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On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
(1993)
read: 26 September 2016
rating: [+]
categories: fiction, unfinished
I went to my local library and was browsing their great SF section and the librarian recommended this. I like geeky hard science stuff, and series and she thought this might be good. And it sort of was, but ultimately wasn’t. A little too militaristic (I like science but not necessarily warfare) and while I loved the treecat idea, I wasn’t that into most of the rest of the characters. Oh well. Trying to get better at not finishing books.
Put A Stamp On It
by Herman Herst
(2016)
read: 26 September 2016
rating: [+]
category: non-fiction
This was a fun collection of postal-adjacent stories about stamps told by a stamp collector who had been in the biz for decades. It was assembled posthumously by his son and while it’s a little rough around the edges, it’s still pretty interesting if you’re interested in stamps.
A Great Reckoning
by Louise Penny
(2016)
read: 24 September 2016
rating: [+]
category: fiction
Another one in the Gamache series and one I liked a lot. A lot of depth to it and the usual dead ends but a lot of good Three Pines community stuff and not a lot of people you like being terrible to one another. Thumbs up.
Galore
by Michael Crummey
(2009)
read: 23 September 2016
rating: [+]
category: fiction
SO GOOD. This one was another by Crummey and more of an epic tale than Sweetland which was a bit of a “man vs. Nature” book. Loved the long rambling story about multiple generations of people in a down and out Newfoundland and some slightly fantastical things which happen within their community.
79 Short Essays on Design
by Michael Bierut
(2012)
read: 12 September 2016
rating: [-]
categories: non-fiction, unfinished
I was definitely not the target demo for this. Seventy-nine essays, each in their own font, about the inside baseball of the design world. Occasionally I could pick up something that was really interesting, but a lot of the rest of the time I just felt mired in design drama. Unfinished.
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