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Wants to read The Double Helix

Wants to read "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Wants to read Educated

Wants to read The Yellow House

Wants to read Becoming

Wants to read Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Wants to read Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Finished reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Finished reading Playworld

Finished reading The Shampoo Effect

Rated Allmensch. Van middelmaat tot meesterschap 10/10

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 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.

Wants to read How Fiction Works

Wants to read Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Wants to read Oscar: A Life

Rated There There 10/10

Easily one of my favorite books I've read this year.

Wants to read War and Peace

Wants to read Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Wants to read Meat: A Benign Extravagance

Rated Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India 8/10

Picked this book up along with a few others to provide me a snapshot of some of the culture in India (there are many!). Really enjoyed it. Dalrymple's writing is remarkable- this is the first time I've read his writing. He's able to blend a personal narratives with deep insights into the respective practices.

Rated Micromotives and Macrobehavior 8/10

Anyone interested in everyday behavior and the social sciences should definitely pick this up and read through the first couple of chapters. But the book is a bit all over the place. Sometimes it feels like there are too many examples; other times, not enough. The framework Schelling tries to set up can be hard to follow. Nevertheless, the big ideas in the book are eye-opening and the examples are drawn from everyday life. <br/><br/>Whether you read it in its entirety or just the first couple chapters and skim the rest, I imagine you'll look at social patterns in the world with a slightly different perspective.

Wants to read A Short History of Nearly Everything

Wants to read The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds