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April 2, 2009
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
If i were a YA person, this book would totally have blown me away. As a not-YA person, I am really really impressed and really like where this book gets into. A good friend once went on an anti arphid tirade many years […]
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March 25, 2009
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was a spinningly fast read and a really fun romp. Here i had thought that coming of age stories were really getting a bit trite and overdone, and Gaiman manages to give me exactly the kind of giggly anticipation where I can’t […]
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January 25, 2009
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was awesome. I’ve been telling people all about it while i’ve been reading because it’s been both amusing and insighful and inspiring. This was a great way to look at history.
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December 28, 2008
Y: The Last Man Vol. 10: Whys And Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
ok, i kept putting off finishing this series for stupid reasons, but really because i didn’t want it to end… and now it’s ended and i’m a little sad and emotional about it. Ends as strong […]
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October 16, 2008
Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
My review
rating: 5 of 5 starsOk, let’s see… I read about book 2 in this series on io9 and decided i really needed to read it. I am someone who doesn’t always appreciate very tech-y scifi, but this was excellent and compelling, and i […]
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May 20, 2008
As a follow up to yesterday’s post… I currently have in my possession, on loan from the Harvard library, volume 6 part 5 of Science and Civilization of China. This particular volume was published well after the death of Joseph Needham, but nonetheless, is made from his painstaking research on China.
You may wonder why on […]
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May 19, 2008
I am heading over to Booksmith in Coolidge Corner this evening to go see a talk on Simon Winchester’s new book, The Man Who Loved China. I’m pretty excited about this since I’ve read two of his other books and liked them a whole lot, especially The River at the Center of the World. I […]
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March 25, 2008
i finished reading a book last night, the first novel i’ve read in a very long time, and definitely the first something “for fun” that i’ve read in years that wasn’t a comic book and didn’t somehow relate to my field of study.
Boy Toy is a story about high school experiences, surviving abuse, and growing […]
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October 8, 2005
Prof. Walter Willett is an interesting doctor who manages to talk about health, nutrition, and balance in great terms while backing things up with data from some of the longest running nutriotional and epidemiological studies conducted. I learned an awful lot about what to eat and what not to eat… and what precautions are […]
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October 8, 2005
This was one of the few Murakami books that I could nail down in my local library. It seems this man is hot hot hot.
Anyhow… i liked this book, though not so much as Dance Dance Dance. Why? Well… I just never really cared for the main character… rather i developed […]
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