Dad, data engineer, novelist, nature lover. Living in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and …
I'm already on this wave so maybe not needed
I'm already on this wave so maybe not needed
Recommended by my friends Cody and Polly
A 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for …
If I already believe the thesis - that free will is an illusion - is reading this a waste of time or will it help me better internalize not having a self?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival …
I loved Children of Time and had only read it to get to this one so clear my schedule
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …
Quite a feat of writing: Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions. The humans weren't quite as interesting as the spiders, sure, but their story was a good foil and drove the plot.
Quite a feat of writing: Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions. The humans weren't quite as interesting as the spiders, sure, but their story was a good foil and drove the plot.
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …
Gosh that was good! Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions.
My favorite part was a pair of chapters that had a tender moment between spiders and then one between humans, back to back.
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …
About 300 pages in already and loving it. It feels like reading Ender's Game for the first time as a teen.
About 300 pages in already and loving it. It feels like reading Ender's Game for the first time as a teen.
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range …
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on …
Saw someone post about it on Mastodon
In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural …
I read one or two each day and enjoyed them. There are some images that repeat between stories, like a thatch of hair on a shower drain, but otherwise they were different enough, with varying degrees of the supernatural and darkness.
In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural …
From the depths of the freezer, Dad wrested bass and bream, which he'd cleaned and gutted long ago, storing them in knot-ted bread bags for the long freeze. He peeled the plastic away from frozen clumps of small fish, piled them onto a plate, and put them into the microwave to thaw. Spinning in the microwave light, the game popped and steamed. When the fish had thawed into a gelatinous mass, Dad opened the microwave and unleashed smells of stagnant swamps, of drainage ditches and backwaters haunted by moaning ghosts. Retching, we staggered out into the backyard, where Dad had set up his propane fryer, its aluminum pot filled with recycled oil he'd saved in mason jars.
Soon Dad joined us with a heap of breaded fish, singing "Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley." A Jim Beam bottle bobbed festively in his bathrobe pocket. In the shade of the magnolia, he unfolded a lawn chair and got to work.
As Dad plopped fish into the sputtering oil, he turned to the topic of Hell.
— Hellions by Julia Elliott (Page 237)
From the final short story, All The Other Demons. This collection was at its best with phrases like "backwaters haunted by moaning ghosts" and the Jim Beam bottle bobbing in the bathrobe pocket.
From the final short story, All The Other Demons. This collection was at its best with phrases like "backwaters haunted by moaning ghosts" and the Jim Beam bottle bobbing in the bathrobe pocket.
Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of …
In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural …
Recommended by a friend who recommends weird dark fiction
The explosive, satisfying conclusion to the Chaotic Orbits novella trilogy sees Ada and Rian breaking …
Content warning On the romance subplot
They didn't get together??
