An easy to read and heartwarming story. It spoke to my sad soul and made me cry, so it must have been good.
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data science researcher, ex software deveveloper, pole dancer, bibliophile, interested in machine learning, comp neuroscience, sociology. I read a bit of (almost) everything. 🇸🇬🇦🇺🇩🇪
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Tania J. reviewed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Heartwarming
4 stars
Tania J. finished reading Hashimoto's Food Pharmacology by Izabella Wentz PharmD.
Tania J. quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous: the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud or Claude Lévi-Strauss being only particularly salient cases in point. One must simplify the world to discover something new about it. The problem comes when, long after the discovery has been made, people continue to simplify.
— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 33)
Tania J. finished reading Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
Tania J. reviewed Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
Nice ideas, poor execution
3 stars
Nice ideas but poorly written.
Tania J. started reading Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
Tania J. reviewed The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West …
Masterful
5 stars
The writing style captured me from the beginning, although it was sometimes (in the first few sections) a struggle to follow the rather complex plot with so many characters. I really appreciated all the authentic New Zealand (and especially Hokitika) references - wildlife, Maori language and culture, street names, etc. since I discovered and started reading this book in Hokitika itself. However, I think many clever astrological references were lost on me. Despite that I thoroughly enjoyed the book. This would be a great one to take apart in an English Lit. class.
Tania J. finished reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night …
Tania J. quoted The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West …
... he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.
— The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Page 372)
Tania J. started reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West …
I found this book at an Airbnb in Hokitika, New Zealand. Despite losing interest after reading the back, the first few pages captured me with the setting (Hokitika) and the delightful writing style.
Tania J. stopped reading Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass …
This book is boring me to tears. The writing style is pretty awkward and difficuly to read, especially when compared to some of the classics I've been reading lately. It may be quite informative for people who didn't grow up in the 90s or are not tech savvy, but in 100 pages I haven't found many new insights so I'm putting this one aside.
Tania J. quoted Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass …
Tech people rarely, if ever, have a sense of the broader applications and policy implications of the projects to which they are assigned. And the work that consumes them tend to require such specialized knowledge that to bring it up at a barbecue would get them disinvited from the next one. In retrospect, maybe that's what got us here.
— Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (Page 31)
Tania J. started reading Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first …
Tania J. reviewed Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Beautiful and abhorrent
4 stars
Beautiful, poetic writing but an abhorrent theme and a detestable main character