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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

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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

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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 "

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

FICTION Adventure
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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

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Between Starfalls - S Kaeth

S. Kaeth

Never leave the path, but if your son goes missing maybe all those dogmatic rules no longer make sense and you're willing to risk everything to get him back. While I found the language a bit stil

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