Rating: Maybe
On Revision – William Germano
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If you want to write non-fiction then William Germano’s book is one you should put on your list to read. Germano walks us through what it means to revise. It’s not fixing spelling, or doing a final polish, revising is all about understanding what your writing actually does instead of what you think it does.
Among the Burning Flowers – Samantha Shannon
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This is the prequel to both A Day of Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree and while the story is good, I’d say it’s only worth reading if you’ve read both the other books and want to dig more into the history of the world that the author has built. Here we follow
Enshittificaton – Cory Doctorow
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If you’ve heard Cory Doctorow talk or read his site before none of this is going to be a surprise. He’s covered all these bases many times before in blog posts and podcast interviews. I agree with much of what Doctorow writes, but have always had a hard time getting past his strident writing style.
Autocracy Inc – Anne Applebaum
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This is November 2025’s book club book. Applebaum walks readers through how autocratic states operate, and how they peddle their influence through the world. China subsidizes StarTimes for news so it’s a cheaper option than Western media thus Chinese ideals are spread. China, and other autocracies, don’t differentiate between government policy and business so they
Drinking the Ocean – Saad Omar Khan
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Drinking the Ocean follows Murad and Sofi as their lives intertwine, where one loves the other romantically and it’s only returned in the type of love that a sibling would receive. We follow this story first from the future as Murad sees Sofi on the TTC and then we venture back into history to see
Artemis – Andy Weir
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In this book we follow Jasmine (Jazz) on the Artemis colony on the Moon. She’s a smuggler and generally gets up to shenanigans involving smuggling and in this book some sabotage. While I loved The Martian and Hail Mary, this book wasn’t one I loved. I even read it a second time now, first read
Never Play it Safe – Chase Jarvis
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This was read for September 2025 book club. Join to get regular posts on books. While part of my is always inspired by these types of books they also seem to be extreme examples of survivorship bias. We only hear about all the people the author has met, and sometimes coached, that succeeded by following
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
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This book started off slow and while it sped up a bit, it was never a breakneck paced science fiction thriller. It’s firmly a character driven story that has some science fiction as a background to how the characters come to interact. The final few chapters do suddenly increase in pace as a bunch of
Farsighted – Steven Johnson
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This was read for book club in July. Join to get all the discussion on the book. While Johnson has some good ideas we can put into practice, he takes far too long telling us stories to get them across. This is a “glossy” book, much like Malcolm Gladwell writes, which gives us a high
Limit of Vision – Linda Nagata
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This book explores the evolution of human-kind as the combine with LOV’s, artificial brains designed by humans, in what at times appears to be a race to “beat” AI and at times feels like a slapped together concept that never really lands. For me the book felt rushed most of the time, like there was
