Reviewed Whole Earth Discipline By Brand Stewart
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Finished reading The Necessity of Stars
Finished reading The Return of the King
Rated Man, Underground 4/10
<div>The story had its nice moments and a fair amount of humor, but I didn't overly care for this. I get what Hummel was doing — revealing information about both characters gradually, mirroring the way they are shedding their accumulated defenses — but if I wanted to have an older dude snobbily pontificate about music and culture, well... I only have to dust off the memories. At times, characters speak in monologues, not in dialogue people might actually say, near-perfect SAT score or not.<br><br>Besides, wouldn't a music snob know that Nico is spelled with only one c?<br><br>Also: Men Be Normal Writing About Women Challenge<br><br>(Apparently, Difficulty: Near Insurmountable)</div>
Finished reading Owlish
Finished reading Digging Stars
Finished reading Annihilation
Rated May God Forgive 10/10
<div>This is probably my favorite noir series, so 5 stars is overcooking things a smidge, but I don't care. Compelling characters, a plot you're not figuring out right away, and a real sense of place.</div>
Reviewed Finite and Infinite Games
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Reviewed Summary & Study Guide Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
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Wants to read Dead Astronauts
Finished reading Shadows of the Short Days
Finished reading The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Wants to read Water Moon
Rated Mistake 6/10
<i>Mistake</i> very much mimics the chaos of a noisy brain attempting to process some major life event.It's a volume I will likely reread once more, as now I feel compelled to better understand. Even flipping through for the purpose of reviewing, after reading it twice, I already notice more about what is happening on the page. I wouldn't say I loved <i>Mistake</i>, but I liked the challenge, and anything that makes me want to revisit it is probably a good thing. Students of poetry, I would certainly recommend doing the same.<br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/12/mistake-by-meredith-stricker.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day 8/10
I liked this, but especially the second to last (and the longest) story, set in a mall-as-civilization with magic.
Wants to read McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets
Rated Menewood 10/10
<div>So good, I mostly didn't mind heaving a 700 page hardcover. Beautifully written. What a feat.</div>
Finished reading Witch King
Reviewed On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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Finished reading Cat’s Cradle
Finished reading The Martian
Wants to read Slaughterhouse-Five
Reviewed Anthem
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