Rated How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World 10/10
love this. very thoughtfully done and lays out a theory of infrastructure as both care and freedom. Practical and informative, but with ideas, too.
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Rated I Have Some Questions for You 8/10
very compelling, pretty bleak. didn’t grab my entire heart like GREAT BELIEVERS but very well done.
Rated A Gentleman in Moscow 10/10
I love my friend the Count and his found family
Rated Digging Stars 8/10
not a knockout like HOUSE OF STONE, maybe feels a little loose, but a compelling and interesting read - especially how it puts you inside the perspective of a Zimbabwean for whom American political/racial dynamics are somewhat opaque.
Rated Heads of the Colored People 8/10
A brief and clever collection of stories, loosely connected by characters, geography and theme - many of them about Black protagonists navigating relationships with other Black people in both Black and white social milieus. Engaging and well-executed.
Finished reading Pattern Recognition
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Rated Devil House 8/10
a little bit less than the sum of its parts, but compelling and well-written
Wants to read Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Rated The Cartographers 8/10
enjoyable, but takes a long time to get where it’s going.
Rated Iron and Magic 10/10
My first book by Ilona Andrews, after reading a recommendation in The Reactor. Amazon had indicated it was a one-off, without any indication it was related to the Kate Daniels series. I can already feel my bank account wincing.
Rated Of Mice and Men 9/10
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Wants to read Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Rated A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? 10/10
terrific, and necessary. as part of their eventual tribunals Musk and Bezos will need to do a book report on this.
Rated Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues 8/10
For a relatively slim book, this really packs in a lot of information. Between my biology background and always having had an interest in anthropology, archaeology, and history, this book was right in my wheelhouse. There's a lot I learned about times I generally knew about, but this book covers specifics. I think most know that in the past before the understanding of germ theory a lot of cultures were less than sanitary, but the added points of interest were always the connections made to how massive amounts of disease and death created "opportunities" for turning points in history. That's what kept me turning the pages even as my eyes wanted to shut because it was my bedtime. I recommend this book if you're into the above mentioned subjects for a thought provoking read.
Rated Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection 10/10
wonderful. heavy subject but a light read - it's brief, but dense with both emotionally rich storytelling and fascinating detail.
Rated Women & Power: A Manifesto 8/10
Two good, brief essays on the titular subject by a terrific historian who uses her knowledge of Ancient Rome to inform her perspective.