The main reason I docked stars for this was a recurring theme of fatphobia, specifically Wood's lending credence to disproven medical myths around weight and its relationship to health, which is especially dangerous for someone regarded as a scientific expert to do. It's particularly unfortunate because, without those parts, this is a detailed and actionable book describing the current state of scientific knowledge around habit formation and habit breaking, written by one of the main leaders of that research.
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chrisamaphone rated Automating Inequality: 4 stars
Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks, Eubanks
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
The State of …
chrisamaphone rated Space Opera: 4 stars
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate)
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the …
chrisamaphone reviewed Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
Review of 'Good Habits, Bad Habits' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
chrisamaphone rated Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story: 4 stars
chrisamaphone rated Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift: 4 stars
chrisamaphone rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 5 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
chrisamaphone rated Toki Pona: 5 stars
Toki Pona by Sonja Lang
Toki Pona is a language that simplifies ideas to their most basic elements. If you are hungry, you 'want eat'. …
chrisamaphone rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: 4 stars
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …
chrisamaphone rated The Disordered Cosmos: 5 stars
chrisamaphone reviewed A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (The Carls, #2)
Sci-fi novel that follows the story of April May and friends in defense of the …
Review of 'A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I liked this book a lot, in part just because it's about things I think about daily (tech ethics, creation & commodification of creative value, attention as currency, the limitations of temporarily inhabiting someone else's experiences as a vector for empathy, whether or not humanity's fundamentally flaws will doom us, and so on). Honestly, I think Hank Green is a better philosopher than he is storyteller. The conversation between him and Cory Doctorow at the end of the audiobook was great, too.
I honestly didn't enjoy A Truly Remarkable Thing that much; it felt like cheesy pulp sci-fi with kind of overplayed takes on the theme of internet fame. But it was worth reading to be able to truly appreciate this sequel. I think part of it may have been that I was a bit tired of hearing the story from April's POV, so I really appreciated the rotating …
I liked this book a lot, in part just because it's about things I think about daily (tech ethics, creation & commodification of creative value, attention as currency, the limitations of temporarily inhabiting someone else's experiences as a vector for empathy, whether or not humanity's fundamentally flaws will doom us, and so on). Honestly, I think Hank Green is a better philosopher than he is storyteller. The conversation between him and Cory Doctorow at the end of the audiobook was great, too.
I honestly didn't enjoy A Truly Remarkable Thing that much; it felt like cheesy pulp sci-fi with kind of overplayed takes on the theme of internet fame. But it was worth reading to be able to truly appreciate this sequel. I think part of it may have been that I was a bit tired of hearing the story from April's POV, so I really appreciated the rotating narrator cast in this one. Miranda's parts in particular were outstanding, and her audiobook narrator was spot-on to my imagination of her.
chrisamaphone rated An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: 3 stars
chrisamaphone rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
chrisamaphone rated Network Effect: 5 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
chrisamaphone rated Exit Strategy: 4 stars
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes …