I swear I planned to only drop off books to the #LittleFreeLibrary, but I decided if I brought this one home with me, that would free up space for one more book to go into the library :) @bookstodon
@bookstodon HAHA!!! I'm in a training class today, and they recommended one of the books I'd just dropped off at the #LittleFreeLibrary. Now I remember why I had that book in the first place.. so I have to go back and get the book unless it's already gone.
A bit surprised but very much honored -- OK I'll admit it, totally stoked! -- to see an excerpt from my review @nybooks (alongside Laura Rival's @ TLS) as the back cover blurb for the 2023 paperback edition to Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
Just finished Biology the Whole Story by Lindsay Turnbull https://www.amazon.com/Biology-The-Whole-Story/dp/1788451937/ref=sr_1_1 Wow - what a great read! This was the perfect biology refresher for someone who took biology ... thirty-ish years ago? Steps through all the major topics - DNA, evolution, energy systems, animals, plants, and so on. Was great to dig back into some concepts I hadn't thought about in a long time
@danielcornell@bookstodon I'm in the same boat, only it was 50 years ago. I recently listened to Paul Sen's EINSTEIN'S FRIDGE as a great brush up on Thermodynamics which I studied for my Chemistry degree. It was a great overview of how it became the science of heat transfer, who were the major players (I remembered a lot of the names), and it's implications in modern information theory (that was new).
A fellow social worker I knew from grad school shared this book on her Instagram story and recommended it. I was on a hold list for the ebook at my local library for weeks, but now, I have it. I’m also listening to the #audiobook read by the author.
Natasha Brown’s Assembly is quite the Novella. “I've watched with dispassionate curiosity as this continent hacks away at itself: confused, lost, sick with nostalgia for those imperialist glory days - when the them had been so clearly defined! It's evident now, obvious in retrospect as the proof of root-two's irrationality, that these world superpowers are neither infallible, nor superior. They're nothing, not without a brutally enforced relativity. An organized, systematic brutality that their soft and sagging children can scarcely stomach - won't even acknowledge. Yet cling to as truth. There was never any absolute, no decree from God. Just viscous, random chance. And then, compounding.” @bookstodon#bookstodonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58600914
Gestern hab ich The Sudden Appearance of Hope [2016] von Claire North beendet [gut, aber nicht revolutionär], heute starte ich mit einem im voraus faszinierenden, hoffentlich nicht zu viel versprechenden Buch:
Mütter Europas - Die letzten 43000 Jahre [2022] von Karin Bojs
Eins kann ich, obwohl erst auf S. 20, schon sagen:
Leider gefällt mir die deutsche Übersetzung von Erik Gloßmann überhaupt nicht und die Ausgabe von C. H. Beck ist schlurig [oder gar nicht?] korrigiert/lektoriert. Wer kann, sollte das schwedische Original [oder eine andere Übersetzung] lesen.
I have a craving for vampire novels that don’t take themselves too seriously - any recommendations? Currently reading Odd Blood and enjoying it so far.
"But Munro is an entirely different case, and she may be a singular author in that category for me: the time spent not reading her is as essential to my understanding of her work as the time spent immersed in her words."
Time to get cracking on the rewrite of my sequel hacker thriller “Submerged.” I’ve got feedback from two development editors and three alpha readers to compare and contrast. And I’ve got coffee. @bookstodon
#WhatchaReading ? #AmReading Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh which is very intriguing so far. Lots and lots of undercurrents, clueless main character.
I positively inhaled David S. Pederson's Puzzles Can Be Deatly, a most excellent fairplay historical quozy mystery. Here's hoping the author writes more books with these protagonists.
Five stars: A High Tide Murder by Emily George and Chelsea Stephens (Narrator) (2024) is the second book in the Cannabis Café mystery series. Chloe's new café is doing well and she's having trouble keeping up with demand during the Azalea Bay Pro Challenger Surf Competition.