OVERVIEW Overall Completion Rate – Something I’ve noticed over the past few years is that I really have gone down in my overall reading, and/or completion rate for books (some of past annual booklists have been in the 50-60 range, and last year was 49). I think that between COVID lockdown time and grad school, […]
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BOOKS OVERVIEW NOT FINISHED In late 2022 and crossing over into January 2023, I read the books in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series. There is an additional book, titled Survivor, that was originally published as part of the series, but which she subsequently disavowed and allowed to go out-of-print because she realized it was pretty shoddy […]
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2015 Book list (asterisk indicates books I really enjoyed) In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami Game of Thrones and Philosophy – edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin The Crash of 2016* – Thom Hartmann The Martian* – Andy Weir Super Justice Force – David J. Walker Hitler’s War – Harry Turtledove Black Girl […]
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The eagerly awaited seventh installment of the popular space opera series Star Wars, subtitled “The Force Awakens”, is set to hit theaters later this month. But earlier this fall, a small group of racist Twitter trolls set off yet another skirmish in the culture wars by launching a new hashtag in response to the film’s […]
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