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

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  2 Comments

June 22, 2018May 20, 2018

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon is one of those books that proudly wears the label of ‘classic’

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Social Media, Sociology, Technology  0 Comments

June 15, 2018June 14, 2018

Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier

Social Media is making all of our lives significantly and obviously worse. Did we need ten reasons to get rid of social media?

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 8, 2018May 16, 2018

Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is one of the most beloved books in science-fiction, and possibly the most popular telling of humanity’s arrival on the red planet.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

June 1, 2018May 5, 2018

Talking Back, Talking Black – John McWhorter

Few topics are as controversial as the state of AAVE in the USA.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 25, 2018May 5, 2018

Semiosis – Sue Burke

A new take on the idea of sentience and the alien other in science-fiction.

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

May 18, 2018May 28, 2018

A Higher Loyalty – James Comey

Guided by principles of what duty to an office really means, this book illuminates the reasoning behind recent events.

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Fiction, Western  0 Comments

May 11, 2018March 27, 2018

Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt

In this not-exactly-a-Western two gruff brothers take an assassination job that down through the American West coast

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History, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 4, 2018March 8, 2018

The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow

Statistics themselves can be rather boring, but this slim’s book story of how they affect our day to day life is rather captivating.

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Non-Fiction  1 Comment

April 27, 2018February 20, 2018

The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa

Life for the Portuguese poet certainly is not peachy…

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 20, 2018March 8, 2018

Caliban’s War – James S.A Corey

The second book in James S.A. Corey’s Expanse follows the story pretty much as expected.

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