weirder.earth/@sunstone | he/him | tech worker | USA | 30s | Reading interests: speculative fic, pop-science & history, tech-related & software, social justice, and Buddhism & Hinduism.
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Develops a humane and intuitive design and construction technique applicable to a wide range of …
I skimmed it when I first got the PDF maybe 5 years ago. Today I’m sitting down to read it the way he suggests: in one day, spend 4 hours reading all the section titles and looking at pictures.
I intend later to revisit the parts that seem the most important.
"Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles …
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll …
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll find something in here that opens something up in you that you didn’t know was there.
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in …
I’m not familiar with the Tibetan traditions and this is a great introduction. I listened to the audiobook version which was good but the pronunciations of Tibetan words & Indian locations were bad.
I’m tempted to buy a hard copy to keep in my collection so I can refer back to it in the future.
Master of the Five Magics is a speculative fiction novel, the first of three books sharing a setting but featuring …
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner …
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. 'Our Lady of Paris', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is …
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Not taking anything away from anyone who likes this. But I personally found it cringey at best. 2 stars for making me laugh and leaving me with some hilarious images.
The twist ending, where the protagonist makes a slightly different choice with a drastically different outcome, must have been a real treat to the fans. I love that for them.
Listen, I’m no hater. I know lots of people love these books. I’m taking it at face value.
The reason why the acting in the movies is so stilted is because these characters behave in bizarre ways. It’s kind of fun to read, though. My first time reading this author’s work.
