Rating: Recommended
Making it So – Patrick Steward
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This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his career wishing he could go back and get himself to lighten up a bit. I also loved the genuine…
Onyx Storm – Rebecca Yarros
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This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back the true enemy of all life, the Venin who steal magic directly from your body or the earth.…
Iron Flame – Rebecca Yarros
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Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been deceived about the truth of the war they’re fighting. At times Violet feels a bit off in this book…
Think Again – Adam Grant
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In a world that seems to be going to hell in a hand basket maybe we need to stop valuing pure intelligence or money as a goal and instead look towards the ability to abandon ideas that are no longer valid and relearn when presented with new information. That is the goal of Adam Grant’s…
Wind and Truth – Brandon Sanderson
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The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while working through this and it never felt like a slog. I’d still say the first few books were my favourite as we…
Footprints In Search of Future Fossils – David Farrier
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What types of fossils will our society leave behind? What is the half life of our nuclear waste, and what does that mean in the terms of future generations that will still have to deal with it? How is the pollution we’re putting into the atmosphere today going to show up for generations to come?…
The Toll – Neal Shusterman
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This is the final book in the Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan have disappeared and Scythe Goddard has nothing standing in his way to his dream of unchecked killing by his new order of Scythe’s. I found the book had me on the edge of my seat, just like the whole series…
Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
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Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of the Scythe series. This follows Anastasia as she tries to “glean” with compassion while openly challenging the new order of Scythes that want to gain more power over the world. I found the world compelling and will read through the whole series again.
Thinking in Systems – Donella H Meadows
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Just a few pages into this book I was expecting a fairly dense book on the mechanics of systems thinking. In fact I assumed the first chapter was a warmup to deep hard to wrap my head around topics. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t that type of book. Meadows treats readers to a…
Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff
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The biggest idea was intrigued by here was radical democracy, which in this context means that only workers have any say in the ways they work and the ways that any surplus (profits) from their work are spent at their place of work. There are no boards, no shareholders, no owners unless you are doing…
