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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Atheism, Biography, Christianity, Counter Apologetics, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion, Scepticism  0 Comments

February 19, 2021February 8, 2021

Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason – Seth Andrews

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

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Fiction, Horror, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  1 Comment

February 5, 2021November 29, 2020

The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.

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English, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 22, 2021January 17, 2021

The Story of English in 100 Words – David Crystal

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 8, 2021November 29, 2020

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

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Uncategorized  0 Comments

January 1, 2021November 29, 2020

Happy new year + announcement

A brief announcement on the state of this blog.

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Fiction  1 Comment

December 18, 2020August 30, 2021

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz

This won a Pulitzer?

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Non-Fiction, Religion, Science, Sociology  0 Comments

December 11, 2020November 9, 2020

McMindfullness – Ronald E. Purser

It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  1 Comment

December 4, 2020October 28, 2020

The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood

Sometimes as you read a sequel you just hope beyond hope that it wasn’t a marketing departments decision.

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Economics, Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

November 27, 2020October 2, 2020

The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee

If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.

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Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Science-Fiction  6 Comments

November 20, 2020September 25, 2020

The Martian Time Slip – Philip K Dick

The ship of Theseus is a pretty applicable bit of philosophy. Here’s a thought: are you the same reader you were 20 years ago?

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