Orconomics and Son of a Liche – J. Zachary Pike
“” by @jzacharypike makes me feel less alone in the world.
Fiction
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The Martian 2: but more sci-fi this time
Children of the New World – Alexander Weinstein
Oh look, a short story collection I really liked.
La profezia dell’armadillo – Zerocalcare
I liked the last Zerocalcare book I read. I decided to go for another one. The nice person at the
A Dance with Dragons – George R R Martin
(Note, in case some of this doesn’t make sense in the future, this post was written on September 25 2022)
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
The meanest thing I can say about this novel is to just ask the question “why do we demonize one-hit wonders anyway?”
Antica Madre – Valerio Massimo Manfredi
A DNF. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.
Heaven’s River – Dennis E. Taylor
When I was a kid, I could pick up a book that I had put down, even months later, and
The Talented Mr. Ripely – Patricia Highsmith
This is an excellent little thriller, that doesn’t seem to fall in the trap of glorifying it’s anti-hero.
Failures in Polymathy 