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Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

December 19, 2025November 4, 2025

A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World – David Kushner and Koren Shadmi

A short primer on Anonymous in graphic novel form

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Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 12, 2025November 4, 2025

Starter Villain: Anti-Hero in Training – John Scalzi

A novel about a person who isn’t a supervillain, and isnt much aspiring to be one either.

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Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

December 5, 2025October 28, 2025

Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson

A waste of time which you shouldnt read

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  3 Comments

November 28, 2025February 9, 2025

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

An easy read that made me get back into reading a little bit. An interesting-ish take on the ‘what if things had shaken out differently’ genre.

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Non-Fiction  4 Comments

November 21, 2025October 18, 2025

How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil

We are oil dependent. That is all

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November 14, 2025October 18, 2025

The Dog Walker – R A Stone

A Contemporary Male Fiction Novel. Apparently that matters

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Feminism, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

November 7, 2025October 18, 2025

Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man – Norah Vincent

One gender does tend to assume, for better or worse, what life as the other gender is life. Norah Vincent had a stab at it.

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Fiction, Novel  2 Comments

October 31, 2025October 18, 2025

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

A complex novel about a person who is lost in life and society, both metaphorically and at times literally

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History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

October 24, 2025April 24, 2025

Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise – Fernand Braudel

A take on two centuries of Italian dominance.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

October 3, 2025February 9, 2025

The Fifth Science – Exurb1a

A YouTuber branched out into fiction. How well will this go?

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