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Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
We have a work thing at 11:47 pm tonight, so I'm going to kill a bit of time seeing if I can pick this book up again.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Content warning Mild spoilers
Very interesting world building. Sentient flying trains. A great bargain that includes all sorts of creatures as people. It's very thought provoking.
But the story and characters drag a lot at times. For instance, the second section follows data gatherers as they figure out where to put public transportation on the world of Sask-E. But since they're essentially surveyors, it's not that exciting and mostly the characters spend all their time talking.
And while i see what the author is doing with the sex scenes, it's a lot like watching porn I'm not into. Very mechanical and not at all titillating. So those come off as dry too.
Anyway, other folks may enjoy the parts i disliked. They weren't bad. They just didn't resonate with me.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.
Destry's life …
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Wages haven't kept up with the cost of living, my landlord hiked up the rent, and now I'm out on my ass without a tongue to clean it.
Hah! Rephrasing "up shit creek without a paddle" for when the speaker is a cat.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Walking to the map coordinates from the North quadrant suburbs was nightmarish and instructive. Half the road had no sidewalks, so they had to walk in the street with all the vehicles— and fully half of those vehicles didn't care whether they collided with pedestrians. There were high density commercial streets that were inaccessible by foot, and load density residential areas with broad sidewalks that nobody used.
Nice to see a novel about ecology in the far far future give a nod to the shittyness of vehicular traffic. However, I'll be pretty disappointed to wake up in the 600th century and we still have today's land use problems.
Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders …
The story points out the absurdity of many crime fiction coincidences, but also relies on major coincidences. Almost as if the author is telling the reader, "yes, I know this is absurd, but we all enjoy this convention."
Unbalancing (2022, Tachyon Publications)
So far, there's not much story here. Flowery language and 102 politics around sexuality and neurodiversity.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by …
Jack Reacher is an ultra-competent former military policeman, but now drifts around the US solving crimes. If you have a problem, no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe Jack Reacher can help you. That's the opening line for the A-Team, but it fits Jack Reacher.
Anyhow, Jack Reacher starts off this episode in Key West where a private detective has found him. After denying that he's Jack Reacher, he finds the P.I. dead on the side of the road, missing all his fingers.
What sets this one apart from the previous Jack Reacher books I've read is that Reacher has a crisis of confidence partway through. He's made mistakes. And in this case, he may not be able to save all the appropriate characters. Sure, we know Reacher's gonna make it; there are quite a few books still to go in the series. But for …
Jack Reacher is an ultra-competent former military policeman, but now drifts around the US solving crimes. If you have a problem, no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe Jack Reacher can help you. That's the opening line for the A-Team, but it fits Jack Reacher.
Anyhow, Jack Reacher starts off this episode in Key West where a private detective has found him. After denying that he's Jack Reacher, he finds the P.I. dead on the side of the road, missing all his fingers.
What sets this one apart from the previous Jack Reacher books I've read is that Reacher has a crisis of confidence partway through. He's made mistakes. And in this case, he may not be able to save all the appropriate characters. Sure, we know Reacher's gonna make it; there are quite a few books still to go in the series. But for the first time it felt like the others might not. So there's a little bit of additional suspense that not present in the earlier books.
Unbalancing (2022, Tachyon Publications)
Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane@wandering.shop) put this in her best-of-2022 column at the Washington Post, so I'm gonna try it out.
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes place in the Great Lakes …
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
Book is more interesting now, but the interpersonal connections are a little bit contrived.
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
Content warning Mild spoilers
"The midwife said I should stop asking questions and that we should leave quickly. Did I mention that? "
"Did we not acknowledge you loudly enough the first six times you mentioned it? " Syed asked.
The conductor sighed. " We can't leave till we know more, " she said. " Let's get on with the evening, and we'll make inquiries after the show. "
In a post-apocalyptic world, the characters return to a town where they know people. But everyone they know is gone, the town has a prophet, and there's a mysterious graveyard.
To me, who has watched a few old school horror movies, this very much seems like young coeds deciding it's a good idea to go back into the House Of Chainsaws.
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
Starting my next fiction read.
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
For the first 20 years of my career, it never occurred to me that some people did not want the next, bigger job.
— Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Kim Scott
What? How does anyone not realize this? And they're writing a book on being a compassionate manager?!? Any decent manager would've known this after one or two months!
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
The author praises Noam Bardin's directness. However, I've seen how Noam Bardin tech bro attitude left out trans people. Very indicative of someone with privilege who can be direct without consequences.
