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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.

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Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners (Paperback, 2020, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated) 4 stars

With 100 recipes and practical advice, this is the only guide you'll need to get …

A potentially lifesaving cookbook.

4 stars

I don't normally review cookbooks, but this one was necessary. Earlier this year my doctor recommended I take up a primarily Mediterranean diet to help with my heart failure and obesity. I picked this cookbook up from the library because it sounded like a good place to start. This is the only book I ever liked so much that I purchased a copy before the library book was even due. So far we have liked every recipe we've tried in the book, and in the 6 weeks I've been using it as my primary source of meals I've lost over 20 lbs., and my blood pressure has remained in check. I'm only giving 4 stars rather than 5 as Paravents isn't actually the best author. In particular in the introduction part, she talks about how to grocery shop and includes that when choosing whether to purchase something ask yourself if …

Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners (Paperback, 2020, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated) 4 stars

With 100 recipes and practical advice, this is the only guide you'll need to get …

A potentially lifesaving cookbook.

4 stars

I don't normally review cookbooks, but this one was necessary. Earlier this year my doctor recommended I take up a primarily Mediterranean diet to help with my heart failure and obesity. I picked this cookbook up from the library because it sounded like a good place to start. This is the only book I ever liked so much that I purchased a copy before the library book was even due. So far, we have liked every recipe we've tried in the book, and in the 6 weeks I've been using it as my primary source of meals I've lost over 20 lbs., and my blood pressure has remained in check. I'm only giving 4 stars rather than 5 as Paravents isn't actually the best author. In particular in the introduction part, she talks about how to grocery shop and includes that when choosing whether to purchase something ask yourself if …

Revelation and Dust (DS9-Relaunch #28) (Paperback, 2013, Pocket Books) 2 stars

After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon …

Not George's best work

2 stars

While this is the 28th book in our continuing mission of the crew and station of Deep Space Nine since the T.V. Series finale it's also the first in the "side-quest" THE FALL series. As such David George III spends a lot of the first half of the book trying to bring new readers up to speed as well as detailing the new Deep Space Nine to all of us. He did so in an interesting fashion through a memorial service and a dedication, but it wasn't particularly thrilling and really easy to put down. Got a little better in the second half but it was odd explanation of getting around security by using a "projectile weapon" rather than a phaser and a weird, intertwined story of an experience inside the celestial temple.

I'll probably pick up the next one, but probably not soon.

V, The Florida Project (Paperback, Pinnacle Books) No rating

Former pro-football star Jack Stern and his fiancee, biologist Sabrina Fontaine, are held captive in …

Although its book 5 in the series the library doesn't have books 2-4. And allegedly they aren't an interconnected story so you can read them in any order, like Fandemonium's Stargate SG-1 series

reviewed Ecodefense by Edward Abbey

Ecodefense (Paperback, 1993, Abbzug Pr) 4 stars

This book was banned in Australia, gazetted in 1992 as "refused classification" and a prohibited …

This book starts with a disclaimer that it is for entertainment purposes only. It is certainly entertaining.

4 stars

I really appreciated the editors'& authors position that defense of the planet should never put human life at risk. Ecodefense is one that is going in my "To Buy" list. But it is also one I really shouldn't have borrowed the library, and I will not purchase online, due to its subversive nature it would be better if there was no record associated with one's name and should be purchased with cash. Radical environmentalism has never really been my cup of tea, but I was hoping this book would give me some insight into sabotage as a political strategy for industrial unionization, particularly being co-edited by Bill Haywood. Well, this book was written decades after the death of Big Bill Haywood, so it certainly wasn't' the legendary labor organizer, and probably just a pseudonym. But it certainly had some good insight that could be used for all sorts of political …