Wants to read The Colorado Kid
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Reviewed Annihilation
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Finished reading His Dark Materials
Rated Destination Unknown 6/10
Rated Parable of the Sower 10/10
Gripping, grim, plausible near-future dystopia, with little to no paranormal nonsense and lots of intense, concrete depictions of life in a society that has spiraled out of control. Well told and a pretty fast read.
Wants to read The Organ Grinders
Rated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 8/10
Finished reading Saevus Corax Gets Away with Murder
Rated Hickory Dickory Dock 6/10
Rated Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud 10/10
Everyone should read this book. It's a very clear, very compelling story of how the financial industry essentially stole millions of homes through a mix of "innovative" maneuvers, sloppiness, malign negligence and outright fraud, and never faced any consequences. It's like the Big Short, but from the perspective of the people who got screwed over, not the people who got away with the money. Dayen writes vividly about the people who exposed and fought the banks and mortgage servicers, and he makes extremely complicated stuff accessible even as he tells the human story. Barely anybody in the finance industry, the justice system or the political system, from the White House to county courthouses, comes off looking good. Highly recommended, though frustrating and sad.
Rated Right as Rain 6/10
a good, ever-so-slightly trashy DC-based mystery.
Reviewed Unsong
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Reviewed The Fall and Rise of China
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Finished reading Saevus Corax Captures the Castle
Rated Children of Time 9/10
Bit disappointed by the end, but I would die for those spiders
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Wants to read night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Reviewed Learning the Human Game - Original Live Recordings on the Tao of Philosophy
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Reviewed Summary of The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
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Reviewed You Belong to the Universe Lib/E: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
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