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63% complete! Phil in SF has read 19 of 30 books.
After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna leaves Boston for the wilds of New …
Here in New Mexico, Travis, we Hispanos are the majority. Our state constitution has not one, not two, but three different provisions that protect our right to speak Spanish.
— Hollow Beasts by Alisa Lynn Valdés (Jodi Luna, #1) (Page 14)
The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your …
The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.
During the first two decades …
The author proffers that dams are the cause of earthquakes, nuclear proliferation & radiation poisoning, and the devastation of wildlife and culture. He's not wrong exactly, but he presents everything from the worst possible case position while also arguing that dam benefits are meager at best. In other words, if you are already convinced, this book will solidify your position. And if you are worried about dams but not already convinced, you'll have a lot of "but what about ...?" type questions that you want answered. As I did.
The book is clearly written for the already convinced, because it includes a chapter on how to remove a dam. The chapter includes lengthy steps all the way from first organizing to actual dam removal. As an overview of just how much work goes into dam removal, it's a great chapter. As an actual how-to, people will need a lot more …
The author proffers that dams are the cause of earthquakes, nuclear proliferation & radiation poisoning, and the devastation of wildlife and culture. He's not wrong exactly, but he presents everything from the worst possible case position while also arguing that dam benefits are meager at best. In other words, if you are already convinced, this book will solidify your position. And if you are worried about dams but not already convinced, you'll have a lot of "but what about ...?" type questions that you want answered. As I did.
The book is clearly written for the already convinced, because it includes a chapter on how to remove a dam. The chapter includes lengthy steps all the way from first organizing to actual dam removal. As an overview of just how much work goes into dam removal, it's a great chapter. As an actual how-to, people will need a lot more than a book chapter.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone write gorgeously, but I had trouble following the story.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
And with this book, I think I've added every book I know I've ever finished to SFBA.club, with the exception of Bibles & cookbooks.
When I tell people I attended a fundamentalist Christian school, I was not kidding. "Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards" was assigned reading in elementary school. We were taught that dinosaurs and humans lived together. We were taught that fossils were tricks of the devil to test our faith. They had us read this book to cement the anti-science teaching.
I can't tell you now exactly when I broke away from that. After 8th grade, I transferred to a Jesuit high school. While Christian, the Jesuits are far more science based than the fundamentalists. By my last year of high school, I was clearly not with the original program.
Duane Gish is a creationist who is famous for his nutso views and the Gish Gallop method of debating. …
And with this book, I think I've added every book I know I've ever finished to SFBA.club, with the exception of Bibles & cookbooks.
When I tell people I attended a fundamentalist Christian school, I was not kidding. "Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards" was assigned reading in elementary school. We were taught that dinosaurs and humans lived together. We were taught that fossils were tricks of the devil to test our faith. They had us read this book to cement the anti-science teaching.
I can't tell you now exactly when I broke away from that. After 8th grade, I transferred to a Jesuit high school. While Christian, the Jesuits are far more science based than the fundamentalists. By my last year of high school, I was clearly not with the original program.
Duane Gish is a creationist who is famous for his nutso views and the Gish Gallop method of debating. Read this book for some really entertaining B.S. about dinosaurs.
One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. …
Looking forward to reading this.
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by …
The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.
During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
I most enjoyed the Santlofer, Morrow and Arellano stories.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
"Too Near Real", Jonathan Safran Foer
protagonist is some sort of sex pest put out to pasture by his university and retreats into the virtual world of Google Street View.
"Excavation", Edmund White & Michael Carroll
Dita's much younger husband Scott goes missing, so she has his former writing teacher and mentor come to Asbury Park to "help find him". But mostly she just wants someone to tell her she didn't do anything wrong.
"Run Kiss Daddy", Joyce Carol Oates
Reno brings his new, much younger wife Marlena and her two kids Devra and Kevin to Paraquarry Lake where he renovates a cabin and ruminates on his previous failed marriage and family.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
"A Bag For Nicholas", Hirsh Sawhney
Shezad Ansari gets a call from his ex-wife that he can have a job as a musician for a movie if he can make an audition. But Shez decides to make a weed delivery. So many things conspire to make getting to the audition an ordeal.
"Glass Eels", Jeffrey Ford
Len & Marty know a good spot to harvest eels for the black market. They figure a good score will ease their lives.
"Meadowlands Spike", Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
A low level mobster decides to come clean about how he killed Jimmy Hoffa and got away with it.
"Kettle Run", Robert Arellano
Ernie and his friend Pervert drive to a secluded place to smoke weed. Keith & Tull, Ernie's dealers, show up looking for missing weed. Interspersed with bits of story about how Ernie got himself into the situation.
Really enjoyed this …
"A Bag For Nicholas", Hirsh Sawhney
Shezad Ansari gets a call from his ex-wife that he can have a job as a musician for a movie if he can make an audition. But Shez decides to make a weed delivery. So many things conspire to make getting to the audition an ordeal.
"Glass Eels", Jeffrey Ford
Len & Marty know a good spot to harvest eels for the black market. They figure a good score will ease their lives.
"Meadowlands Spike", Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
A low level mobster decides to come clean about how he killed Jimmy Hoffa and got away with it.
"Kettle Run", Robert Arellano
Ernie and his friend Pervert drive to a secluded place to smoke weed. Keith & Tull, Ernie's dealers, show up looking for missing weed. Interspersed with bits of story about how Ernie got himself into the situation.
Really enjoyed this story too.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
"Wunderlich" Sheila Kohler
An elderly suburban wife finds that the massages from Gabriel Wunderlich spawn a renaissance in her life. The cost?
"Atlantis", Richard Burgin
After his restless girlfriend nags him to plan for them to leave the house, druggie Stacy thinks it would be a good idea for them to visit Atlantic City, where both of them have history.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
"The Enigma Of Grover's Mill", Bradford Morrow
Wyatt grows up in Grover's Mill, the city of H.G. Wells and Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds. His father, a Great War veteran, can't face another war and kills himself rather than fight aliens. Soon his mother and grandfather die. Wyatt is convinced that Franklin, a boarder who comes to live with his grandmother and him, is an alien who survived when his s side lost the invasion.
