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Ben Steele

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2025 Reading Goal

80% complete! Ben Steele has read 16 of 20 books.

reviewed Cold People by Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith: Cold People (2023, Scribner)

Wow, the other reviews weren't wrong

Content warning Look, someone needs to warn you, this isn't just a survival book about humans getting by in Antarctica

reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Hardcover, 2015, Tor)

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find …

Wait, this was cute?

It is fundamentally unholy that a book about giant, sentient spiders interacting with the desperate last act of humanity be such a beautifully hopeful book. Bless this heresy.

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr! (2024)

God may give the toughest battles to the strongest warriors, but not always.

I am cured of my mental illness

I absolutely tore through this. I think I really needed to deal with a book to tell me to shut the mentally ill (and very loud) corner of my brain to shut the hell up and to listen to people around me. (That said, when there is no more sunshine in this city and I am once again trapped in a horrid office building during any and all daylight hours this winter, I will forget this wakeup call with every excuse).

A coworker told me he read it and didn't get it. I immediately realized there are some people who don't feel a need to end it all every time something goes mildly askew and was fascinated. I did laugh.

Anyways, there is something to be said about the fact that the day after I started reading, missiles and bombs were falling across Iran, which heightened the way that it …