Eli started reading Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow
The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant–what a bounty hunter …
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The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant–what a bounty hunter …

The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran …
Really enjoyed this book. Gives excellent examples of how the Internet is broken, and monopolies lock people in to the services they are used to using. Very insightful and further reinforcing why I am on the way out of the systems as much as I can. Unfortunately, it is impossible to completely break free, but voting with money and opting for alternatives is a great start for sure. Would highly recommend this short book, especially in audio format read by the author.

Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she …
Quite an interesting feminist piece from 100 years ago. How things have changed, yet some things not so much. She considered the freedom of women, freedom to earn money, to own anything, and freedom to write. Poetry as the primary choice, but in reality, any prose. Still relevant to these days, but allowing a great insight into how we've progressed within this time span.
Quite an interesting feminist piece from 100 years ago. How things have changed, yet some things not so much. She considered the freedom of women, freedom to earn money, to own anything, and freedom to write. Poetry as the primary choice, but in reality, any prose. Still relevant to these days, but allowing a great insight into how we've progressed within this time span.
Quite good few short stories! Some spoke to me more than others, like the first one of smart appliances and jailbreaking them, and the illusion of choice for those not in a position to choose for the aim of money, of course.
Thought provoking ideas for sure.
This book is absolutely beautiful. A personal experience seeing a leveret abandoned and taking it in to try to rehab. Against all odds, the leveret survives and despite leaving and exploring the wilderness around, she keeps on returning and trusting the author and her company and home to birth her leverets.
Having the leveret impacted Chloe's life more than she ever thought possible, just showing how interacting with the wild and nature can have profound effects, particularly as we keep moving away from it. The adventures, the observations she made really touched my heart and reinforced my reasons for not eating animal, such gentle and curious beings.
Absolutely wonderful book.
This book is absolutely beautiful. A personal experience seeing a leveret abandoned and taking it in to try to rehab. Against all odds, the leveret survives and despite leaving and exploring the wilderness around, she keeps on returning and trusting the author and her company and home to birth her leverets.
Having the leveret impacted Chloe's life more than she ever thought possible, just showing how interacting with the wild and nature can have profound effects, particularly as we keep moving away from it. The adventures, the observations she made really touched my heart and reinforced my reasons for not eating animal, such gentle and curious beings.
Absolutely wonderful book.

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and …
The title doesn't really give a true insight into the book. Whilst she does mention the over thinking several times, it seems to go more in the footsteps of her other books. So it got a hit repetitive in a way and giving similar examples and stories. Whilst written to be quite engaging, it just felt a bit like false advertisement and superficial.
The title doesn't really give a true insight into the book. Whilst she does mention the over thinking several times, it seems to go more in the footsteps of her other books. So it got a hit repetitive in a way and giving similar examples and stories. Whilst written to be quite engaging, it just felt a bit like false advertisement and superficial.
A bit too similar to the LOTR series, and whilst parts of it I enjoyed, it didn't feel too engaging as just too samey and epic without always making sense.
A bit too similar to the LOTR series, and whilst parts of it I enjoyed, it didn't feel too engaging as just too samey and epic without always making sense.

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative …

THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The …

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