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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a …
Excellent, as expected of the XKCD author. 🙂
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deafferret rated What If?: 5 stars
What If? by Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, …
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"And in another year or so," Clark said, "he'll be in here again, here or someplace else, and I'll be talking to some other bastard, or maybe even you again, and we'll try to make another one and he'll go away again. Is there any end to this shit? Does anything ever change in this racket?" "Hey Foss," the prosecutor said, taking Clark by the arm, "of course it changes. Don't take it so hard. Some of us die, the rest of us get older, new guys come along, old guys disappear. It changes every day." "It's hard to notice, though," Clark said. "It is," the prosecutor said, "it certainly is."
— The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins (100%)
What a perfect ending. You can feel the frustration of the justice system reflecting on itself.
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deafferret reviewed When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
Fantastic!
5 stars
It's extremely rare that a book makes me cry, but the characters are so well developed that the ending is surprisingly emotional. What a gift to read a tale so full of hope for humanity!
And along the way, an excellent mystery, exciting, lots of action. And I'm always a sucker for futuristic tech and scuba diving. :)
deafferret rated When You Had Power: 5 stars
When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a …
deafferret finished reading When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
Fantastic! It's extremely rare that a book makes me cry, but the characters are so well developed that the ending is surprisingly emotional. What a gift to read a tale so full of hope for humanity!
And along the way, an excellent mystery, exciting, lots of action. And I'm always a sucker for futuristic tech and scuba diving. :)
deafferret commented on When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
69%? nice.
deafferret commented on When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
Uh... I can't just update progress % without writing a comment?
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@deafferret Thanks! And you're reminding me I need to check out BookWyrm (just too many things to do, currently working on battling the climate crisis *in person* as we're weathering a climate-driven storm/outage with our solar/battery backups, trying to make sure friends are all okay. Gotta keep writing the climate solutions! )
deafferret commented on When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
My percentage updates lag. I update when I start reading, not when I finish.
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@mikehoss@appdot.net said to read this -- one of The Expanse authors, independent
deafferret wants to read The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) by Daniel Abraham
deafferret started reading When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn (Nothing is Promised, #1)
For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care …
Wow! This is so good! Author: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop
deafferret reviewed Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm …