The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.
The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?
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The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.
Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente
Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.
The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur
The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads
Eon – Greg Bear
I didn’t want to dislike this book, but I just didn’t seem to scratch any itch.
Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper
Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.
Babylon’s Ashes – James S.A. Corey
This book was a bit of a dip in the series, at least in comparison to the previous one.
How to travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
If you try to make a book of characters alone, surely something will be missing. Notably, story.
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Failures in Polymathy 