Wants to read Retreat
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Rated The Butcher of the Forest 8/10
really good - a concise and contained story (rare for the genre!) that suggests a rich larger world without burdening the tight little narrative with a ton of exposition or explanation. more like this please!
Rated Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream 10/10
Exceptional - well researched and reported, eye-opening, infuriating. As mad as you think you are at private equity, you can always be madder
Rated Doomsday Book 8/10
Long but solidly readable; somehow I didn’t know until a little ways into the book that it was written in 1992 and takes place in a 2055 that’s heavily affected by a pandemic that takes place sometime in the intervening years. Also kind of fun to see what “the future” looked like 30-some years ago; the book posits a world with time travel and land-line phones. <br/><br/>It’s a little…distant, maybe—The character relationships aren’t well-developed—but as it builds it gets compelling.
Rated Iron and Magic 10/10
My first book by Ilona Andrews, after reading a recommendation in The Reactor. Amazon had indicated it was a one-off, without any indication it was related to the Kate Daniels series. I can already feel my bank account wincing.
Rated Of Mice and Men 9/10
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Wants to read Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Rated A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? 10/10
terrific, and necessary. as part of their eventual tribunals Musk and Bezos will need to do a book report on this.
Rated Beautiful Ruins 8/10
this is so lovely. cleverly done, emotionally affecting.
Rated Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory 8/10
It's good to take a moment out of the series and acknowledge that some horrible stuff has happened to several people. The question is, when is Murderbot going to see a shrink?
Wants to read Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Wants to read Wizard of the Crow
Rated Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues 8/10
For a relatively slim book, this really packs in a lot of information. Between my biology background and always having had an interest in anthropology, archaeology, and history, this book was right in my wheelhouse. There's a lot I learned about times I generally knew about, but this book covers specifics. I think most know that in the past before the understanding of germ theory a lot of cultures were less than sanitary, but the added points of interest were always the connections made to how massive amounts of disease and death created "opportunities" for turning points in history. That's what kept me turning the pages even as my eyes wanted to shut because it was my bedtime. I recommend this book if you're into the above mentioned subjects for a thought provoking read.
Rated Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection 10/10
wonderful. heavy subject but a light read - it's brief, but dense with both emotionally rich storytelling and fascinating detail.