BOOKS
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson
Welcome to a land of magic and gods that sometimes walk among humans, at the very least they spend a bunch of energy influencing human affairs to their liking. We start by joining the Malazan Empire'
Liberty's Daughter - Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer
Liberty's Daughter is about Beck Garrison, a teenager living on a libertarian seastead which is part of a collection of seasteads with varying rules. Some have no rules at all, so drugs are openly ma
Ruined by Reading - Sharon Schwartz
Sharon Schwartz
Ruined by reading was a very different book than I expected. I didn't expect this memoir on the affect of reading to the author's life to be a keep but it continually asked thought provoking question
Never Enough - Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jennifer Brehney Wallace
In Never Enough we take a look at how the achievement culture that is prevalent in society today is harming children as they are pushed to compete more, achieve more, all in a quest to get into the "
The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
This is the final book in the 4 books Brandon Sanderson wrote in "secret" during the COVID 19 pandemic. In this one we follow Nomad who has skipped to a world that has such intense sun that it scorch
Beneath the God's Tree - S Kaeth
S. Kaeth
This was me second visit to S Kaeth's fantasy world, the first being Between Starfalls. I again found the world interesting and the story generally well written. If I have any critisim of the book it
Everything and Less - The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Mark McGurl
This is a fairly academic look at how Amazon has affected the world of literary fiction, and genre fiction. It takes a brief look at the enshittification cycle that Amazon is embarking on as it chang
Heaven's River - Bobiverse Book 4
Dennis E Taylor
In the 4th installment in Dennis Taylor's series about a post-human society of "Bob's" we get introduced to a new race called Quinlan's as Bob goes searching for Bender who disappeared long ago. F
Changer - Matt Gemmell
Matt Gemmell
While I've enjoyed Matt's writing online on his site, and even a bunch of his short stories, this book didn't do it for me. In fact, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the book. I made it about 1
Read Write Own - Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon
This is a techno-utopian look at how "blockchain" can solve all our social ills on the internet, by a man who has been involved in funding many of the companies that are bring the internet ills to us