A recent transplant to the Triangle area in NC. Main reading goals include literary fiction about modern families, current events nonfiction, scientific speculation, and more.
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist …
Made me sad and occasionally hopeful. Especially in the first two parts, Bruder threads the needle of investigating a topic that's fraught and acknowledging the economic conditions that are antagonizing these people without painting them as flat victims.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist Jessica Bruder about the phenomenon …
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the …
Required reading.
Called it by page 200 of 308. But that's not necessarily because I'm super-clever. Ware does this thing where she telegraphs that a character is a bad person to the reader, but the protagonist is frustratingly too stuck in her own insecurities to realize it. There's a compelling sequence of events and even the framing device adds some intrigue to the first third of the book, but Ware leans on the levers too often and what started out as suspense ends up as melodrama.
At some point in their lives, all young people believe their parents are evil - but what if they really …
While I find some flaws in Zahn's prose, I really enjoyed the plotting. It felt like an organic continuation of this story. Weirdly, if I wish there were more changes to the final draft, it's regarding Mara Jade. Intriguing character, but the reveal about her past oddly lacked atmosphere. It's about as far from the Revelation in Cloud City as you can get. Knowing what I know about where Mara goes next, I kind of wish her obsession with Luke wasn't this...one-dimensional, but I'm still intrigued to see how Zahn develops her further.
The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. …
I don't know, Justice Breyer, it sounds like should have published this after you retired.
Examines the development process of such marquee video games as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars, and Destiny, describing the challenges and …
From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: …
Slagar the fox hated Redwall Abbey - its peaceable creatures, its fearless mouse warrior Matthias. He blamed Matthias for the …
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
