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88% complete! Rainer has read 31 of 35 books.
A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world’s seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals …
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins …
Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to …
So beautiful. If you have a chance to read this one, do it.
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative …
Just like any other short story collection, some of these stories were better than others, but as a collected whole this was a great read.
Residential school survivor Raymond Tony Charlie exposes the sexual, emotional and physical abuse he suffered …
A heavy read about residential schools in my part of the world and the genocide that European settlers have imposed upon their indigenous neighbors. Very highly recommended read if you happen to live in Canada.
Ring Shout, or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times is a dark historical fantasy, …
This novella was very interesting and I'm glad I read it, but one of the villains that was a stroke of absolute creative genius, but hit me like a classroom full of fingernails on a chalkboard.
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the …
This book will sweep you away and carry you into a pirating world in a different time. I particularly enjoyed this book's perspective of the setting's time and place.
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in …
The tension and the character building in this book are exquisite. The author's capacity for obscuring the finale, while also tastefully and intentionally leaving breadcrumbs along the way, made this book an engaging and engrossing novel until the very last sentence of the epilogue.
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for …
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, …
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
Doctorow isn't without his issues (whom amongst us truly is), but he is an invaluable voice for crucial technology issues that affect all of our lives (not just the nerds who find this stuff interesting...)
1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau—headstrong, willful, and often ignored …
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in …
Work read
A Librarians-and-Necromancy Fantasy with Small Town Charm in a City of the Dead
The others believe in blood and bone. …
