@anaulin Interesting - I had some similar feelings about the end of How Infrastructure Works. The book does a lot to explain how infrastructure is the thing you take for granted, but ends on a superhopeful note about how we can cure our ills by planning for a world of energy abundance. It's very hard to listen to that message now and not think about who controls where that energy is directed and how it is distributed. If we can't equitably share the abundant food that is enough to feed the world, why would we share an energy surplus instead of darkness in some places and TV in the Sky for others?
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Matt K wants to read Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world …
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Matt K wants to read Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
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Matt K finished reading Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of …
Thanks dad!
Matt K reviewed Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of …
A vicious little thriller
4 stars
Here’s a great tale where everyone is a little broken and a little queer, the game is deception on top of deception. Everyone is trying to get ahead or back in the game or just keep their head. The coverup is the crisis and it all falls apart for some as it falls together for others.
Even within a chapter you get a clue and a mystery or two and a turn that makes you exclaim. Very fun.
Matt K commented on Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of …
Oh hell. That bit about the hand was nicely done.
Matt K wants to read Turn the ship around! by L. David Marquet
Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have …
I'm interested in this as it was referenced by Ben Kuhn in www.benkuhn.net/impact/ and the excerpt online isn't really something I can share with teams. I am noticing that I am being asked too much for permission.
Matt K started reading Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service …
For dad.
Matt K finished reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a 2020 fantasy fiction standalone novel written by …
A nice treat to finish this today of all days.
Matt K quoted The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
There comes a time, H. L. Mencken said, when every normal man is tempted "to spit on his hands, haul up the black flag and begin slitting throats."
— The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro (66%)
From a description of the deplorable conditions on the LIRR during 1968.
Matt K commented on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a 2020 fantasy fiction standalone novel written by …
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Ah the sweet turn - bang on at the halfway mark. Another damned soul!
Matt K quoted The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
The roads of Rome stood for two thousand years and more; who would predict less for the roads of Moses? Who would predict less for his Shea Stadium, a structure consciously shaped to resemble Rome’s Colosseum because he was afraid that his convention center–office tower “Coliseum” didn’t make the comparison clear enough?
— The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro (52%)
Shea.Stadium was demolished in 2009. Things can seem eternal until they are rubble.
Matt K wants to read In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend
From ecology to fermentation, in pop culture and in medicine―mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s …
on hold as i left it at.a friends
Matt K started reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
Why not. Even if only Jody and I read it.