Category: Book Review
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Battle of the AI: Klara and the Sun vs. M3GAN
Will they rule us, or serve us, or befriend us?
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Solarpunk, a happy apocalypse? A review for Monk & Robot duology.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built & A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers, published in 2021 & 2022. I just finished the Duology of the Monk and Robot series. Such a wonderful and playful story. A great read, and I eagerly jumped from book 1 to book 2. How Solarpunk is presenting a happy…
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This is NOT a spoiler free blog!
If I am reviewing a book, it is because I finished it. If I finished it, I liked it. I am fickle like that.
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Sundiver by David Brin: the ‘eponymous’ review
The beginning of it all… literarily speaking.
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Spaceship Earth: the Shape of our Planet!
Or “Can’t We Just Stop Destroying Things?” I just watched Spaceship Earth, which is the story of the Biosphere2 project outside of Tucson, Arizona. I remember touring Biosphere2 with my youngest, a science buff, while visiting my dad in the 2000s. (I miss you, Dad.) It felt like I was inside a terrarium. Warm, moist,…
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A new eye for Frankenstein.
It sure is intimidating to review Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Percy Shelley. What could I possibly add to what has already been written? So let’s get this out of the way: 5 STARS! Now onto more interesting things: as I reread the book for the third time, I read it with an…
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‘The opposite of Uplift’ in The Lemming Condition
This is a question in my mind: What is the opposite of Uplift? Is it Putdown? Some books so obviously fall into the Absolute-Opposite-of-Uplift category, and I would like a name for it. Why this negative stuff? I thought this was an uplifting blog? In order to understand what is uplifting, I think I need…
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Two elephants in a Drought Land: a metaphor for war
A travelogue of war books that have stayed with me.