Life Lived Wild
Rick Ridgeway’s writing has a bit of a rough-hewn, simple style that I don’t think will win many awards - and at first, that I didn’t think I liked that much. But there is also a deep, earnest sincerity to...
2020s
System Collapse
Murderbot continues to be a delight, maybe a bit more on the Real side with this one but still at the core the classic Murderbot running around, saving lives, struggling with Emotions, getting shot a few times. While quite enjoyable,...
A City On Mars
Life on Mars is great edutainment, clearly the work of people who are passionate about research, space, and space research. It is full of fun anecdotes and what seems like a difficult to assail argument that space colonization is not...
The Mysteries
Gotta love Bill Watterson and anything he makes
Pirate Enlightenment
This book is a fascinating little history of Madagascar and the kingdoms and societies during the golden age of piracy. I (and I imagine I am not unique here) know little of this corner of the world and corner of...
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow
I mean rating things on a numeric scale from 1 to 5 is of course silly and non-objective. I think, in many way’s, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is in fact a great book! Well-rounded characters in an engaging narrative...
The Memoirs Of Stockholm Sven
There is, for me, an undeniable allure in Svalbard and the Arctic (and Antarctic). Austere, windswept desolation, wide vistas, creatures eking out a living amongst the snow and ice - it is romantic. It feels so alien, so antithetical to...
The English Understand Wool
The Committed
The Dictionary of Lost Words