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Wants to read Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Wants to read Can You Outsmart An Economist?: 100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain – Learn Economics Through Fun Logic and Probability Games

Wants to read The Leopard

Rated Exit Strategy 8/10

Rated Allmensch. Van middelmaat tot meesterschap 10/10

Rated Ringworld 4/10

Very good, complex worldbuilding, but terrible, one-dimensional characters and an attitude towards women and sex that made it unreadable at times. Extremely dated. The prose isn't interesting either and it's really tiring. I'm not sure if reading it to the end was worth it, probably should have thrown it out the window the third time I felt like it.
Still, some credit for the actual sci-fi stuff.

Rated The Psychology of Time Travel 6/10

<div>The concepts and premise behind this book are definitely interesting, but a few of the plot points felt unearned. I understand that time travelers are not going to have the same sort of sense of pacing that the rest of us would have, but it's the rest of us who are reading the book, and some of it — like the romances — involves at least one non-time traveling person. A sometimes impulsive one, sure, but the whole thing felt shoehorned in. The writing itself borders on excessively twee on occasion. I'm indulgent of a little of that, especially in a fantasy or sci-fi plot, but everyone's got a special twee name, and their inner monologues feel as though they are run through a thesaurus filter first.<br><br>I mean, I'm not sorry I read it, and I think the ideas behind how time travel can affect all sorts of different personalities are good ones, but I didn't love the execution.</div>

Rated Doctor Who: No More Lies 6/10

A short one, this seemed like. Decent, but nothing amazing. Worth it for the set up for another story at the end.

Wants to read How Fiction Works

Wants to read Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Rated There There 10/10

Easily one of my favorite books I've read this year.

Wants to read Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Rated Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India 8/10

Picked this book up along with a few others to provide me a snapshot of some of the culture in India (there are many!). Really enjoyed it. Dalrymple's writing is remarkable- this is the first time I've read his writing. He's able to blend a personal narratives with deep insights into the respective practices.

Wants to read Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography

Wants to read Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Rated Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension 10/10

Wants to read The Enigma of Reason

Wants to read Economic Fables

Wants to read Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Wants to read The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Wants to read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Wants to read Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Reading The God of Small Things

Wants to read Hitch 22: A Memoir

Wants to read The Liars' Club