul Dini, and she was one of the surviving members of DC universe's magic community after Alan...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Review: Worlds

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 I remember being at a Worldcon where a group of writers talked about fiction vs non-fiction. They asserted that since they wrote fiction, t...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Review: Batman/Catwoman

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 Batman/Catwoman was on sale at a reasonable price, and I bought it hoping that it would be a great graphic novel. (Tom King's gotten m...