My April reading list:
4/9 Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
4/15 Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail
4/15 Tadashi Agi (story) and Shu Okimoto (art), The Drops of God: Volume 15
4/16 Naomi Novik, Black Powder War
4/20 Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
4/23 Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
4/24 Will Kurt, Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, LEGO, and Rubber Ducks
Just finished a re-read of The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy. Highly recommended if you are interested in mathematics (or computing, there’s quite a bit on public key cryptography). I stopped at A level 20 years ago but can still follow it, and Sautoy is excellent at explaining science to the public.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
The stories, poems, & characters in HOW LOVELY TO BE A WOMAN ring w/ a strength & authenticity that grounds them even as they travel into supernatural & metaphorical territories. This impressive debut by Tiffany Michelle Brown is great: sinister, disturbing, unique, angry, & empowering.
📚 Recently finished the audiobook, "Becoming," by Michelle Obama. (Thanks to Libby/library.) Then with that added perspective, re-listened to "A Promised Land," by Barack Obama. Folks, wow. Must say a personal opinion: if you want to have your finger effectively on the pulse of USA issues, these two books, preferably close together, are very nearly a must. Don't cheat yourself out of the perspective. Not enough spaces for all tags I'd like to add. #USPol#racism#Obama#books#bookstodon
Every single month I curate a list of the best new book releases. As always, Bookish Brews centers BIPOC voices & voices from other systematically marginalized communities.
If you're looking to diversify your reading, I'm always here for you!
As my wonderful spouse and I get closer to embracing digital-nomadship and contemplating a big downsizing I struggle with parting with my library of real books.
Some I will never give up, like my collection of signed proof and author copies of news and journalism books.
We're planning on doing the #GreatLoop, some #RV#RoadLife and search for the perfect retirement spot and I just can't keep them all.
I started listening to “The Dispossessed” by Ursula Le Guin as a sort of follow up to “Babel-17” by Samuel Delany because I heard that it expands on the discorporate theme. Excited to get into it—my first time reading Le Guin.
Just one person's opinion - if you share your review of a book, please include the title of the book. And even better, the author's name. If I don't even know which book you reviewed, I'm not inclined to click on it.
Besides, even if you didn't like it, the book is likely to appeal to some people and getting the title and author's name out there couldn't hurt.
Last Day for this exceptional price!
$1.99
The humans and star beings thought the biggest problem they faced was each other. They thought wrong.
💫Enemies forced to cooperate
💫A young leader set up for failure
💫Morally grey villain
💫A cute cave digger pup
💫Powerful female protagonists
💫Future ice age predators
💫Shifters
💫Non-violence in a violent world
Is this it? Is this all there is? Is there nothing more?”
I look at my days and an unspoken agony wells up within me that begs to be told that this isn’t all there is.
"if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life...What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,—too weak to live, too cowardly to die." (Emma Goldman)