Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—though in this case, a while back is just last week. Uninhabitable Earth is about as depressing as you would expect it to be.
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—in this case, last week. So, I stumbled onto this book at a used bookstore in Cheongju, and bought it hoping it would discuss the tulipomania—the tulip craze that swept the Netherlands (and other parts of Europe) centuries ago. It does, but… not in the way I expected. There’s a lot of detail in this book, and a great deal of it involves what could fairly be called “inside baseball” information: who cultivated what kinds of tulips and sold them …
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—in this case, last month. First, a disclaimer: Joe’s a good friend of mine. With that out of the way: imagine waking up one day to discover that you’re not a citizen of the only country you can remember living in; imagine being deported to a place where you don’t speak the language, know nothing of the culture, where social customs and rules and even the food is a barrage of the bewildering and unfamiliar. And then, imagine being drafted …
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while back—though in this case, a while back is just last week. Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time is a book that I’ve noticed on the shelf at the local library a few times. Because that particularly library jumbles together all of its English language books in a single room—kids’ books, comics, YA novels, and adult fiction and nonfiction—it’s always seemed a little out of place, and caught my eye each time I’ve been there. Having finally signed out a copy, …
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while ago. More recently than usual, though. This was something I got access to through work. The idea of “secret knowledge” has an allure that sells itself, so much so that I had to be cautious as I read this book not to be seduced by that idea, to allow Hockney’s arguments and reasoning to work rather than to be taken as proof without examination. Of course, I’m so unfamiliar with the history of visual art that in the end, I …
Like all the posts in my 2023 reads list, this comes at a lag, meaning I read this a while ago. I recently read a couple of comics aimed at younger readers. Basically, I stumbled onto them at the library while waiting for my son to pick out some comics, and figured I’d give them a shot, as a contrast to the more challenging reading I’ve got on the go at the moment. They’re interesting in different ways. Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts is about a pair of sisters who move to a town with a notable ghost population. The story is …
Like other reads, this one is being posted a little while after I’ve finished it. Not too long, I hope, but that depends on how busy I get, I suppose. I read this because it was recommended for a group read on one of the Discords I’m on. I was among the slowest to finish reading it, but I am glad I did.
Like other reads, this one is being posted a little while after I’ve finished it. Somehow, this one was a very quick read for me, despite it being about 800-odd pages of comics (plus a large amount of Death pin-ups and cover art).
Like other reads, this one is being posted a little while after I’ve finished it. It was a long, slow read, because even for a comic, 1000+ pages is a huge chunk of book.
This is a book I read the other day, and it’s a really great educational/reference tome. However, if you usually are here for fiction reviews, it may not be for you. If you play saxophone, on the other hand…