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Wants to read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Rated Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 6/10

Wants to read A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Wants to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Wants to read The Progress of Love

Wants to read How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice

Wants to read The Global Pigeon

Wants to read The Origin of Species

Wants to read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Wants to read Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Wants to read The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas

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

Reading The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rated Exit Strategy 8/10

Finished reading The Shampoo Effect

Finished reading Make Believe

Rated Allmensch. Van middelmaat tot meesterschap 10/10

Rated De ontdekking van de vrouw: De tweede sekse van Simone de Beauvoir herverteld 10/10

Je hoeft ‘De tweede sekse’ niet te lezen. Alicja Gescinska vat alles krachtig samen in minder dan 100 bladzijden, alles ingekaderd in een grappig maar scherpe, fictieve situatie.

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 Millionaire Real Estate Investor 8/10

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.

Reading Everybody Knows

Wants to read Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy