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Calamari

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reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tordotcom) 4 stars

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

He calls himself Murderbot, …That was private!

5 stars

A very entertaining book about a murderbot, who just wants to watch entertainment and left alone, but has to save his clients and pretend to care although he doesn't.

14th Dalai Lama: Die Welt in einem einzigen Atom (German language, 2005, Theseus) 5 stars

"After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as …

Thoughts about science and spirituality.

5 stars

I really enjoyed reading this. You learn a bit about the 14th Dalay Lama, the concepts of Buddhism and his thoughts about Buddhism and Science. Apparently, many great minds like to visit and talk to him, so he has an interestingly broad knowledge about many topics and interesting thoughts about how this relates to Buddhism and ethics. Definitely worth a read.

Maria Semple: Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012, little, Brown and Company) 4 stars

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow …

A truly interesting character

5 stars

What is an accomplished L.A. architect winning a Grand Award doing in Seattle. And what does this have to do with Antarctica?

Love this book. You also learn interesting facts about the cold desert continent and other things.