Biomedical and electrical engineer interested in education, information theory, math, complexity, journalism, mnemotechny, #IndieWeb, economics, history
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A short and specific overview of zettelkasten. Not as thorough or as good as Ahrens book, but short and sweet.
What a whirlwind! I particularly love the expanded viewpoint of indigenous and oral cultures which we obviously don't give enough credit to.
This gorgeous, fully illustrated handbook tells the story of sketchnotes - why and how you …
quick and easy read
well laid out with lots of examples
This was one of the best in the series so far. Much more complicated and dense with relationships and inter-relationships to muddy the story. Definitely well structured and put together.
I'm not sure I'd want to go back and re-read any of the others, but I might consider it for this one.
Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away …
What a lovely little story.
A solid overview of where anthropology has been and where it is now. This is a great piece for advanced undergraduates or early grad students to have more context on their field for forging the next generation of scholars.
This was a slow one. I'd have to characterize it more as a character piece for Perez and some of his healing process post-Fran. Usually her books have the first death around a quarter of the way in and another at about 40%, but don't really get moving until about 60% of the way in.
This one didn't get going until the final chapters and then came pouring out in one fell swoop in the closing chapters. The build up could have been better structured here; I almost felt like Cleeves phoned it in here. This one has been the least interesting of the series so far, but had some reasonable potential.
Cleeves has also been building up an annoying structural habit of describing everything to the n-th degree throughout a book, but then at the end purposely leaving out one or two specific parts of scenes to drag out …
This was a slow one. I'd have to characterize it more as a character piece for Perez and some of his healing process post-Fran. Usually her books have the first death around a quarter of the way in and another at about 40%, but don't really get moving until about 60% of the way in.
This one didn't get going until the final chapters and then came pouring out in one fell swoop in the closing chapters. The build up could have been better structured here; I almost felt like Cleeves phoned it in here. This one has been the least interesting of the series so far, but had some reasonable potential.
Cleeves has also been building up an annoying structural habit of describing everything to the n-th degree throughout a book, but then at the end purposely leaving out one or two specific parts of scenes to drag out the mystery a bit longer. She really doesn't need these final cliffhangers at the end, particularly when a character (usually Perez) has a strong idea of the potential answers. Go ahead and let the reader in on the character's thinking and continue leading us. Specifically in this book Perez sends Sandy off to interview someone with three specific questions and Cleeves makes a big deal about Sandy memorizing them. Then we see the scene where he's asking them, but she purposely and annoyingly leaves out his asking the last question and jumps to a different scene. Why bother?
A good mystery should give the reader as many facts displayed throughout the story to allow them to guess the ending and then let the end unravel itself. Cleeves definitely doesn't do this here.
In the end, I'd say about 2.5 out of 5. Entertaining, not her best, I wouldn't read it again.
A painful but solid ending. Best of the series so far, though perhaps because knowing the characters so well now.
Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to …
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Suggested to me by the author's excerpt of the book in a Foreign Affairs article I read on 2016-12-15:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-10-04/how-succeed-networked-world
This is definitely in my top three Korman books so far. Maybe it's the top, but we'll have to see if it lives up to multiple reads the way No Coins, Please has.
An entertaining plot with some excellent writing and characters. I did see the cat website mystery from a mile away, but it was still well done. The rest of the plotting was excellent all the way through with just enough drama and humor at every turn. I'd worry a bit about the niche audience, but I totally want to option this and turn it into a movie.
