Book 18 - 2024 'Head-On' John Scalzi: Audiobook: Amber Benson
2nd time alternating between reading text/listening to Audiobook - again - really enjoyed Amber Benson Narration
Didn't enjoy this as much as it's predecessor 'Lock-In' by Scalzi. This plot felt meandering.
Being familiar with the characters, I liked learning more about their lives and the world they live in, but felt the plot (although highly plausible) was mostly 'meh'
Ok so I'm #reading#Hothouse by #BrianWAldiss now, and this is such a strange and mysterious setting I guess I'll keep going with it, just wow.
Only two chapters so far. Earth, 2 million years into the future. The planet no longer spins, and vegetal life has evolved to the top of the food chain.
Book review #27 for 2024 is Steve Silberman's Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. A helpful and informative book on the unfolding journey of and...battles with/for, regarding people who interact with their world differently. I found this book to be helpful in understanding the rise of what we today call neurodiversity. ☕☕☕☕1/2 review. @stevesilberman@books@bookstodon@bookstodon#autism#neurodiversity#books#books2024 #
Ok ok, so I started #reading E. M. Forster's #TheMachineStops and it is a #ScienceFiction short story, and it pretty much predicts a lot of stuff in today's society it is actually scary :blobcatnotlikethis:
Ok so past the midway point of The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw.
This story started out nice, immersed me a ton, has done plot twist after plot twist and now it completely changed everything again and I am in awe at the stuff going on right now like, what's next?? I have no ideaaa
Books - 2024
15 Fangirl & 16 [DNF] Carry On: The Rise & Fall of Simon Snow
both by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl: Cath is a S Snow fan. She's also 'Big Name' fanfic writer who's desperate to finish her version before the Canon final book is published. She's also just staring University
Carry On is the in-universe fanfic that Cath is writing, except it's not, it's the Author of Fangirls version of the Simon Snow stories
Books - 2024 [cont]
15 Fangirl & 16 [DNF] Carry On: The Rise & Fall of Simon Snow
both by Rainbow Rowell
I really liked the concept behind this, I was excited reading the excerpts of Cannon and Fanfic from the 'Simon Snow' stories as featured in Fangirl, but the execution was.. lacklustre .. it and read like polished but soul-less .. tie-in fluff
I say that as someone who loves fanfic, has read it for years, and has read some amazing works - but this ain't it
Buuut it was a New York Time Best Seller, and I think this is the fifth time I've read a book - reallly did not like it - and then discovered it was on the NY Times best seller list.
Strongly suspect I'm just not a NY Best Selling Author kind of reader
I started #reading#AgathaChristie's A Mysterious Affair at Styles yesterday and it's kinda fun so far, will read a chapter a day and should be done in a couple weeks :blobcathappy:
Well, this is my #review of #Dune, and it is complete, because it ended here.
Random thoughts, my journey of reading and more filler because it's my #blog after all. Mild #spoilers ahead, behind a clear warning and you can skip them!
Starts with a promisingly astute observation: “It would be so tedious for you, wouldn’t it, to have your research interrupted every so often by cultists wanting to worship the thing you were studying? In my department, now, we don’t have such problems.” “Good heavens, Harriet—you study money! All sorts of people worship that.”
(In STEM, we get crackpots, but our cultists are usually violently denying our findings instead of worshipping them.)