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Rated Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area 6/10

Wants to read MOX

Wants to read Lithium

Wants to read Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest

Wants to read Apple: The First 50 Years

Wants to read Corpus

Finished reading Crime and Punishment

Wants to read A Prince and a Spy

Wants to read Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

Wants to read There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE

Wants to read Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Wants to read There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Wants to read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Wants to read Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer

Wants to read Mistborn: The Final Empire

Wants to read The Crocodile and Other Tales

Wants to read Night Watch

Wants to read Culpability

Rated For We Are Many 6/10

As fast-paced and engaging as the first book in the series, but still felt shallow. Some plotlines stood out more than others, especially the longer, more emotional ones. Enjoyable overall, though I wish there was more depth to the character arcs and themes.<br/><br/>Full review: https://puf.io/books/for-we-are-many---dennis-e.-taylor/<br/>All my reviews: https://puf.io/books/

Rated Unity 8/10

I thoroughly enjoyed this book in the series, and by now consider these Awaken Online side quest books a must-read as they deepen out the character arcs and provide immersive side stories.<br/><br/>The repeated “sickening pop” that I complained about in my review of book #4 hardly occurs in this book, so yay for that too. With Frank’s character now having reached a godly level in the game too - I remain a bit fearful for the further developments in the main story arc.<br/><br/>Full review: https://puf.io/books/unity-awaken-online-4.5----travis-bagwell-/

Wants to read Think Weirder Volume 1: The Year's Best Science Fiction Ideas

Wants to read The Computers That Made Britain

Rated Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It 8/10

The book explains how four decades of ignoring monopolies resulted in a few horribly broken two-sided marketplaces, and how the incredibly broken copyright law (DMCA section 1201) that has been rolled out across most of the world has made it really hard for us to fix it. Yeah... all pretty depressing, although Cory gives plenty of concrete examples to allow you to channel your anger at the situation at specific players. I guess there's a reason the poop emoji on the cover is swearing. 💩🤬<br/><br/>The last part of the book takes a more optimistic look at what we individually and (mostly) as a society can do to claim back control of our digital and physical commons. It turns out that the small, often quite local, victories in right-to-repair can be replicated in other places and domains, and that this adds up.

Added The Wolf at the Door to Want to Read

Rated Inferno 8/10

I loved the build-up of the Tarot trilogy and found myself caught in this final book of Finn's story arc as much as in the first two installments. After defeating the demon king, Finn becomes the new ruler, and... well ok, maybe things don't end happily ever after, because there's still a game to be played.<br/><br/>I had somewhat hoped for a less shallow conclusion - either something either where Finn discovered he didn't need to 'revive' his late wife as he'd discovered his purpose in helping and collaborating with others around him, or maybe how (since his wife had been the initial model for what became the game's AI) he found enough of her in the game to bring closure to his longing. The simpler, more direct ending is satisfactory, but doesn't bring it to 5 star territory.