Nolan Can Read

2020s

December 29, 2023

Life Lived Wild

By Rick Ridgeway

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...

December 18, 2023

System Collapse

By Martha Wells

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,...

December 05, 2023

A City On Mars

By Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

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...

October 24, 2023

Pirate Enlightenment

By David Graeber

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...

October 16, 2023

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin

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...

August 30, 2023

The Memoirs Of Stockholm Sven

By Nathaniel Ian Miller

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...