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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It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
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.
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world …
There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three—Nicolaus Copernicus …
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 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
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s …
Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by …
One of the best books I have ever had the joy of reading.
Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by making some brash decisions and …
Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by …
Nevada is so so good. Already planning on a re-read.
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a …
Not like any book I've read before. Starts off as a murder mystery before going in a couple other directions, all centered on the life of one man and his interaction with the people in a small alpine village. The book leaves you with a lot to think about. I look forward to reading more by Jean Giono.
I picked up A Time of Gifts during a NYRB sale. The blurb made it sound like an interesting and relaxing little travel journal. Somehow I completely missed when it was that the author started his sojourn across Europe to Constantinople.
Given the time we're currently living through, the author's description of pre WW2 Germany and the people he interacted with acquires an even deeper level of significance.
Putting that aside though, it's an extremely interesting and often funny travel journal. I can't wait to read the next volume.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri …
I strongly disliked this book during most of my read through, but by the end I was teary-eyed.
