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Finished reading Pattern Recognition

Rated Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle 10/10

Rated Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy 8/10

Rated One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 10/10

Finished reading Virtual Light

Finished reading I'm Glad My Mom Died

Wants to read The Greeks: A Global History

Wants to read Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

Wants to read Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Finished reading The Peripheral

Added The Sunlit Man: A Cosmere Novel to Read Books

Finished reading The Difference Engine

Wants to read The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them

Rated Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 8/10

Mary Roach is such a fantastic writer - she packs in so much information in what feels like quick, funny, breezy writing. This is an awesome, often hilarious, occasionally cringe-inducing book.

Wants to read The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity

Finished reading City of Blades

Rated Even Zombie Killers Get The Blues 8/10

An interesting take on the zombie apocalypse genre, especially for military buffs.

Wants to read Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Wants to read The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

Wants to read Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England

Wants to read House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

Wants to read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Rated Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 8/10

Brain-bendy in the manner of those optical illusions where you think you're seeing a vase and then you realize it's two faces and you can't unsee the faces. The overall theme is that "racism" isn't a problem caused by "race," but rather the opposite - "race" is a concept used to justify and offer a basis for "racism." A very academic and sociological but sharply and brightly argued series of essays, challenging and eye-opening, drawing on foundational sociologists like Durkheim, DuBois and Weber to explain how race isn't some pre-existing fact about the world, but rather a retroactive justification for oppression. The comparison with "witchcraft" is quite deliberate and even explicitly spelled out in one essay. What the authors do very successfully is *describe* how their ideas operate in practice, and the ideological implications, without having to point out that the net effect of "racecraft" is monstrous, leading to not just absurdity but real suffering and violence. Highly recommend.

Wants to read The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

Finished reading Ancillary Mercy