I mostly read sci-fi, but my interests are climate, bicycles, and board games. Obsessed with cities but live in the country.
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Red Moon is a 2018 science fiction novel by American novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The …
Content warning thar be spoilers
Liked it well enough. More bitcoin nonsense. Wish it didn't end so abruptly. The birth scene and subsequent drama on the Moon is the closest I've read to capturing how being a dad during labor feels.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
"Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned …
Great! It took me 2x as long to read as it should have because I kept pulling out my phone to do more research on everything mentioned. I’m not sure this would convert a pro-car diehard, but for everyone else, a delight.
"In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life …
Abandoned this partway through.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, …
Re-read this one. Still great, especially the first chapter. Something that struck me this go-around is that when Vonnegut wrote this he was only in his 40s. Not quite the grizzled old man I always pictured with the mustard gas and roses breath.
In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to …
This book would be a lot more impactful if it was shorter and tighter. The facts are exhaustively listed and cited, but it just comes off as more exhausting than thorough. You're likely to learn something new, probably something horrifying, but this is unlikely to change any minds. It is also particularly frustrating to read this years after it was published, and see that so little has changed in the intervening years.
I can't see this changing anyone's mind. It presents the overwhelming facts of climate change that everyone already knows, and which any denialist has already come to terms with ignoring.
Klein is so committed to her approach of listing off facts, that in a rare paragraph where she discusses her own feelings, rather than make any effort to communicate those feelings, she simply enumerates the scenarios: "I felt some things when I saw XYZ, and I also felt …
This book would be a lot more impactful if it was shorter and tighter. The facts are exhaustively listed and cited, but it just comes off as more exhausting than thorough. You're likely to learn something new, probably something horrifying, but this is unlikely to change any minds. It is also particularly frustrating to read this years after it was published, and see that so little has changed in the intervening years.
I can't see this changing anyone's mind. It presents the overwhelming facts of climate change that everyone already knows, and which any denialist has already come to terms with ignoring.
Klein is so committed to her approach of listing off facts, that in a rare paragraph where she discusses her own feelings, rather than make any effort to communicate those feelings, she simply enumerates the scenarios: "I felt some things when I saw XYZ, and I also felt some things when I saw ABC, and I also felt some things when I saw DEF..." No effort is made to explain what she feels, and definitely not to help the reader feel those things alongside the author.
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of …
Gave up halfway through, nothing bad, but just didn't keep my interest.
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
Silly.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
A love letter to NYC, which I don't know so that part fell flat. Also a love letter to Lovecraft, except make the bad guys into white dudes instead of immigrants, foreigners, and PoC. Which, you know, fair enough -- scary. The city idea felt new enough that I don't know why all the Lovecraft love was needed. It could have stood on its own without referencing and borrowing from Lovecraft's lore so much.
