Jayp wants to read Defend and betray by Anne Perry (William Monk (3))
Nephew recommended this one to me.
Reviews and Comments
I love to read but many of the books I 'read' these days are audio books because of how much I travel for work. My reading habits are a bit chaotic, and it seems I either binge a book in a couple weeks or take years of stopping and starting. However, since I started tracking my reading 5 years ago I've gotten much better at not leaving books on the back burner. I love to learn about and read history, science fiction, biographies, essays, politics, philosophy, popular science, and more. Recently I've become interested in reading classics too.
I consider the day a book is acquired to be when I start reading it. This is mostly for motivational purposes, otherwise I will get distracted by new books. I will likely move away from this system in 2025.
I love the concept of Bookyrm, and after tracking my reading in spreadsheets for the past 5 years I have now moved it all to Bookwyrm.
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Jayp commented on Life and Fate by Robert Chandler
Well into part 3 now and I'm able to read more and more in one sitting. At this rate I'll have it finished before the new year.
Well into part 3 now and I'm able to read more and more in one sitting. At this rate I'll have it finished before the new year.
Jayp reviewed James: A Novel by Percival Everett
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Must read
5 stars
An incredible book that should be required reading instead of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in …
25 years later it is not worth reading, if it ever was
3 stars
Putnam collected an impressive array of facts, creating charts and a surprisingly easy to read narrative all to say... not much. Where he has a chance to talk about important factors in American life, such as racism and income quality, he largely ignores them. When they are discussed, the reader is given a high-school textbook level overview only.
Whatever value there was to this book feels like it became irrelevant after 2008, or maybe even 2003. In 2025 it is irrelevant and not worth your time.
Jayp rated The Sapling Cage: 4 stars
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of …
Victorine by Maude Hutchins (New York Review Books classics)
Jayp reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
A joy to read
5 stars
A Psalm for the Wild Built is the absolute best that solarpunk literature can offer.
Chambers dedicated the book to "...anybody who could use a break". If you need a peaceful read, this book is for you. It was exactly what I needed, giving my mind a break for the first time in a long while.
A Psalm for the Wild Built is the absolute best that solarpunk literature can offer.
Chambers dedicated the book to "...anybody who could use a break". If you need a peaceful read, this book is for you. It was exactly what I needed, giving my mind a break for the first time in a long while.
Jayp rated Your inner fish: 5 stars
Your inner fish by Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world …
Jayp rated The origins of modern science: 1300-1800: 5 stars
Jayp rated The cultural meaning of the scientific revolution: 5 stars
Jayp rated The Man Who Found Time: 5 stars
The Man Who Found Time by Jack Repcheck
There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three—Nicolaus Copernicus …
Jayp reviewed Forest Euphoria by Patricia Kaishian
The healing power of Nature and the truth's it can tell us
5 stars
I enjoyed this book. Patricia Kaishian's autobiographical account will resonat with anyone who feels a connection with nature. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer.
I enjoyed this book. Patricia Kaishian's autobiographical account will resonat with anyone who feels a connection with nature. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer.
Jayp reviewed Man Who Organized Nature by Anna Paterson
An engaging biography of Carl Linnaeus
4 stars
I initially struggled with this book. It does not start off with a bang and the initial impression Broberg gave of Linnaeus was not particularly interesting. However, somewhere along the way, after Linnaeus' time in Lapland I think, it became very engaging and interesting. Gunnar Broberg did a masterful job of writing history that is not dull and even, at times, funny!
I wish that more time was spent discussing the actual scientific details of how and why Linnaeus developed his classification schemes. However, it would have been a much longer book, probably too long.
If you are interested in the history of science, biology, or just an unusual biography, I would recommend you this book
I initially struggled with this book. It does not start off with a bang and the initial impression Broberg gave of Linnaeus was not particularly interesting. However, somewhere along the way, after Linnaeus' time in Lapland I think, it became very engaging and interesting. Gunnar Broberg did a masterful job of writing history that is not dull and even, at times, funny!
I wish that more time was spent discussing the actual scientific details of how and why Linnaeus developed his classification schemes. However, it would have been a much longer book, probably too long.
If you are interested in the history of science, biology, or just an unusual biography, I would recommend you this book
Jayp rated The Stonewall Reader: 4 stars
The Stonewall Reader by Jason Baumann, Edmund White
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s …