Rating: Recommended
Apple in China – Patrick McGee
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Apple in China paints a picture of a company that took Steve Jobs personality to heart. From Tony Blevin’s making deals that put workers in dire situations at Foxconn so that the company could hit the prices Apple forced on them, to Tim Cook going back on his 2017 statement about staying silent in the
Of Boys and Men – Richard V Reeves
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The main idea that Richard V Reeves is trying to get across is that men are in crisis now, and that acknowledging the crisis that men are having doesn’t negate any compassion and equality we still need to seek for women. It is possible to hold the idea in your head that both men and
Meditations for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
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This is an in progress read for book club. Scroll to the bottom to see the related posts. Oliver Burkeman asks us to spend one day on each chapter, ideally, and evaluate how hard we are on ourselves. Instead of falling into the prouductivity porn culture surrounding us, where we rush through everything so we
A Witch’s Sin – Daniel B Greene
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Welcome to a world of technology embedded in your body, where ads can blare at you at any time and an open window means you’ve granted permission for a drone to broadcast further ads into your personal living space. In this world we meet Taya, and learn that there are honest to goodness vampires. Taya
The Other Valley – Scott Alexander Howard
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The story starts off slow and a bit sad as we follow 16-year-old Odile who is a lonely girl after her only friend moved to a different part of town. Her life starts to look up as she is befriended by Alain and Edme, but she also learns a secret by accident, one of them
Wildwood Imperium – Colin Meloy
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This is the third book in the Wildwood Chronicles and we pickup shortly after the events of the third book where Prue and the residents of Wildwood banded together to thwart the plans of the former Queen. Well a young girl dabbling in magic she doesn’t understand ends up reawakening her as a living ivy
The Siren’s Call – Chris Hayes
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The Siren’s Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don’t want. We don’t really want to doom scroll, but it’s hard to fight the generated content that gets put in front of us because it’s just compelling enough and provides just the right amount of dopamine hits to
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
