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Finished reading Rogue Protocol

Wants to read Orogeny: A Collection of Poems Created with Conceit

Rated The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution 8/10

Wants to read The Summer Prince

Finished reading All Systems Red

Finished reading Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures

Finished reading The Word for World Is Forest

Finished reading Lugar seguro

Finished reading Slaughterhouse-Five

Rated Asesinato en el Comité Central 6/10

Rated Habibi 8/10

Wants to read Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future

Rated Sanguijuela 8/10

Rated El Incal 4/10

Rated Fahrenheit 451 8/10

Reading The Heart's Invisible Furies

Finished reading Mord ohne Vorwort

Wants to read Buckeye

Finished reading Paul's Boutique

Finished reading The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

Rated The Name of the Wind 10/10

This is hands down my favorite book in the fiction section. I suggest this book to everyone, even people who have repeatedly told me that they don’t read. I read (or listen to) this book, or book two of this series, literally once a month.

This is one of those books that takes a few chapters to really hook you, so I usually forgive people for not getting into it. If you make it past the chapters that take place in Tarbean, you will be finishing the book. If you don’t make it past those chapters, then you need to try again.

This is a fantastic book about a world where magic isn’t everything it is cracked up to be, and science kind of is. If you ever wished that Harry Potter had to do more than say something in Latin just so… and then *swish and flick* just so… in order to do something magical, this is your book.

There is a whole system of “magic”, which is more “scientific” than it is anything, and is much more convincing than “Wingardium Leviosa” *flick*. The world that Rothfuss builds is one of the best fictions that I have ever stepped into.

If you don’t like this book, that is fine. If you do, welcome to one of this generation’s greatest fantasy.

Abandoned Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Rated Anaximander: And the Birth of Science 6/10

The history and science of Anaximander is fascinating, but the book lost me with some of its attempts at broader conclusions towards the end. I am not convinced the role of religion (or lack thereof) is as fundamental to Anaximander’s revolution as the author (laboriously) lays out.

Finished reading The Road

Wants to read Parable of the Sower