A great story with fascinating science and compelling personalities but annoyingly written for a fifth grade reading level.
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giantrobot rated Call Us What We Carry: 5 stars
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked …
giantrobot rated Basketball: 4 stars
Basketball by Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, Dan Klores
"An oral history of basketball"--
giantrobot reviewed The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, …
Review of 'The Code Breaker' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
giantrobot rated My Evil Mother: 3 stars
giantrobot reviewed Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
Review of 'Sea of Tranquility' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Cloud Atlas lite
giantrobot rated Midrange Theory: 3 stars
giantrobot rated The Kaiju Preservation Society: 3 stars
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That …
giantrobot rated Blood in the Garden: 3 stars
giantrobot rated Cloud Cuckoo Land: 5 stars
giantrobot rated Super Volcanoes: 4 stars
giantrobot rated Truth and Other Stories: 3 stars
giantrobot reviewed All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk
The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961are the longest continuous, self-contained …
Review of 'All of the Marvels' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Ideally, you pair this with a Marvel Unlimited subscription, so it can serve as a reader's companion to the key issues discussed and a guide through the extensive Marvel comic universe.
Otherwise it reads as a more (less?) extensive Wikipedia summary of some of the major characters/teams in Marvel history, which is still interesting if you are the sort of person who would read long plotlines on Wikipedia.
Extra star for an entire chapter dedicated to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan!
giantrobot rated Station Eleven: 5 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
giantrobot rated Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory: 3 stars
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well's Murderbot Diaries. This story …