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8% complete! ssweeny has read 2 of 25 books.
The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa …
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and …
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in …
Enjoyed this one. Compared to some other nonfiction/self-help-type books I've read recently this one spent way less time on anecdotes and more on actual, actionable advice with examples of how a conversation might go, how it might go wrong, and how to recover. Exactly what I was looking for.
A lot of the breakthroughs in this book seem too good to be true, and I've read elsewhere that the results discussed are controversial and no one else seems to have reproduced them, which tracks even if it's disappointing.
This book came out in 2019 and makes a few references to a "future pandemic" that raise eyebrows in 2024.
Overall I'm glad I read it, and I hope the author is right about our imminent ability to slow/reverse aging and keep folks healthy and hale into their 100s but I'm not exactly holding my breath.
Like many other people I discovered Martha Wells via the Murderbot series. Until I saw the press for this book I had no idea she was also an accomplished fantasy author. I guess I have more stories to go back and read!
I really loved the characters in this one. This is one of those stories that flips between the Origin Story where everyone meets amidst a crisis and Current Day where they are reunited to face a new crisis. I thought the characters' relationships in the Present Day flowed well from how they met in the Origin Story, and their interactions were both natural and entertaining.
I thought the plot in the Origin Story timeline was more exciting, even if there wasn't much tension since you knew certain characters appear in the Current Day and hence couldn't have died. It's a story of war and defeat and desperation which …
Like many other people I discovered Martha Wells via the Murderbot series. Until I saw the press for this book I had no idea she was also an accomplished fantasy author. I guess I have more stories to go back and read!
I really loved the characters in this one. This is one of those stories that flips between the Origin Story where everyone meets amidst a crisis and Current Day where they are reunited to face a new crisis. I thought the characters' relationships in the Present Day flowed well from how they met in the Origin Story, and their interactions were both natural and entertaining.
I thought the plot in the Origin Story timeline was more exciting, even if there wasn't much tension since you knew certain characters appear in the Current Day and hence couldn't have died. It's a story of war and defeat and desperation which is tough to beat.
The Current Day story line is much thinner and involves mystery and conspiracy but honestly it doesn't feel like much happens so much as you're spending time with these characters as they deal with their current problem.
As far as I know this is a standalone novel but I wouldn't mind seeing more of this setting and these characters.
Pretty breezy and engaging. Some things I'll definitely try to put into practice.
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a …
Kiddo is really enjoying this series.
