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Review by alex_ellermann - Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality Ben Orlin's "Math with Bad Drawings" reads like a collection blog posts, edited and refined fo...

'Math with Bad Drawings' delivers as advertised. It has math. It has bad drawings. If you find that sort of thing appealing, you've come to the right book.
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For the record, I’m for peace on earth and goodwill to men.

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Review by alex_ellermann - Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon's Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day 'Stay off My Operating Table' commits the three cardinal sins of the health and fitness book: ...

This book came strongly recommended by a fit friend. Nevertheless, it was not for me.

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If I have to read your manifesto to appreciate your art, then your art sucks.

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Review by alex_ellermann - The Willows I admit, I'm having trouble writing about 'The Willows.' I finished it thirty minutes ago, yet...

It's 119 years old. It hits as if it were written yesterday.
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Well, all right. Query letters (and, in some cases, formal proposals) sent. Now, we wait.
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Review by alex_ellermann - Americana: and Other Poems I loved 'Americana: and Other Poems.' I'm still buzzing about it. This is the first volume of ...

Updike's poems read as if they were written directly to me.

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Review by alex_ellermann - The Sound and the Fury I am furious with Vintage Publishing's "Complete, Definitive Edition" of William Faulkner's 'T...

Reading 'The Sound and the Fury' was a miserable experience.
It didn't have to be.

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Review by alex_ellermann - The History of Chocolate 'The History of Chocolate' delivers as advertised.  I quite liked it.  Rather than deliver a d...

If you like chocolate and have an Audible account, this one is a no-brainer.
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“What’s today, my fine fellow?”

“Today? Why, it’s Bicycle Maintenance Day!”

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Review by alex_ellermann - On Basilisk Station ‘On Basilisk Station’ is a light sci-fi actioner specifically modeled on C.S. Forester’s Horat...

‘On Basilisk Station’ begs the question, “Why read a Horatio Hornblower knockoff when you could read Horatio Hornblower?”
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Review by alex_ellermann - Snuff Oh, man. I loved ‘Snuff.’ I’ve been putting off Terry Pratchett. I enjoyed ‘Good Omens,’ his c...

'Snuff' was my first Discworld novel. I am all the way in.
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Review by alex_ellermann - Fatale, Vol. 4: Pray for Rain ‘Fatale, vol. 4’ is my least favorite collection of the series.

I consider Volumes 1 and 2 no...

When your least favorite volume of a series still rates four stars, you know Brubaker & Phillips are cooking with gas.
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Review by alex_ellermann - System Collapse ‘System Collapse’ is the weakest outing in Martha Wells’s “Murderbot” series.For a book about ...

Wells’s most recent Murderbot book, ‘System Collapse,’ is the worst of the series.
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American Pickle Council Can’t Believe ‘Drink Pickle Juice’ Stunt Actually Worked — Mark Remy's DumbRunner.com Drunken wager pays off for trade group.
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Crime headline of the day.

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"Song Sung Blue" is about as cool as Neil Diamond: that is to say, not cool at all. Rather, it's earnest and heartfelt. My wife & I chose this as a compromise. We laughed. We cried. This is a surprisingly good movie.

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March was a great month for reading. The best of the bunch? It was a dead heat between the raw prose beauty of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" (1940) and the whole-brain engagement and wonder of James S.A. Corey's "The Mercy of Gods" (2024).
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Audible's Spring Sale is on. I just bought nearly $90 in audiobooks, and I haven't even finished my morning coffee.
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Well, all right. After twelve drafts, my manuscript is as good and I can make it. Time to shop it around and see whether anyone bites.
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I finally caught up with Issue #1. Oh, yeah. I am all the way in.

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Hang on: @ryannorth.ca is writing Flash? Sold.

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Review by alex_ellermann - Farewell, My Lovely Books like ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ are why I love reading books.  I went in expecting a tightly ...

I am going to read every single thing Raymond Chandler has ever written.
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Review by alex_ellermann - Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom This is the definitive Douglass biography. From Douglass’s birth into slavery through his dec...

Every American should read ‘Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.’
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Review by alex_ellermann - Grown 'Grown' begins in medias res.  The narrator awakens.  She's on the floor.  She's covered in bl...

You'll be surprised to learn that I am not the target audience for 'Grown.'

But that's not right. Everyone is the target audience for 'Grown.' It's an outstanding novel.
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First flowers of spring beginning to bud.

First flowers of spring beginning to bud.

It's the most wonderful time
Of the year

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Review by alex_ellermann - Forge of Darkness I give up.I've been reading this book for 13 days, and I'm only 250 pages in. I normally read...

Forge of Darkness. Here's my review:

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Review by alex_ellermann - Gardens of the Moon 'Gardens of the Moon' was not for me.   I have a 10% rule: if a novel isn't working by the tim...

This is my second Steven Erikson book. It's my second DNF. Erickson's style is, simply put, not for me.
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When you fire your experts and hire based on loyalty and Instagram followership, this is what you get.

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Review by alex_ellermann - I Am Pilgrim DNF.  The protagonist just made a credible threat of sexual violence, against an innocent thir...

I DNFed 'I am Pilgrim.' When a protagonist uses the threat of sexual violence to further his objectives, I'm out.
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