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Rated Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 5 8/10

Finished reading Hangman

Finished reading Read Between the Lines

Wants to read Unbought And Unbossed

Rated La chambre des merveilles 9/10

Rated River of Teeth 10/10

YES! This book OMG. Loved it. It is a western, but with hippos. That is just it. A crew of awesome people is organizing a caper, ow no "it is not a caper, it is an operation". Interesting stories that weave into each other, a bit like a farce but thrilling and engaging, rather than slapstick funny.

Rated De elementen 6/10

Wants to read A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

Wants to read Monsters of Ohio

Wants to read Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Reading The Light of Other Days

Finished reading Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

Finished reading Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design

Rated A Closed and Common Orbit 10/10

This book gave me an emotional reset the same way watching Fleabag impacted me. When I think about this book, I tear up. Both characters this book focusses on have a very unique experience with loneliness, family and friendship. The way Lovelace adapts to her new body and how she describes experiences like eating has stuck with me ever since I read this book. It's just beautiful. As for Pepper, I can't describe how much her story touched me without spoilers, so just trust me bro.

Rated Gideon the Ninth 8/10

Added Weird Fucks to Want to Read

Added Andar por andar (Serie ENDEBATE) to Read Books

Rated On the Calculation of Volume I 8/10

Rated Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West 8/10

I would not say that I'm a rodeo fan, but I do live in a place where it happens, so I am loosely aware of what it entails. That said, a good writer (or writers, in this case) can make any subject compelling, and that's what Wolman and Smith have done here. I didn't know anything about Hawaiian paniolos/cowboys, and it was interesting to read about how they are different from their continental counterparts, plus the related history of the islands that created the job. The book is also a fair bit about Wyoming and their Frontier Days festival, where the paniolos would eventually compete, and I appreciated that the authors did not gloss over the difficult history of the displaced native tribes.

Finished reading Ragdoll

Rated Beacon 23 4/10

Howley's weakest book I read so far. The setting is compelling, a man, along in a lighthouse in space. The story is interesting too, weird things happen in the lighthouse and there is a war, from which our hero tried to escape by taking up the post in the lighthouse. But the pace is off, it is nothing like the slumbering, creeping narrative of Wool, or the fast pace of Molly Fyde. Stuff happens, but it does not really build up on other events, and the ending comes quick and unanticipated. Disappointing.

Rated The Silent Patient 6/10

Read this in a weekend on old fashioned paper! Really engaging but the ending is a bit so-so.

Added Lost in the Summer of '69 to Currently Reading

Rated Strangers on a Train 8/10

This book is weird! I mean the book can't help it, but it all feels so 'tropey' the train thing but of course this book is the original one. It was a long read, and boring here and there, I am sure I would have not been able to finish it as a paper book, but in audio it was good (read by Bronson Pinchot on Audible with some good voice work). The way the characters interact is really well-designed, you understand the needs of the both of them (being friends/loved versus being left alone) really well.

Wants to read Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture