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

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

November 17, 2023May 11, 2023

Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir

The Martian 2: but more sci-fi this time

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Atheism, Ethics, Morality, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  1 Comment

November 10, 2023May 11, 2023

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values – Sam Harris

I wanted to like this. But then again, who doesn’t want to solve the is/ought problem?

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

November 3, 2023May 11, 2023

Children of the New World – Alexander Weinstein

Oh look, a short story collection I really liked.

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Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

October 27, 2023May 11, 2023

I’m Glad my Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy

People seem to think that fame and celebrity are ‘cheat codes’ to life. Those people lack imagination.

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Comics, Fiction  1 Comment

October 13, 2023May 11, 2023

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

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Fiction, Western  1 Comment

October 6, 2023May 11, 2023

Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty

A truly great Western

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy  1 Comment

September 29, 2023May 11, 2023

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

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History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

September 1, 2023May 11, 2023

The Book – Kieth Houston

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction  0 Comments

August 25, 2023May 11, 2023

Antica Madre – Valerio Massimo Manfredi

A DNF. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

August 18, 2023May 11, 2023

Word and Object – Willard Van Orman Quine

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.

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