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October 18, 2024

Stiff

By Mary Roach

Lots of fun, lots of corpses but a bit a lark, a bit of a laugh.

September 18, 2024

2666

By Roberto Bolaño

For a long time, I have believed that a truly great novel is one which contains a sliver of divinity, something which makes me want to believe in the power and glory of God. As an atheist, that feels like...

September 07, 2024

The Lost City Of Z

By David Grann

An interesting, well-researched, well-put together history of travel in the Amazon that I think unfortunately I read too shortly after reading The River of Doubt which is just kind of ultimately a better story about historical travel in the Amazon....

February 18, 2024

The Three-Body Problem

By Liu Cixin

I think the parts that I found interesting in this book, Liu Cixin did not. There are some intriguing concepts here, I think alien astronomy during the cultural revolution is a cool setting to explore…but there is a also a...