Interesting reading articles about climate change published in 2015. Did people really feel that optimistic about the Paris agreement at the time? I don't remember feeling that way, but some people did, apparently. Some little glimmer of hope, I suppose. Poor bastards.
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ghost with books ๐ป๐ finished reading Runaway Planet by Washington Post Staff
Interesting reading articles about climate change published in 2015. Did people really feel that optimistic about the Paris agreement at the time? I don't remember feeling that way, but some people did, apparently. Some little glimmer of hope, I suppose. Poor bastards.
ghost with books ๐ป๐ started reading Runaway Planet by Washington Post Staff
ghost with books ๐ป๐ finished reading After The Revolution by Robert Evans
What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an โฆ
Finally!
This "brilliantly conceived" novel imagines a devastating nuclear attack on America and the official government โฆ
Deer gods ๐ณ
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis
This "brilliantly conceived" novel imagines a devastating nuclear attack on America and the official government report of the calamity (Eric โฆ
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis
This "brilliantly conceived" novel imagines a devastating nuclear attack on America and the official government report of the calamity (Eric โฆ
ghost with books ๐ป๐ commented on Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen uses nuclear weapons knowledge gleaned from declassified documents and expert โฆ
Content warning Spoilers for endings of the book and a movie
Got around to A House of Dynamite (www.themoviedb.org/movie/1290159-a-house-of-dynamite). Basically a movie version of the first part of the scenario described in this book, from missile detection to middle strike. The film stops exactly there, so the audience doesn't have to deal with the emotional and psychological trauma of seeing what happens when a nuclear weapon detonates over a city like Chicago.
I get it, but I also wish that everyone would watch the movie and understand, in their bones, that it's not hyperbole. In fact, the reality is bleaker than the movie.
Then let's do something about it. Deer gods ๐ณ
ghost with books ๐ป๐ reviewed Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, #6)
Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. โฆ
A whole lotta god bothering at a snail's pace
2 stars
Content warning Hardly a spoiler, but for those who really don't want to know *anything* about the plot
One word to describe this book:
Exhausting.
Want more? Okay, let's see . . .
- Slow
- Preachy
- Disappointing
- Unfulfilling
- Masturbatory
This book is a grind, and it's filled with Christian bullshit that King lays on thick. His appearance in the book felt cheap and silly to me when I read this years ago; now, it feels like masturbation. Ah, okay, one more word to describe this book:
Icky ๐คข
ghost with books ๐ป๐ finished reading Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, #6)
Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. โฆ
Deer gods, that was a chore ๐ฎโ๐จ
There is way too much Christian god bothering in this book. Too much Christian mythology throughout the series, in fact. I don't remember being bothered by that when I read these books so many years ago, but it definitely irritates me now. I know this is King's Lord of the Rings, and I know that LOTR is Christian mythology repackaged into a high fantasy skinโbut, somehow, King managed to make The Dark Tower more overtly Christian than Tolkien did LOTR. Frankly, it's gross ๐คข
Gonna try to plow through the last book, but if it ends up feeling as difficult to get through as Song of Susannah, I'll be jumping ship. I've got more exciting reads on my list.
Deer gods, that was a chore ๐ฎโ๐จ
There is way too much Christian god bothering in this book. Too much Christian mythology throughout the series, in fact. I don't remember being bothered by that when I read these books so many years ago, but it definitely irritates me now. I know this is King's Lord of the Rings, and I know that LOTR is Christian mythology repackaged into a high fantasy skinโbut, somehow, King managed to make The Dark Tower more overtly Christian than Tolkien did LOTR. Frankly, it's gross ๐คข
Gonna try to plow through the last book, but if it ends up feeling as difficult to get through as Song of Susannah, I'll be jumping ship. I've got more exciting reads on my list.
ghost with books ๐ป๐ wants to read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As โฆ
ghost with books ๐ป๐ wants to read American Hippo: River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories by Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth, #Omnibus)
American Hippo: River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories by Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth, #Omnibus)
In 2017 Sarah Gailey made her debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced โฆ
ghost with books ๐ป๐ wants to read Six Minutes to Winter by Mark Lynas
ghost with books ๐ป๐ started reading Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, #6)
Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. โฆ
Mama Mia ๐จ
ghost with books ๐ป๐ finished reading Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, #5)
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower WOLVES OF THE CALLA Determined to reach โฆ
Whew! Took a long while to finish this one, but finally made it to the big shoot out at the end. Ready to follow Roland and the ka-tet as they once again take up the quest for the Dark Tower.