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

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March 15, 2024February 12, 2024

The English Verb – Michael Lewis

This is another book I had to read for work purposes.

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

March 8, 2024February 25, 2024

Primogenitor, Clonelord, Manflayer – Josh Reynolds

Warhammer is a mess of a story. I kinda love it!

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Capitalism, Current Events, Economics, Non-Fiction  2 Comments

March 1, 2024February 9, 2024

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis

The Economist you love to hate, Varoufakis has lured me back with his latest book.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

February 23, 2024January 20, 2024

Two More Short Story Collections

Two more collections of short stories, reviewed by a person who doesn’t really like short stories.

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Biography, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 16, 2024January 27, 2024

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age – Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman

Claude Shannon is one of the grreat unsung intellectual heroes of the last century.

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Comics, Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

February 9, 2024February 9, 2024

Goodnight Punpun – Inio Asano, translated by Hox

A very strange, very adult manga

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Non-Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction  3 Comments

February 2, 2024January 24, 2024

The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens- and Ourselves – Arik Kershenbaum

We are all fascinated by aliens, but what can we reasonably expect them to be like?

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Comics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 26, 2024September 24, 2023

Sacrament, vol 1 – Peter Milligan and Marcelo Frusin

Sometimes you have a lot of hope for things, and your hope is wasted

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History, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

January 19, 2024January 11, 2024

Aristotle’s Children – Richard E. Rubenstein

There is a belief that Greek philosophy informs the modern world, but for a period of history Greek philosophy was largely gone from Europe.

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Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

January 12, 2024September 26, 2023

The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

Don’t be fooled by the silly cover.

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