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Jonathan Harmon

jarnathan@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

Latin teacher, TTRPG player, FOSS fan, dad.

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Cory Doctorow: The Lost Cause (Paperback, 2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But …

Doctorow at His Best, An Excellent Climate Novel

This is an excellent speculative novel that addresses the challenges of climate change, how people with the same aims can struggle to agree on means, and what happens when we win meaningful change.

finished reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (An Avon Camelot book)

Beverly Cleary: The Mouse and the Motorcycle (2006, HarperTrophy)

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of …

Really well-woven tale incorporating semi-fantastic elements with a homey realistic feel that warms all of Cleary's writing.

Sophus Helle: Gilgamesh (Paperback, 2022, Yale University Press)

Too many lacunae

I respect the editor's choice to preserve the lacunae, indicating places where the record is/was incomplete, but there were so many it distracted from the narrative.