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The good Intriguing premise (minor spoiler alert): Dorian Gray stays the same age, while a painting of him grows old and shows the marks upon his soul. ...

The good Very fun read about chasing hackers… Including deep-dives on how to monitor the hacker (printing their sessions on… paper… seriously), actual sc...

The good Cute story with fun characters. Interesting exploration of a number of topics: AI, body autonomy, slavery, gender. A master-class in empathy, fri...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

The good Beautiful writing. Tragic story. Powerful themes: sacrificing for your children and then trying to live life through them; trying to fit in a soc...

If you like xkcd, you’ll probably like this book. There’s lots of physics, nerd humor, computer humor, stick figure drawings, math, and so on. Some of the questi...

A nice exploration of the materials that make modern life possible. We take things like glass and stainless steel for granted now, but in reality, these are extra...

A reasonably entertaining young adult novel with simple characters and a simple plot.

This book offers a small amount of solid, valuable advice: The purple cow

The good It’s Thrawn! And Darth Vader! The not so good Thrawn seems to know everything and makes no mistakes, making impossible m...