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Rated The Poisonwood Bible 6/10

Rated The Lottery and Other Stories 8/10

Rated Oedipus the King 10/10

<strong>slaps</strong><br/><br/>wow this slaps. so much drama get it Sophocles! a short read but really packs it in. poor Oedipus :/ 10/10

Rated Potty Training in 3 Days: The Step-by-Step Plan for a Clean Break from Dirty Diapers 10/10

Rated Storm Waters 10/10

Spectacular hard-boiled period fantasy noir. Perfect language for the noir genre and wildly creative.

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Rated Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Vol. 1: Who is Oracle? 10/10

Rated On the Road with Hillary: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Journey from Arkansas to the U.S. Senate 6/10

A fun, anecdotal memoir from one of HRC's advance staff, giving a nice mix of the nuts and bolts of political travel, delightful stories of misadventures and an overview of the 1992-2000 period in politics and history. Utterly hagiographic, but doesn't suffer for it.

Rated The Power 10/10

Really compelling, absorbing and thought-provoking. I'd heard a lot about this book and knew the basic gist but wasn't quite prepared for this to have the ominous, almost Biblical force it has. It really leans into the dark, unpleasant aspects of its argument, so it's *a lot*, but of course the point is to be confrontational; this isn't so much dystopian sci-fi as a mirrored reflection of a dystopic state of affairs that already exists. Grimly engaging as you watch the stories unfold and root for a better outcome even as you know from the beginning that you're not going to get it. Cleverly executed and well worth reading. I tore through this in three days but one might prefer to get it in smaller doses -it's heavy.<br/><br/>Weirdly enough, the book this reminds me of the most is [b:World War Z|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1528312647s/8908.jpg|817], which is a lot lighter but similarly takes a global view of an emergent phenomenon. It also made me think about the movie "Sorry to Bother You," which similarly uses a speculative and uncanny story to talk about power and social relations.

Reading Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

Finished reading The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today

Finished reading What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

Finished reading The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World

Wants to read My Monticello

Rated Bring Up the Bodies 10/10

holy cow. even better than "Wolf Hall."

Wants to read The Bear and the Nightingale

Wants to read The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

Wants to read O Filho de Netuno

Wants to read God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America

Finished reading Dr. Faustus

Wants to read The Parking Lot Attendant

Rated Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating extraterrestrial Life-Forms 6/10

Rated Alien Clay 8/10

Rated Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating extraterrestrial Life-Forms 6/10

Wants to read Asunder: A Vatan Chronicle